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  • 1924 Football Team
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    Football players; Teachers
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    1924 football team. The coach is John T. Scopes.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Preacher on a soapbox
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    Preachers; Public speaking; Crowds; Spectators
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    A crowd listens in the streets to a preacher giving a soap box oratory.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Joe Mendi performs
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    Children; Chimpanzees; Apes; Trained animals; Pianos; Monkeys
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    A trained chimpanzee named Joe Mendi performs for a group of school children outside the home of Mrs. F. Robinson.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Health lesson in fourth grade
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    Nutrition; Education; Health; Food; Children; School children; Classrooms; Teachers
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    A young girl learns the basics of a healthy breakfast with the help of a teacher. The blackboard reads, ""Menu for breakfast, Oatmeal and cream, Egg on toast, Milk, Baked apple."" The young girl is wearing a dress but no shoes.
  • Dr. Harry Mustard Photo Album
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  • Clarence Darrow's Arrival in Dayton
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    Lawyers; Arrivals & departures; Men
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    Clarence Darrow's arrival in Dayton. John Scopes is shown welcoming Darrow. Also shown is John R. Neal.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Why Dayton of all Places
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    Pamphlets
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    Crowd gathers as the first shipment of booklets titled, "Why Dayton of all Places," by F. Robinson and W. Morgan arrive in Dayton.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Crowd in front of Robinson's Drugtore in Dayton
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    Crowds; Judicial proceedings; Drugstores
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    Crowd of people gathering in front of Robinson's Drugstore during the Scopes trial.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • CSA eagle button
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    CSA general and staff officer eleven-stars eagle button from Col. J. J. Neeley's uniform
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Elizabethton Senior Citizen Center
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    Social & civic facilities; Women; Older people; Quilts
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    Elizabethton Senior Citizen Center. Unidentified women can be seen quilting and holding up samples of other quilts.
  • Quilts
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  • All-purpose recreation room
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    Conservation of natural resources
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    Empty all-purpose 223rd Company Civilian Conservation Corps room at Powell's Station, Tennessee.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
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  • William Luther Bigelow Lawrence Diary Excerpts
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    Civil Wars; War
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    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...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • General George W. Gordon and Staff at Confederate Reunion in Franklin
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    Reunions
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    General George W. Gordon and Staff at a Confederate Reunion in Franklin. The individuals in the photograph are identified as Dr. Powell (Union City), Dr. Deering J. Roberts (Nashville), Col. Jno. P. Hickman (Nashville), Gen. J. H. McDowell (Union...
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Civil War buttons
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    General staff officer buttons and cuff buttons.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Major General Alexander McDowell McCook
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    Soldiers; Military uniforms
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    Half length portrait of Alexander McDowell McCook, seated, wearing major general insignia and holding a sword in his left hand. The inscription reads: "Affectionately yr brother, A. McD. McCook, Maj. Genl."
  • Civil War Soldier Photographs
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  • Carte de visite of Titus Rodgers
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    Half-length studio portrait of Titus Rodgers wearing his Union uniform. He enlisted in Chicago in 1861 with his brother, Oliver. The family states that Titus was on Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's staff. He fought with Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman in...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Plan of the military prison situated on Johnson's Island
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    Prisons; Prisoners of war; Prison hospitals; Prison guards; Sutlers; Military medicine
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    Hand-drawn color map of the military prison at Johnson's Island in the bay of Sandusky, Ohio, where captured Confederate officers were held. Prison buildings and grounds are labeled. Drawn by Capt. J. T. Hogane, Topographical Engineer, C.S.A.,...
  • Civil War Visual Culture
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  • Map of the area west of the Tennessee River and Chattanooga by Francis Mohrhardt, 1862 or 1863
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    Maps; Rivers; Streams; Railroads; Roads; Settlements
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    Hand-drawn pencil map of railroads, roads, rivers, and topological features in the area west of the Tennessee River and Chattanooga. The map includes a legend that details the specific distances between each town and city on the map.
  • Civil War Maps
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  • Carte de visite of Maj. Thomas H. Hartmus
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    Hartmus, of Cos. F and S, 34th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was on staff of Gen. William B. Bate from 1862 to 1865. The carte de visite was taken by A. B. Langford, photographer, of Jackson, Tenn.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Robinson's Drugstore in Dayton
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    Drugstores
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    Interior view of Robinson's Drugstore
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Dayton Leaders in Robinson's Drugstore
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    Drugstores; Men
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    Interior view of Robinson's Drugstore. Shown are George W. Rappelyea, Walter White, Clay Green, F. Robinson and Owen Wasson.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial

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