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- Plowing with a team of mules
- Plowing; Mules; Muleteers; Farms; Croplands; Outbuildings; Farm life; Haystacks; Agricultural facilities; Barns; Agricultural laborers; Agricultural machinery & implements
- Young man in the foreground plowing with a team of three mules. The background is filled with a haystack, farm buildings, and Wilson County farmland.
- Nineteenth Century Agricultural Resources
- The Gang, Summer 1928
- 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.
- Fisk University Scrapbook
- Women dipping water
- Women; Bonnets; Clothing & dress; Children; Laundry
- Women wearing bonnets are lined up getting ready to take a cup of water from a bucket. They have their hands resting on the person's shoulders in front of them. The house in the background has a covered, attached structure sheltering a cistern. A...
- Miers River Photo Collection
- Photograph of William Henry Palmer with his GAR medallion
- William Henry Palmer with his Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) medallion. Palmer was born November 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in April 1861 and served in the 14th...
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Man sitting on Texas deck of "City of Memphis"
- Steamboats; Men; Ship captains
- White-bearded stout man wearing captain's hat and sitting in a chair on the Texas deck of the steamboat "City of Memphis". The Texas Deck, a long and narrow cabin for officers, was located on a raised section over the skylights of a steamboat....
- Miers River Photo Collection
- Civilian rifle
- Walnut, half-stalk civilian rifle .36 to .38 caliber with a decorative star owned by the Baxter family.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Photograph of veteran Alexander Brabson Walker and family
- Walker served as a private in Co. B, 12th (Day's) Tenn. Cav. Bn., CSA.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- End of bridge at Chateau-Thierry blown up by Americans during German drive
- World War, 1914-1918; Bridges; Ruins; Cities & towns; War destruction & pillage
- View of a bombed out city in France. A large crater is visible near where the end of the bridge once stood.
- Tennessee in World War I
- Incline Railway up Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tenn.
- Lookout Mountain (Tenn.); Railroads; Inclined railroads
- View from bottom of incline at Lookout Mountain as railway car begins ascent toward pinnacle. Battlefield Station is in view.
- Tennessee Postcard Collection
- Rose of Sharon variation quilt
- Variation of a Rose of Sharon applique quilt. The quilt was made by Letitia Levine Smith. She made it as a wedding quilt for her marriage to Ed Walter.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- USS Vindicator
- Steamboats; Gunboats; Sailors; Navies; Vessels; Naval warfare; Warships
- US Navy warship, the USS Vindicator, with soldiers on the top deck in front of the wheel boxes and on the bow. There is a cannon on the stern and three smaller boats tied to the USS Vindicator.
- Civil War Soldier Photographs
- Union staff officer's coat button
- United State eagle and shield insignia button manufactured by Steele & Johnson. "Extra Quality" is stamped on the back of the button.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Pvt. George Nathaniel Crunk's United Confederate Veterans uniform
- United Confederate Veteran reunion uniform belonging to Pvt. George Nathaniel Crunk, Co. F, 4th (McLemore's) Cavalry. Crunk was from Williamson County.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Shenkel artillery shell fragment
- Union Shenkel artillery shell fragment found at Hoover's Gap in Beech Grove, Tenn. Iron conical shell with hole at top with screw-on cap.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Percussion cap box and caps
- Union percussion cap box and Hicks primers No. 2 caps.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Union buttons
- Union buttons
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Unidentified young woman and infant with a large quilt
- Women; Infants; Quilts
- Unidentified young woman holding an infant and standing in front of a large hanging quilt. The quilt is a Crazy quilt pattern.
- Quilts
- Unidentified Federal officer in a kepi, seated with a sword
- Soldiers; Military uniforms
- Unidentified seated officer in blue, wearing a kepi and holding a sword in his left hand. His right hand in tucked in his tunic.
- Civil War Soldier Photographs
- Forage house
- Military life; People; Wooden buildings; Historic buildings; Storehouses; Equipment & supplies; Railroad tracks
- Unfinished forage house in Nashville, Tennessee, with a group of officers of the Quartermaster Department. An inscription beneath the photograph reads, "Forage House on N. and NW. RR. Nashville, Tenn. - DIMENSIONS. 1st Sec 904 by 156 ft wide; 2d...
- Civil War Soldier Photographs
- U. S. Springfield bayonet and scabbard
- U. S. Springfield bayonet with scabbard. Place of manufacture unknown. The scabbard was made after 1864.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee