Women; Students; Universities & colleges; Young adults; Automobiles; Trees
Young female students shown in various poses: laying on the school lawn, standing posed with one foot on the school lawn, standing in front of an automobile, sitting on an automobile, and climbing a tree on campus.
Young African-American boy stands facing the camera while standing on a weight measure scale. He is wearing a white gown and has his right hand on the base weight located on a horizontal bar. The device can also measure his height.
Men; Soldiers; Heroes; Government officials; Government facilities; Stairways; Doors & doorways
York as Chairman of the Fentress County Selective Service Board leaves his office at the end of the day. A hand-lettered plywood sign on the outside of the building designates the office and the chairman of the board.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Yearbook of the Company 420, Tennessee SP-12 in District C of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Bristol, Tennessee. There is a history of Company 420, as well as photographs of of the camp facilities and activities, including the mess hall,...
Radio broadcasting; Singing; Folk singers; Musicians; Women; Musical instruments; Guitars; Mandolins
WSM Singers at the Square Dance, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. They are holding their musical instruments and singing into the WSM microphone.
WSM Grand Ole Opry performance on stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. A sign reading "A service of National Life and Accident Insurance" is in the background on a barn stage prop.
Radio broadcasting; Singing; Folk singers; Folk music; Musicians; Musical instruments; Banjos; Guitars; Violins
WSM Country Band and Singers, at the Square Dance, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. They have musical instruments in hand and are performing around a microphone.
Written on U. S. Christian Commission stationery to "Dear Brother" from A. J., J. A., and W. T. Easley. "We went under a flag of truce and I can tell you John it did not look right to see the Jonnys and Yankees all mixed up together Looks like war...
Written on U. S. Christian Commission stationery and titled "Horid Disaster." On the back of the letter he writes "lost, lost, all is lost." This letter explains the death of Sol's brother-in-law, Henry Marshall Misemer and two brothers, Levi and...
Written on the back of John Hare Bond's checks, this story recounts Fielding Hurst's harassment of West Tennessee planter Uncle Lewis "Luke" Bond. Hurst, a rare Unionist in the region, raised units of scouts and cavalry. They patrolled Federal...
Wooden stick, possibly for measuring powder charges, inscribed with "George Norman Caswell Artillery", a Nashville, Tennessee, unit that served with Gen. Felix Zollicoffer at Mill Springs, Kentucky, and "January 12, 1862"
Willis Crawford Rushing (1826-1916) was a Civil War veteran living in Benton County in 1897. He is pictured here with his family. Seated, left to right: Lively Etta Rushing Fry (1863-1943), Ernest E. Fry (1868-1937), Sophia Ann Rushing...
