35mm slide showing large crowd in the street and on the sidewalks around the Hermitage Hotel. The Tennessee State Capitol is visible at right. Three closed sedans are parked at the curb. Several policemen are present. Most people are in...
A letter from Frederick M. Williamson to Alice O. McBee. Williamson wrote from General Hospital No. 2, 3rd Division Ward in Lynchburg, Va. He describes his illness and only having a blanket and a bed of straw to rest on. He discusses wanting to...
A woman is standing on a porch near a wash tub with a wash board inside. The tub is raised by laying a wooden chair on its side. Two large lard cans just visible beside the chair may hold cleaning products. The woman is dressed in a sunbonnet, dark...
Former slave in talks with a former master whose continued paternal and patriarchal spirit is supposedly expressed in his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Group of unidentified individuals scattering straw on a hillside. Written in ink on the back of the photograph, it says: "Scattering straw on hillside to improve land. Retards wash."
Letter from Jane Smith Washington of Springfield, Tennessee, to her son, William L. Washington in Toronto, Canada, describing a confrontation with Federal troops. Mrs. Washington describes an extremely violent confrontation with Federal troops. In...
War; World War, 1914-1918; Canals; Barracks; Military camps; Officers' quarters; Mess halls
This photograph features the "Dead End" of the Ypres Canal in the foreground of the image. Behind it appears the officers' and noncommissioned officers' billets and the mess hall. The caption reads: "All comforts of home. Roulette, Tea and boating...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Two entrances flanked by windows are visible in this front view of Mt. Zion Hebrew Colored School. Two white men wearing straw hats are standing in the front yard. In the distance are cattle and trees.
