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- Old Lester Colored School and Church
- Schools; Rural schools; Segregation; Churches; Bell towers
- Wooden church building used as an African-American school. In the front corner is a bell tower.
- Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
- 30th Infantry Division radio operators
- Communication devices; Trench warfare; Military uniforms; Military personnel; Soldiers; Radios; World War 1914-1918; War
- Wireless station and operators working in front-line trenches during a battle.
- Tennessee in World War I
- Boy carving wood fox
- Boys; Handicraft; Woodworking; Woodwork; Foxes; Men
- Winifred Rankhore of the Pleasant Hill Academy carving a wood fox with a chisel.
- Arts, Crafts & Folklife Photos
- Windows on the 5th Avenue side of the Ryman Auditorium
- Auditoriums; Concert halls; Historic buildings; Tabernacles (Buildings); Architectural elements; Stone carving; Windows
- Windows on the west (5th Avenue) side of the Ryman Auditorium. Photograph is labeled, "Architectural detail #5."
- Ryman Auditorium
- Windows and doorway on the 4th Avenue side of the Ryman Auditorium
- Auditoriums; Concert halls; Historic buildings; Tabernacles (Buildings); Architectural elements; Stone carving; Windows
- Windows and doorway on the east (4th Avenue) side of the Ryman Auditorium. Photograph labeled "Architectural detail #7."
- Ryman Auditorium
- William Jennings Bryan
- Lawyers
- William Jennings Bryan, lead prosecutor in the Scopes Trial, sitting at a table and chair.
- The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
- Reelfoot Lake, near Dyersburg, Tenn.
- Lakes & ponds; New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812; Trees; Cypresses
- View of the lake and numerous Cypress trees.
- Tennessee Postcard Collection
- Wounded and attendants at a first-aid dressing station
- Soldiers; Military personnel; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Helmets; Military medicine; Medical equipment & supplies; Litters; War casualties; Canteens (Beverage containers); Gas masks; Campaigns & battles; War; World War, 1914-1918; Barbed wire
- Unidentified members of the American Expeditionary Force transporting a wounded comrade on the field.
- Tennessee in World War I
- Savannah School
- Schools; Flags; Flagpoles
- Two-story brick structure divided into three sections. The trim along the front of the building appears to be late Art Deco. Over the center doorway is a sign reading "Elementary School." An American flag flies atop the roof and a chimney can be...
- Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
- Correspondence between Mrs. John Trotwood Moore and Miss Susie Gentry
- Two letters of correspondence between Mrs. John Trotwood Moore and her cousin, Susie Gentry. The first item of correspondence is from Susie Gentry to Mary Daniel Moore, written from Franklin, Tennessee, on May 28, 1934. In her correspondence,...
- Quilts
- Grand Junction School
- Flags; Flagpoles; Graduation ceremonies; Students; Schools
- Two large brick buildings comprise the campus of Grand Junction School. The two-story structure at right appears to be for classrooms, while the one at left appears to be a gymnasium or field house. A line of people, possibly in caps and gowns,...
- Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
- Tintype of an African American woman
- Tintype of an unidentified African American woman in an apron.
- Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
- Ticket to the Hon. Roscoe Conklin Simmons speech
- Auditoriums; Concert halls; Historic buildings; Tabernacles (Buildings); Tickets
- Ticket for a speech given at the Ryman Auditorium by well-known African American orator, the Hon. Roscoe Conklin Simmons.
- Ryman Auditorium
- Missouri State Guard Colonel Meriwether Jeff Thompson
- Photographs; Soldiers; Generals; Military officers; Military uniforms; Uniforms
- Three-quarter length portrait of Missouri State Guard Colonel Meriwether Jeff Thompson in uniform.
- Civil War Soldier Photographs
- Joe L. Weakley Sr. in uniform, American Zouave soldier
- Soldiers; Military uniforms
- Three-quarter length portrait of Joe Weakley Sr., believed to be a "Dunlap Zouave." He wears a traditional Zouave uniform with kepi and has an infantry sword on his belt.
- Civil War Soldier Photographs
- Proposed designs for gates and stone fence at Chattanooga Cemetery
- Cemeteries; Stone walls; Gates
- Three separate ink design drawings contained on one piece of coated fabric that relay sectioning, framing, and elevation in depicting proposed gates and stone fencing for the Chattanooga Cemetery. Scale is 1/2 inch to 1 foot.
- Civil War Visual Culture
- Quilts hanging on a line
- Quilts; Quilting
- Three quilts hanging from a clothesline in front of a house.
- Quilts
- Letter about rumors of a new Vietnamese campaign
- Three page letter from Thunder IV (Highway 13 was nicknamed "Thunder Road" by US troops). "Our base camp (Lai Khe) has been hit daily by mortars and RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] rounds. Even in daylight Charlie hits Lai Khe." Letter includes...
- Chistopher D. Ammons
- Letter discussing Ammons's command of an 8-man squad
- Three page letter begins, "This is our eighth day in the boonies, and tomorrow we might go back to Lai Khe." He writes of having been a squad leader for several days now ("8 men including myself") because of the illness of another sergeant.
- Chistopher D. Ammons
- 301st Tank Battalion
- World War, 1914-1918; War; Tanks (Military Science); Flags
- Three hundred and first Tank Battalion. America's heavies going into action at Souplet on the morning of October 17, 1918. Note the American flag flying from one of the tanks. St. Souplet, Nord, France.
- Tennessee in World War I