Oversize forms providing the list of names of individuals and the jobs they were hired to perform. Forms specify the wide array of services performed by the Quartermaster in Nashville and list "colored employees" specifically and separately. The...
A broadside advertisement for the services of John T. Gordon’s carding machine and grain mill. An engraving of the carding machine is shown at the top of the broadside.
Summary of 1912 health report for Gallatin written by the City Health Officer, Dr. W. N. Lackey. The report statistically addresses mortality rates and births and provides a partial breakdown by sex, race, and age. It examines causes of death,...
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
The boys' dormitory, Cottage D, at the Tennessee School for the Deaf with construction drawing to a close. Windows, doors, and front entry steps have all been added within the course of a month's construction, and no construction equipment is...
Schools; Construction; Construction workers; Dormitories; Buildings
Construction nearly complete on Cottage D, the boys' dormitory building, on the campus of the Tennessee School for the Deaf and Dumb. Scaffolding, ramps, and sawhorses give an indication of the flurry of construction activity associated with this...
Broadside calls Tennesseans to arms against the "hired and ruffian soldiers" of the North. "The Yankee War is now being waged for beauty and booty." Signed by J. B. Murray and H. C. Witt. Most likely a reproduction.
Letter from Anna E. Peck to her cousin, Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA, thanking him for news of her brother who was in Maryland. She writes, "his heart and soul is with us, who are only contending for our own rights....
Report submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster of the 75th Indiana Infantry. This monthly departmental form,designated No. 8, names twenty-eight civilian employees due pay. All but one are listed as "Colored"...
Howard physician of Memphis visiting patients stricken with yellow fever communicates the dire situation that the city faced during its 1870s public health nightmare.
