Ten dollar Confederate note issued December 2, 1862 from Richmond, Virginia. In the center of the note is an image of the Columbia, South Carolina state house. An image of R.M.T. Hunter, a member of the Confederate cabinet, is located in the bottom...
General Phil Sheridan and his assistant, Crosby. Family lore states that these men were Federals who were looking for food and were not allowed in the house. "E. E. Henry, Photographic Artist, 42 Delaware Street, Leavenworth, Kansas" is printed...
Letter between unknown individuals discussing the Civil War. The letter also talks about the homefront, the coming end of the war, and women marrying in house. See Mary L. Pearre Diary & Photographs, TSLA Microfilm # 1957.
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...
Front page of the Spirit of the Farm newspaper, including an elaborately designed masthead. The design includes horses, livestock, grains, a farmer working in the fields, and a bee house.
View of two women who are outdoors watching a baby in a crib. Also shown is a clothesline with two quilts/blankets at the side of a house where a tub sits to collect water. A bed spring can be seen leaning against the house.
Advertisement for a lecture by three-term governor Bob Taylor to be held at the Opera House. A publicity photo of Taylor occupies most of the space, with the notation that the event is produced under the exclusive direction of the Rice Bureau.
Angled view of the front and side of an unidentified frame farmhouse. The house is a two-story I-house with a one-story ell. The frame is covered with weatherboard. There is a covered porch on the front facade of the house.
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Two large brick buildings comprise the campus of Grand Junction School. The two-story structure at right appears to be for classrooms, while the one at left appears to be a gymnasium or field house. A line of people, possibly in caps and gowns,...
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Certificate issued to Ernest N. Haston, a long-serving Tennessee Secretary of State, recognizing financial support and making him a member of the Association committed to restoring the Fort Donelson House. An image at the top of the certificate...
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...
Hand-drawn map of the Battle of Franklin, December 17, 1864, showing major roads, towns, and waterways. Features include the positioning of the infantry line on a hill on the northwest side of the Harpeth, the site of the rally at Harpeth Creek,...
Battle of Franklin map featuring movements of the forces and diagrams of the city of Franklin and of the Strickland Reilly Casement and other fortifications. The map also features engraved images of Carnton Gallery Confederate Mortuary and Carter...
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Six women and two men, probably passengers, are posing in front of smokestacks on the deck of a steamboat. The Texas deck can be seen at far right in the background. This steamboat is most likely the "City of Memphis."
Illustration in "Harper's Weekly," March 28, 1868, p. 193, shows President Andrew Johnson, attended by Col. W. G. Brown, being served an impeachment summons by George T. Brown, Sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate, in the White House.
