Interior image of the Union Gospel Tabernacle including the audience and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra performing at a benefit staged by the Ladies' Hermitage Association to fund the preservation of The Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson.
Sheet music covers; Music title pages; Music publishing industry; Songs; Patriotism
Six-page sheet music entitled "Grafted into the Army." On the front cover is a mother holding a pair of torn trousers. Below is a young soldier walking picket duty.
Drawing of three performers on stage, one with a violin, one with a banjo, and one dancing, advertising a concert to be performed by Confederate prisoners of war from John Hunt Morgan's cavalry at Camp Douglas. They appear to be performing the...
Print of the Battle of Stones River depicting the Federal troops of General William Rosencrans fighting against Confederate troops under General Bragg. A Union column marches toward the action and a battery of cannon fires on Confederate troops as...
Print of the Fort Pillow Massacre showing General Forrest's Confederate troops firing and bayonetting the surrendering Federal force under Major William F. Bradford.
Deliveries from Steamer Pioneer and Steamer Colossus from H. Shoals, Tennessee, are recorded on the same printed form. Their cargo is mostly iron and brass.
One-page printed form noting packages and contents, such as coils of rope, cases of saws, barrels of linseed oil, et cetera. Invoice of stores delivered by S. H. Stevens to W. A. Wainwright, via Steamer Mercury, from Smithland, Kentucky, to...
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...
Calendar from 1919 featuring a painting of World War I soldiers, a battlefield cemetery, and the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. It also features a brief commentary on the author of the poem and the war by "Black & Black, Makers of...
Black and white photograph of the Illinois Building, located at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. In the foreground is a lake.
Drawing of life inside Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp. Large central image depicts events in the camp and are numbered with a legend beneath describing each. Images of specific events surround the central image.
Foreground features sculpture of soldier atop base of Confederate Monument honoring Henry County Confederate soldiers. Background shows courthouse lawn, Paris storefronts, and colorful 1950s-1960s era automobiles. Back of card is not filled out. ...
Alabama monument at Shiloh National Military Park. Monument consists of a stone pedestal carved with crossed rifle and flag and the letters "C.S.A." The monument is topped by a stone carving of stacked cannon balls.
The "monument erected and dedicated by the people of Michigan in memory of her soldiers who fought and fell in the Battle of Shiloh." Features soldier standing with his rifle.
Sharp and Smith manufacturer, Chicago, Illinois. Acquired from a hospital in Philadelphia. Instruments include tourniquet, saws, and scalpels in pristine condition.
Double-cased studio portraits of Oliver Rodgers (ambrotype) and unidentified boy (tintype). Rodgers, Co. G, 44th Ill. Vol. Inf., USA, poses in uniform with his left hand resting inside coat at chest level. The boy, dressed in suit and tie, is...
