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Front view of a white frame schoolhouse with one door and eight windows visible. Several tree stumps are located on the grounds. There is a sign over the four middle windows that reads, "Rosenwald School."
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932
Front and side views of Sparta Rosenwald Colored School. It is a one-story brick structure with five windows on each side of the front entrance. The yard is bare.
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Partially dismantled clapboard building set on stacked stones. It had two windows on each side and a small center chimney. Another building sets to the right of the schoolhouse.
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Front and side views of a large brick schoolhouse. It appears to be under construction, and a man on a ladder can be seen. Two men are standing near the front of the building, and a vintage truck is parked in back.
Two typed sheets of paper. The first is a physical examination form for qualification in the Tennessee State Guard. The second is an application for state commission as an officer in the Tennessee State Guard.
One sheet of typed paper containing the oath of enlistment for members of the Tennessee State Guard during World War II. Also contained on the blank form are the enlistment record and declaration of the applicant.
This volume comprises the first land grant book created for the area which became Tennessee. Located at the front is the contract or treaty formalizing the land purchase between the Watauga Association and the Cherokee chiefs. It is followed by...