Four-page letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband Samuel details news of their children and other family members. References are made to a scarcity of food and civilian transportation and rumors of battle. Mary proclaims her hope that her...
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...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Side and front views of Nelson Merry School in Jefferson County. It is a two-story clapboard building set on rock pillars. The school has a front porch, hip roof, and is set among trees. A tall flagpole stands in the front yard.
Composite photograph of sixty-six graduates of the Fisk University Class of 1928. Head and shoulder photos are set in ovals. Class officers are listed first, then men, then women. Class officers include William H. Fort, Jr., Preston A. Merry,...
