Sheet music covers; Music title pages; Songs; Ballads; Minstrel shows
Sheet music, consisting of six pages, with an etching of an "African-American" representing the "Old Contraband." The composers are listed on the front cover.
School buses; Vehicles; Transportation; Buildings; Schools
A passenger bus labeled "Tennessee School For The Deaf." It is parked in front of the Administration Building on the campus of the school. It is an all-steel, 28-passenger Wayne body on an International chassis, acquired for the school by its...
Printed Form No. 14, concerning charges to soldiers, specifies weapons damaged, lost, or destroyed and charged on muster and payrolls, first quarter of 1865; it also lists the names of soldiers and the conditions under which pistols were lost....
Governor John Sevier's address to the first General Assembly as transcribed by Daniel Smith. Provides a more detailed account of the proceedings related to Tennessee's admission to the Union. Also directs the General Assembly to focus its first...
Governor John Sevier's address to the Tennessee General Assembly as transcribed by Daniel Smith. Sevier debriefs members about the outcome of Tennessee's appeal for admission. At this time, he also summons the members to attend the first session...
Military officers; Militias; Military maneuvers; Military facilities; Military camps
Brigadier General Smith, Major General Pritchard, Major General Roderick R. Allen, Brigadier General Jacob McGavock Dickinson and other unnamed officers from the Tennessee State Guard observing firepower demonstrations from the sidelines. The...
Military officers; Military uniforms; Militias; Military training; Military education
Tennesse State Guard officers who attended military training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia in 1942. There are approximately forty-three officers in the photograph.
Military officers; Military uniforms; Militias; Military life; Military facilities; Military exchanges; Universities & colleges
Brig. General Jacob M. Dickinson visiting with a clerk at the Officers' Post Exchange at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. In the background are well-stocked shelves showing items available to officers.
Mezzotint-process portrait of Andrew Johnson, published by William Smith, Philadelphia, "entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by William Sartain in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn"...
Christopher Ammons with Pvt. Smith (Smitty), a 35-year-old veteran of the Korean War who volunteered for Vietnam. The faces of the two soldiers are complete but the picture, which was probably torn from a photo-booth strip, has jagged edges at top...
Invitation to the memorial service for former U. S. President Andrew Johnson (deceased), to be held in Nashville, Tennesseee, October 2, 1875. Former United States Senator Joseph S. Fowler of Tennessee is to deliver an address on "the life,...
Maps; Rivers; Cities & towns; Streams; Surveying; Land grants
Map showing ranges, counties, streams, some roads, and county seats of the First Surveyor's District of Tennessee in the early 1800s. The Tennessee River appears at the western edge of the map. The counties of Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner,...
