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  • Auditorium and Commerce Building
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    Centennial celebrations; Exhibitions; Anniversaries; Commemorations; Exhibition buildings; Exhibit booths; Auditoriums; Concert halls; Social & civic facilities
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    Mounted black and white photograph of the Auditorium and the Commerce Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
  • Tennessee Centennial Exposition
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  • Civilian Conservation Corps fire and chow gang
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    Clubs; Fire alarms; Bells; Signals; Communication devices
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    Five Civilian Conservation Corps members in a mix of dress and work uniforms pose on and in front of the circular gong used to notify the camp of fire and meal time. One of the men is holding the hammer used to strike the gong and sound the alarm.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
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  • "Wedding Bells for Sergt. York," news article
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    Marriage
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    Article from unidentified newspaper is entitled "Wedding Bells for Sergt. York" and written by R. G. Fields. It describes the bride, "seventeen," her father, "A. F. Williams, former circuit court clerk of Fentress County," and some of the wedding...
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Old Livingston Rosenwald School
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    Rural schools; Wooden buildings; Automobiles; Bells; One-room schools; Yards; Porches
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    Front and side views of Old Livingston Rosenwald School with a separate shop building, vintage car and bell in the background. The school is a wooden structure with three chimneys and a porch. The yard is well-worn and a wooden fence stands at the...
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Old Neophagen White School (Neophagen, Neophagon, Neophogan)
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    Schools; Rural schools; One-room schools; Educational facilities
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    Front view of Old Neophagen, a white school in Benton County. The frame structure is set in the midst of trees, with two men appearing on the right.
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Bells Consolidated Rosenwald School
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    Schools; Rural schools; Public schools; Educational facilities
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    Side view of Bells Consolidated Rosenwald School in Crockett County. The prim-looking white schoolhouse has multiple windows and is set in a withered cornfield.
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Old Bells Colored School (Abandoned)
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    Schools; Rural schools; Public schools; One-room schools; Educational facilities
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    Front view of Old Bells School, a black school in Crockett County. At the time of the photograph, the school was abandoned.
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Enterprise School
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    Schools; Wooden buildings; One-room schools
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    Simple wooden school building with a tin roof and brick chimney. Two windows and one door can be seen. A sign is posted on a wood beam in the front and it reads "Enterprise School." The building is in an empty, rural location with a few shrubs...
  • Early 20th Century Schoolhouses
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  • Nannie E. Haskins Diary Excerpts
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    Teenagers; Girls; Civil Wars; War; Battlefields; Rebellions; Campaigns & battles; Cities & towns; Villages
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    Excerpts from a small handwritten diary written by Nannie Haskins, a young girl of Clarksville, Tennessee. Provides an insight into the day to day activities of an observant young girl. Haskins was strongly in support of the Confederacy and loathed...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War

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