194th MP Security Platoon on Vung Chua Mountain pose before a patrol with trucks and military facilities behind them. Pictured, left to right, are Hammonds, Doughty, Clark, Race, Riggle, Manning, and Chu. Most are smiling. The six soldiers are...
43rd Tennessee Veterans Reunion. Pictured are J. C. Giles, J. W. Whipple, Lt. J. S. Ferguson, Capt. John Tonkin, A. A. Williams, J. L. Rigsby, J. L. Stigar, G. H. Wade, T. J. Robinson, J. C. Watson, W. S. Roddy, J. M. Culton, J. E. Stiger, A. J....
5th Tenn. Confederate Veterans. The photograph was taken in front of the Confederate Memorial in Paris, Tennessee. An inscription on the back lists the following individuals: "Top row: A. H. Hancock, J. W. Bowden, Pack Orr, J. Watt Allen, Jack...
Card from Christopher Ammons featuring a cartoon soldier and the text Dont Worry While Im in Vietnam. A message on the back describes weather and night at Vung Chua Mountain in Qui Nhon, including regularly scheduled movies at an outdoor theater. ...
Engraved reproduction of Julio's "Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson." General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson each seated on horseback side by side with three officers also on horseback behind them. It is a copy of the artist's rendering...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to the nation concerning the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936 is reproduced in the 1937 Civilian Conservation Corps Yearbook with the Civilian Conservation Corps insignia at the bottom of the page,...
llustration depicting the failed impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, in which Radical Republicans are represented by a dead horse. Several individuals involved in the proceedings hold their noses against the "smell," including...
Sheet music covers; Dogs; Beaches; Graves; Shipwrecks
Blue-toned print of a dog lying on a grave at the seashore with a wrecked vessel in the shallow water just offshore. Under print: "Words and Music by Paul Dresser." Cover artist unknown.
Letter from Major D. B. Brewer of the Confederate Subsistence Bureau in Richmond, Virginia, to Captain B. J. Semmes in Chattanooga, Tennessee, certifying that returns for the second and third quarters of 1863 have been received.
Steel engraving of President Andrew Johnson found within a bound volume containing the Presidential Pardon for Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA.
A small, run-down cabin with an old stone chimney on the left. An elderly man and woman are standing in front of the open doorway. He is stooped and holding a cane. She has a crutch under each arm. Both appear to be dressed in their best. Behind...
Three-page handwritten letter written from Ammons to his family recounting his attendance at the Bob Hope USO show on Christmas Eve in 1967. He describes being issued clean fatigues, flying on a Chinook helicopter to Lai Khe Base Camp, and viewing...
Three-page handwritten letter from Ammons to his family. He describes returning to his company's Lai Khe Base Camp from Close Infantry Combat (C.I.C) training to find the company had two men killed and two wounded in an ambush. The unit had...
