Young African-American boy stands facing the camera while standing on a weight measure scale. He is wearing a white gown and has his right hand on the base weight located on a horizontal bar. The device can also measure his height.
Men; Soldiers; Heroes; Government officials; Government facilities; Stairways; Doors & doorways
York as Chairman of the Fentress County Selective Service Board leaves his office at the end of the day. A hand-lettered plywood sign on the outside of the building designates the office and the chairman of the board.
Radio broadcasting; Singing; Folk singers; Musicians; Women; Musical instruments; Guitars; Mandolins
WSM Singers at the Square Dance, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. They are holding their musical instruments and singing into the WSM microphone.
Radio broadcasting; Singing; Folk singers; Folk music; Musicians; Musical instruments; Banjos; Guitars; Violins
WSM Country Band and Singers, at the Square Dance, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee. They have musical instruments in hand and are performing around a microphone.
Written to "my dear husband," a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio. Mrs. Gordon laments that it has been a month since she has received a letter from "my dear one." She reports that Pa has gone to Nashville for supplies and that Sis had a...
Written on U. S. Christian Commission stationery to "Dear Brother" from A. J., J. A., and W. T. Easley. "We went under a flag of truce and I can tell you John it did not look right to see the Jonnys and Yankees all mixed up together Looks like war...
Written on U. S. Christian Commission stationery and titled "Horid Disaster." On the back of the letter he writes "lost, lost, all is lost." This letter explains the death of Sol's brother-in-law, Henry Marshall Misemer and two brothers, Levi and...
Written on the back of John Hare Bond's checks, this story recounts Fielding Hurst's harassment of West Tennessee planter Uncle Lewis "Luke" Bond. Hurst, a rare Unionist in the region, raised units of scouts and cavalry. They patrolled Federal...
Writing to his wife Amelia after his arrival in New Orleans, Hord described travel difficulties and plans to visit friends. He heard that Tennessee had voted by a majority of more than fifty thousand not to call a convention for secession. Hord...
Wooden stick, possibly for measuring powder charges, inscribed with "George Norman Caswell Artillery", a Nashville, Tennessee, unit that served with Gen. Felix Zollicoffer at Mill Springs, Kentucky, and "January 12, 1862"
Wooden spoon hand carved by John Marshall Akin, Co. B, 53rd Ga. Inf. Regt., Simms' Brigade, McClaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps. Akin, a resident of Barnesville, Ga, served one year in the army. He then served three years as a hospital nurse...
Woman who is thought to be a former slave taken at the Crockett home in Brentwood, Tennessee. She was called Aunt Sophie. The back of the photograph the following information: "Aunt Sophie at the age of 106; she remembers the War of 1812. Picture...
