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  • 4th Avenue entrance to the Ryman Auditorium
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    Auditoriums; Concert halls; Historic buildings; Tabernacles (Buildings); Architectural elements; Stone carving; Doors & doorways
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    Entrance on the east (4th Avenue) side of the Ryman Auditorium. Next to the entrance is a sign which reads: "WSM 'Grand Ole Opry' Tours Tickets On Sale At Box Office." Entrance is now covered by 2-story addition built in 1994. Photograph labeled...
  • Ryman Auditorium
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  • [Hale School] Lillard School
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    Schools; Rural schools; Educational facilities
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    Listed as the Lillard School in the State Board of Education Records, this photograph has been identified by Maryville natives as the William J. Hale School. The building is a large imposing brick structure situated on a hill. At the time the...
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • "Jim Crow [a horse] will stand this season at my stable" 1885
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    Broadsides; Horses
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    Advertisement by W. N. Gill offering the stud services of two horses named Jim Crow and Jack Bourbon. The sires and dams of both horses are mentioned.
  • Throwaway History - The Broadside in American Culture
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  • "The Home Light for Him," poem by Frank L. Stanton
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    Marriage; Poetry
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    The poem, published in the Atlanta Constitution, is subtitled "A Song of Love's Triumph Over Sergeant Alvin York." The author is Frank L. Stanton.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • A Shin-plaster Candidate. A Hard-money Candidate
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    Broadsides; Money
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    "Rag money" was paper currency made from linen and cotton fibers. A "shin-plaster" was printed small change. "Hard money" was coins made of a precious metal. This broadside was attempting to popularize these terms to be used as descriptions of...
  • Throwaway History - The Broadside in American Culture
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  • Alvin C. York house with surrounding landscape
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    Housing; Barns; Farms
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    The Alvin C. York home taken from the side, showing the farmland, barn, and nearby property. A wire fence can be seen in front of the property.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Alvin C. York story -- a mountain man at 3-Forks-o-Wolf
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    Rural areas; Country life
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    A man with a long stick (4 or more feet) in his hands sits on the stoop of a rough wooden cabin. He wears frayed and patched overalls with a shirt, suit jacket, and hat. His left shoe appears to be untied.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Alvin C. York story -- cave with spring
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    Caves; Springs; Water
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    The opening of a cave with a spring running from its mouth. There appears to be some man-made dam or similar object in the water on one side.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Annual Lincoln's Day Birthday Address
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    Pamphlets; Leaflets; Public speaking; Meetings; Birthdays; Students
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    Program advertising the "Annual Lincoln's Day Birthday Address" to be given at the African-American hospital in Clarksville.
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Burnside single-shot breechloading percussion carbine
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    Named for and patented by Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside, this Civil War carbine is a Model Type IV, .54 caliber cavalry piece.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Captain Guynemer in "Old Charles"
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    Air operations; Airplanes; Air warfare; Fighter pilots; Guynemer, Georges, 1894-1917; World War, 1914-1918
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    Captain Georges Marie Ludovic Guynemer sitting in his airplane named the "Vieux Charles."
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Confederate Monument in Bolivar
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    Monuments; Trees
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    Confederate Monument in Bolivar. The monument is a stone obelisk carved to resemble a draped flag and topped with an urn-shaped decoration.; Text at the top declares the monument to be "one of the first erected in the South." Commercial...
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Confederate Monument in Lewisburg
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    Monuments; Trees; Soldiers
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    Confederate Monument in Lewisburg. The monument consists of a bronze figure atop a carved limestone base.
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Correspondence from Joseph Gerald Branch to Mary Jones (Polk) Branch, March 16, 1864
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    Civil Wars; War
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    Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife, Mary, in Maury County, Tennessee. He is concerned that his letters are not reaching her, and he observes, "What is property or anything else compared to one's...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Correspondence from Mary Minerva Rutledge to her sister, October 9, 1862
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    Civil Wars; War; Correspondence
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    Letter from Mary Minerva Rutledge to her sister concerning the health of an individual named "Green," the mischievous activities of "Lincolnites," and her husband Robert Rutledge.
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Correspondence from Sarah Hamilton to Thomas "Tommie" H. Williams, January 25, 1863
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    Social values; Domestic life; Soldiers; Military life; Military personnel; Military organizations; Armies; War; Cities & towns
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    Letter from Sarah Hamilton to Thomas Williams. She discusses patients at the war hospital in Columbia, rumors of the Yankees at Franklin and concern for her son, "Tommie."
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Cul-Car-Mac, the Falls of Fall Creek, near Smithville, Tennessee
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    Waterfalls; Streams; Cliffs; Lithography; Books
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    The falls of Fall Creek in Dekalb County, Tennessee. There is one man standing at the top of the falls, while two men are at the foot of the falls.
  • Nineteenth Century Agricultural Resources
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  • Cultivated fields near Springfield, Tennessee
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    Croplands; Haystacks
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    Arable land showing haystacks and lines of trees in the distance.
  • Nineteenth Century Agricultural Resources
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  • Daisy and Pearl Ryman
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    Women; Hats; Dresses
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    Photograph of Daisy Ryman Coggins and Pearl Ryman Coggins, daughters of Thomas Green Ryman. Text on the back of the photograph states that Daisy's Ward Seminary diploma was made out to Marguerite Ryman, although she was always called "Daisy." The...
  • Ryman Auditorium
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  • Deadman's hill
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    War destruction & pillage; War damage; World War, 1914-1918
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    Debris (helmet, shoes, skulls, etc.) scattered on a hill with the limb of a tree in the distance giving the eerie feel of desolation and destruction.
  • Tennessee in World War I

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