Interior of the Ryman Auditorium shows stage and seats from right rear. Various signs around the auditorium read "No Smoking," "No Standing," "Grand Ole Opry."
Black & white two-sided document that functions as a reward leaflet, offering 7.500$ for an RPD machine gun, but also serving as a surrender pass. Ammons has written in ink at the top of the front side "picked up in 'Iron Triangle' Jan. 5, 1968."...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Forests and forestry
Six African American Civilian Conservation Corps recruits thinning trees and clearing brush along an unknown freeway. They are stacking trimmed branches and bushes into a flatbed truck on the road.
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,...
One-sheet certificate of enlistment for Dennis Morgan, "a Colored man whom W. H. Morgan claims as his slave, April 5, 1864." Certificate includes Morgan's age and physical description, as well as the signature of L. E. Davis, First Sergeant, 17th...
Original members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Photograph shows 5 male members and seven female members. The title says: "The Jubilee Singers, Original Company from Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., 1871-1882, Eleventh Season."
Medical education; Dental education; Medical students; Universities & colleges; Laboratory schools
Card advertising the thirteenth anniversary of the creation of Meharry Medical College. The ceremony was to be held at the Masonic Threatre in Nashville.
Cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of a slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and...
Cover depicts portraits of four 1896 presidential candidates positioned at each corner of the page with the American flag announcing elections in which the Republican, Democrat, Prohibition and Populist parties were represented. Portraits are...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front and side views of Bartlett School in Hardeman County. The one-room clapboard structure served as an elementary school for African American children.
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
One-story brick structure with five vertical windows on each side of the entrance. "Smyrna Rosenwald School" is painted above the front door. In the foreground are three automobiles and a flagpole with the American flag aloft.
