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  • Aged man with rifle
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    Older people; Gunsmithing; Firearms; Men
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    Wiley Gibson, famous gunsmith of Sevier County, Tennessee, working on a rifle.
  • Arts, Crafts & Folklife Photos
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  • Gibson County Court House
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    Courthouses; Automobiles; Buildings; Streets
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    View of courthouse for Gibson County in Trenton, Tennessee.
  • Tennessee Postcard Collection
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  • Trenton Rosenwald School
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    Schools; Rural schools; School children; Teachers
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    The student body and teachers of Trenton Rosenwald School are pictured in a group shot taken at the front of the facility.
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Dyer Rosenwald School
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    Schools
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    Simple white building with a sign above the front five windows that reads, "Dyer Rosenwald School."
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Letter from Pvt. George W. James to Francis Marion James
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    Pvt. G. W. James, Co. H, 12th Tenn. Inf. (later Co. F, 47th Tenn. Inf.) writes to his brother in Gibson County from a camp near Sweetwater, Tenn. He tells of being where the "terrible thunder of cannons & deafening roar of musketry played their...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Powder horn and leather shooting bag
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    Powder horn and leather shooting bag. These items belonged to the Carroll family of Gibson County, Tennessee.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Photograph of Columbia, Tennessee Confederate veterans
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    Photograph of Columbia Tennessee Confederate Veterans. Names listed on back: C. C. Vaughn, Nate Due, T. E. Lipscomb, Sims Latta, Hugh Collier, Brown Church, Dave Watkins, Frank Aydlott, B. Rieves, Merritt Booker Tomlinson, Gibson, Garmen, Bill...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Oath of allegiance
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    Oath of allegiance of Private Carroll, Gibson County, Tennessee, July 26, 1869
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Will Rogers Memorial Fund, a lithograph by Howard Chandler Christy
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    Broadsides; Lithographs; Memorial works
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    Large lithographic poster for the Will Rogers Memorial Fund. The artwork was done by Howard Chandler Christy.
  • Throwaway History - The Broadside in American Culture
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  • Commission for justice of the peace signed by Gov. Isham G. Harris
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    Justice of the Peace commission for James N. Vaughn of Gibson County, Tenn., signed by Gov. Harris on Jan. 24, 1859.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Photograph of James Hammond with musket and pistols
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    James (Jimmy) Hammond wearing slouch hat and holding a flintlock musket converted to percussion. Hammond was born September 23, 1841, in Gibson County, Tenn. He was the son of John K. and Elizabeth Boyd Hammond. According to family legend, Jimmy...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Letters from Emma and Henry James to Dr. F. W. James and his wife, Hepsey
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    Henry and Emma James were the younger siblings of Francis (Frank) W. James, a doctor in Rutherford, Tennessee. Aged seventeen and nine, Henry and Emma lived in Bluff Springs in Gibson County, Tennessee. Henry writes about the corn and cotton crops,...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Gravestone of S. K. P. House
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    Headstone of S. K. P. House, 1st Lt., Co. B and Co. F, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. His grave is in the House Cemetery in Gibson County, Tenn. See dyer010, dyer011, and dyer013 for related materials.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Photograph of James Holden Jackson
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    Half-length portrait of James Holden Jackson, Co. C, 31st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA (A.H. Bradford's). The 31st assembled at Camp Trenton, Gibson County, Oct. 1861, where they organized as a regiment. The men saw action in southern Kentucky and West...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Milan School
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    Schools; Rural schools; Playgrounds; Seesaws; Swings; Sliding boards
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    Front view of Milan Elementary School in Gibson County. Playground equipment occupies the front lawn.
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Sons of Temperance certificate
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    Francis M. James joined the Sons of Temperance, a brotherhood of men who promoted the temperance movement in the mid-1800s. James lived in Bluff Springs, Gibson County, Tennessee.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • F. M. Gibson, the Last Surviving Confederate Veteran in Bradley County
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    Soldiers; Flags
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    F. M. Gibson seated in front of a Confederate flag. He is holding a cane in his right hand.
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Ambrotype of Capt. Ben H. Sandeford
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    Cased ambrotype of Capt. (Maj.) Ben H. Sandeford, Co. H., 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the "Gibson Stars." Sandeford, a native of Jackson, Tenn., was killed in action on April 6, 1862, at Shiloh. In the portrait, he is standing and...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Affidavit of loyalty to Union
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    A. Patterson's affidavit of loyalty to the Union. Patterson swears he was never disloyal to the Union and "has never been guilty of any of the disqualifications specified in the Act of February 25, 1867."
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Photograph of Asa Young Gibson
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    A young man in a Union uniform and hat, holding a gun. He was from Smith County, Tennessee.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee

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