Poster announcing a revival led by Adlai Loudy, who is pictured on the poster. He proclaims, "No book but the Bible, No creed but the Christ, No plea but the Gospel, No name but the Divine."
Advertisement for a "Grand Concert" featuring "Little Blind Maud Cook." It describes the agenda of musical and literary performances and provides background on the life of Maud Cook.
Poster advertising a campaign speech by K. D. McKellar, candidate for Senate, for the Democratic primary run-off. He is advertised as speaking in Charlotte and Dickson. His description includes "The Man of the Hour," "Clean Record," "Staunch...
Large broadside giving details concerning the method for convicts in the state prison to use in applying for a pardon. The broadside is signed by Governor John C. Brown.
Broadsides; Death & burial; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Graves; Mothers
Nashville Banner print giving details of the death and burial of Andrew Jackson's mother. The broadside refutes the rumor that Mrs. Jackson was buried on the roadside.
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...
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Broadside reads, "Ex-President Johnson Has accepted an invitation to address the people of Lincoln County, at Fayetteville, On Tuesday, July 13th 1869. Come hear him! Printed at the Observer Office, Fayetteville, Tenn."
Resolution of Congress of the United States, Forty-Fourth Congress, First Session, on motion by Mr. McFarland, to convey sympathy to the family of former President Andrew Johnson, deceased, and "further mark of respect for the memory of the...
Military personnel; Presidents; Presidential appointments
Military commission of Lewis T. (aka Louis Thompson) Morris, Brevet Major, U. S. Army, December 16, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious service at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee," signed by President Andrew Johnson, cosigned by Edwin M. Stanton,...
Barbed wire; Prisoners; Military personnel; War; Fighting; Firearms
This page in Mitchener's diary shows the prisoners and guards seeking cover in a trench; several German guards are pictured shooting guns. Mitchener writes, "Near Priebus, second nite out ---C'est le guerre [It's war] - Down the road, rattled a...
This page is a poem or list of things that Mitchener misses and craves during his imprisonment in a POW camp in Germany. He has then included a small poem that reads,"I have loved those things/Gentle living our country gave/You'll find them where...
This page is a poem, "Mothers' Sons," about the sons who don't make it home after the war and the ones who do. Mitchener is aware of his own luck to have survived his air missions, but sympathetic to those mothers who never see their sons again....
This is the last page of "Mothers' Sons," a poem about the sons who don't make it home after the war and the ones who do. Mitchener is aware of his own luck to have survived his air missions, but sympathetic to those mothers who will never see...
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows a poem called "The B-17," by POW D. Hughes. The poem is about the greatness of the B-17 bomber.
