Broadsides; Fraternal organizations; Fraternal lodges; Civil rights leaders
Advertisement for "Negro History Week and Masonic History Day." The Honorable John Wesley Dobbs will speak. An image of John Wesley Dobbs is included on the broadside.
Broadside advertising a three-day fair to be staged at the Fayetteville Fairgrounds beginning October 10, 1872. This was to be the first annual fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association to be held in Fayetteville. ...
Call to the District Court of the Confederate States of America in Nashville by Clerk Jacob McGavock for N. E. Alloway. Alloway is the garnishee, answering the interrogatories of the Court dealing with property and allegiances. Authorization...
Image card featuring 67 leaders of the Confederate Army including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Leonidas Polk, A. S. Johnston, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and many others. Text below reads, "Confederate Chiefs." Each image is...
Letter from D. B. Cliffe to Moscow Branch Carter. Carter, from Franklin, Tennessee, served with Company H, 20th Tennessee Infantry, CSA until he was captured at Mill Springs, Kentucky in January 1862. Cliffe, the regimental surgeon, writes, "My...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Letter written by the president of the MSPCA (Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), George T. Angell, to A. R. Rogers, Beautiful Jim Key's promoter. Angell was the founder of the MSPCA and one of the earliest leaders of...
Mrs. Caroline Meriwether Goodlett (1833-1914). "Copy of the Caroline Meriwether Goodlett portrait, unveiled Nov. 21, 1944 - now hanging in the State Library" is written on the back of the photograph.
Parrish's camp was constructed outside the city limits at the time, but would be inside the city limits today. They could walk to town and go to movies. He also attended night school at Clarksville High School, which was permitted in the Civilian...
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."
Sculpture; Public sculpture; Monuments & memorials; Capitols; Soldiers; Firearms; Uniforms
The Alvin C. York Memorial on the southeast corner of the State Capitol grounds, Nashville, Tennessee. York, wearing a World War I uniform, is aiming a rifle; the Tennessee State Capitol is visible in the background.
Three page extract of written questions posed to leaders and teachers assoicated with various benevolent societies working for the Freedmen Department.
