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Audio excerpt of Jewel Allen oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses how he used to bottom chairs during the winters while his wife pieced quilts. His wife taught him to piece quilts and she...
Red keepsake album embossed with gold. Soldiers signed her book when they passed through, and some even wrote poems. The item belonged to the William K. Barley family, descendant of Jonathan Bachman and William McClellan families. The book belonged...
Broadside lists tuition costs for primary, common English, higher English or classical educations. Identified are J. S. Henry, President, and Richard Pepper, Assistant. Board of Trustees are listed at the bottom.
Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons; Propaganda; Publicity; Public opinion; Slogans; Press; Insignia; Bayonets
Political cartoon featureing a uniformed Tennessee State Guard member crouched with his bayonet at the ready. The backdrop is the emblem for the State Guard. A list appears at the top right of the types of drills and skills that are involved. The...
This printed form with handwritten entries records Lieutenant Jojn B. Turner's entrance into military service, acceptance of the terms of service, and the verification of his commanding and mustering officers.
Brief note to the office of Gov. Prentice Cooper by Lt. Col. Wylie G. Borum, State Guard officer and Military Aide to the Governor, suggesting gold sealed stickers to be placed in the windows of firms who employed State Guard members. The...
Silver and glass relish dish and tongs from the family of Richard England. The silver is plated with designs and the glass is engraved with a woman and cherub. "Middletown plate" is engraved on the bottom of the silver plate. Family legend states...
Displays routes and distances of major cities from the departure point of the stage from Abingdon, Virginia. Smaller towns and communities near those cities are also listed with the additional mileage that would be required to reach them. These...
Men of Rutledge's Battery posed in front of a tent. They are identified as Frank Johnson, George W. Trabue, Jack R. Long, Jason C. Wheeler, E. F. Falconet, A. M. Rutledge, Joe E. Harris, George E. Purvis, J. P. Humphrey, J. Griffith, and M. S....
Steel engraving consisting of images of President Andrew Johnson and members of his immediate Cabinet (Stanton, Seward, Chase, and Welles), with a heraldic eagle at the top and a depiction of the United States Capitol at the bottom.
Season ticket booklet for admission to the Tennessee Centennial Expostition of 1897. The cover has an image of a shield surrounded by a wreath and ribbon. The words "Tennessee Centennial Nashville, Tenn." appear on the shield and the ribbon above...
Advertisement for T.H. Kennedy's Tennessee Variety Store in Hazel Green, Alabama, selling dry goods, clothing, hats, shoes, notions, groceries, and provisions. The ad states all goods will be sold at bottom prices for cash or barter.
Floods; Universities & colleges; Games; Houses; Men; Young adults
Scrapbook page contains three photographs. Upper two show flooded houses in Nashville, 1926. Bottom shows five young men building a human pyramid while others exercise around horizontal bars.
This etching features a front view of the White House that includes the fountain on the front lawn. At the bottom of the drawing, the Wall name appears with the date 1937, and Wall signed the etching below. The inspiration image comes from the...
