Clothing and dress; Bloomers; Women; Humorous pictures
Black and white view of three women with backs turned toward the camera, showing their dress bustles. Surrounded by color drawing of a picture frame and a camera on a tripod.
Four-page program for a memoral recital to honor Gen. Robert E. Lee. The recital is to be held at Christ Church on January 18, 1914. The program lists Lee's birth and death dates along with hymns, sacred readings and a detailed order of events.
United States Bureau of Pensions form No. 780,434 issued to Lottie Waldrup, widow of Union soldier William Waldrup, Co. F., 6th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. The form states that Lottie will receive $12 per month beginning in March 1914, payable...
Crowell served in Co. H, 22nd Penn. Cav. Regt. and Co. H, 3rd Regt., Penn. Prov. Cav. He received a monthly pension between $24 to $30 from 1914 to 1919.
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.
Broadsides; Political campaigns; Political elections; Politicians; Presidential elections; Electoral college; Delegations
Campaign poster for William Gibbs McAdoo in the Presidential primary election of 1924. The poster lists delegates for District 7 (Davidson County, Tennessee). Also included is a photograph of McAdoo.
Questionnaire response of Confederate soldier Lee Sadler, completed in 1922 when he was 79. He states the value of his property and his family's property before, during, and after the war and whether they owned slaves; he comments on the social...
Civil War claim of Thomas J. Hill, filed by widow, Laura A. Hill. $8,850 is claimed. Hill claims that Union soldiers took hogs, cattle, corn, and other items.
Clipping from an unnamed newspaper recounting a reunion held at the Battle of Franklin. "The surviving remnants of the Blue and the Gray met yesterday, in comradeship and the bonds of brotherhood, on the most desperate field that their enmity...
Shadowbox containing a carte-de-visite of William Churchill Kirkland (January 10, 1839 - January 6, 1926). It also contains a 1914 reunion ribbon for a joint Confederate and Federal reunion. Kirkland enlisted at Corinth, Mississippi, on June 2,...
This handwritten account of the Battle of Shiloh was recorde by Pvt. Thomas J. Watkins, Co. H, 4th Tenn. Inf. (Neely's), CSA, 52 years after the battle. The account ends abruptly after 15 pages. The donor contributed a transcript (see additional...
Photographic portrait of the Pierson family taken in front of the family home in the Bunker Hill community. James Lafayette Pierson, pictured in the center, served in Co. F, 5th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA.
Letter from David Harts Jr., to J. A. Coble providing an account of the death of James Coble (J. A.'s father), during the Civil War. James Coble, 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA, was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in...
Letter from Jesse Coble to his nephew, J. A. Coble, concerning the death of James Coble (J. A.'s father) during the Civil War. James Coble, 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA, was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in December...
Letter from Mrs. S. F. O'Guin to her brother, J. A. Coble, concerning the death of their father, James Coble, during the Civil War. James Coble, 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA, was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in...
Photograph of James Coble's grave marker accompanied by the transcript of an article detailing Coble's death. He was a membe of the 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA. Coble was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in December...
Account of the Battle of Shiloh written by William T. Rasbury (born 1914) who was about 75 or 80 years old when it was written. His great aunt, Lydia Catherine Rasbury, told him the story.
Account of the Battle of Fort Donelson written by William T. Rasbury (born 1914). The story was told to him by his great grandfather, John Allen Walker.
