Shadowbox containing a carte-de-visite of William Churchill Kirkland (January 10, 1839 - January 6, 1926). It also contains a 1914 reunion ribbon for a joint Confederate and Federal reunion. Kirkland enlisted at Corinth, Mississippi, on June 2,...
Tintype of Madison Monroe Wallace (September 19, 1844 - November 13, 1926). Wallace joined the Confederate army in 1862 and served in General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry.
The York Agricultural Institute, showing the front of the school building and several vehicles parked in the drive. York established the institute in Jamestown, the Fentress County seat, in an effort to provide rural children with an education. ...
Large lithographic poster advertising the 1926 Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia. Illustration is of a "flapper-like" woman entwined in an American flag in front of Independence Hall.
Floods; Universities & colleges; Games; Houses; Men; Young adults
Scrapbook page contains three photographs. Upper two show flooded houses in Nashville, 1926. Bottom shows five young men building a human pyramid while others exercise around horizontal bars.
The boys' dormitory, Cottage D, at the Tennessee School for the Deaf with construction drawing to a close. Windows, doors, and front entry steps have all been added within the course of a month's construction, and no construction equipment is...
Schools; Construction; Construction workers; Dormitories; Buildings
Construction nearly complete on Cottage D, the boys' dormitory building, on the campus of the Tennessee School for the Deaf and Dumb. Scaffolding, ramps, and sawhorses give an indication of the flurry of construction activity associated with this...
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932
Front and side views of Sparta Rosenwald Colored School. It is a one-story brick structure with five windows on each side of the front entrance. The yard is bare.
Map showing the proposed route of the Memphis-Nashville-Bristol Highway to be constructed 1911-1913. The map shows all the counties of Tennessee with their county seats, as well as the major railroads through Tennessee. There are advertisements...
A soft-cover catalog offering seeds from the Oliver Tucker Seed Company in Memphis, Tennessee. The front and back cover is in full color. The cover shows a little boy with a horseshow with the motto: "My Daddy Plants Tucker's Lucky Seeds. Tell Your...
A soft cover seed catalog. Both the cover and back page are in color. The cover has a photograph of a cotton field, as well as a photograph of Oliver F. Tucker. Page 3 has a phtograph of Tucker, as well as a listing of the directors of the company....
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Partially dismantled clapboard building set on stacked stones. It had two windows on each side and a small center chimney. Another building sets to the right of the schoolhouse.
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Angled view of a dilapidated two-story wood schoolhouse. The building is surrounded by trees and a wire fence. A bell on a post stands near the entrance.
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front and side views of a one-room schoolhouse built of vertical boards. There is one door at the front and three windows are pictured along the side of the building. Two men stand in the foreground.
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Two entrances flanked by windows are visible in this front view of Mt. Zion Hebrew Colored School. Two white men wearing straw hats are standing in the front yard. In the distance are cattle and trees.
