Document lists prices to be paid by Confederate armies when buying or impressing goods such as wheat, flour, corn, bacon, beef, sugar, candles, soap, and many others. It includes the 5-year average for prices of goods preceding the war, the...
Broadside promoting the Maury County Colored Fair that was scheduled for November 8, 1883. Participants were urged to take the train from Fayetteville, Lincoln County, or Lewisburg, Marshall County, in order to get to the fair. The cost of the...
Soldiers; Marching; Farms; Mules; Dogs; Swine; Roosters; Arrivals & departures; Families; Farewells; World War, 1914-1918
Comical drawing in which a soldier with rifle on his shoulder marches off to World War I down a dirt road and leaves in the background mother, father, sweetheart, a dog, and a mule sticking its head out of a barn. American flags are being waved by...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front view of Hickman County High School in Centerville. The picture shows a long brick structure with two floors and a basement. Multiple windows can be seen. The building has a unique entrance with a cupola. A low fence and light pole stand...
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; African Americans - Tennessee
Front and side views of the Hohenwald Colored School in Lewis County. Originally a church, the school has a bell tower, three long windows, and a front door.
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Brief note to the office of Gov. Prentice Cooper by Lt. Col. Wylie G. Borum, State Guard officer and Military Aide to the Governor, suggesting gold sealed stickers to be placed in the windows of firms who employed State Guard members. The...
Military parades & ceremonies; Universities & colleges; Military maneuvers; Marching
Long procession of State Guardsmen marching through Cookeville on Sunday after the maneuvers. A sign pointing to Tennessee Technological University is in the background.
"An Ordinance for Circumscribing the Counties of Greene and Hawkins and Laying Out Two New Counties" is the first resolution appearing in the bound collection of acts passed by the Southwest Territory. The act is written in script and is four pages...
Three Alsatian women in native dress standing near a canopy of trees. The woman on the left has her hand on a wooden chair. The women are wearing boldly patterned dresses and have oversized bows in their hair.
