British-made Enfield rifle musket with attached bayonet. Lockplate was manufactured at the Tower, London, England. The bayonet was manufactured the United States. The rifle belonged to Amos Griffith. The initials "JA" are carved in the stock.
Belt buckles from Confederate uniforms dug at sites of Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, and Battle of Nashville near Harding Pike and Granny White Pike. Some from Mississippi units; serpent buckles from England.
Enfield rifle marked with Tower of London Arsenal insignia and shortened to carbine length. This gun was probably picked up on the battlefield and shortened to carbine length for use by the Confederate Army.
Silver and glass relish dish and tongs from the family of Richard England. The silver is plated with designs and the glass is engraved with a woman and cherub. "Middletown plate" is engraved on the bottom of the silver plate. Family legend states...
William Strickland's sketch of the wheel and flange of the Great Western Railway. The sketch shows details of the metalwork used in securing the rails. Dimensions of the various bolts and nuts are shown.
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows two images, the first, a bombardier in an American B-17 airplane, and the second, a miserable prisoner of war who appears to be drinking. Mitchener is contrasting the two, and writes, "Then...
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the Sepulchre or Tomb of Caecilia Metella. The sketch shows part of the Appian Way. Strickland gives a short description of the tomb.
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the Tower of Attila at the Villa Pamphyla near Rome. Sketch shows a tower in ruins and a forest in the background.
Barbed wire; Torches; Sculpture; Heads (Anatomy); Reflections; Crowns; Fantasy
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II includes a drawing of the Statue of Liberty. On the top of the page he has written,"Maybe not in reality - but in every dream - "Underneath this heading, he has drawn a picture of a man dreaming...
Small flyer advertising the showing of "Forty Days a King," the coronation festivities of George V of Great Britain, presented by the Kinemacolor Company in America. There is a photograph of the Coronation carriage.
Letter from Arthur H. Harris to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville. He writes of the pervading excitement that has surrounded the 1860 presidential election in his area. Though he is glad the contest is over, he acknowledges the death...
