Soldiers; Heroes; Military uniforms; Medals; Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Alvin York in his uniform standing on the steps of the tomb monument of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage. He wears his military uniform and has his visor cap in his hand.
Alvin York returning from service in France in World War I. He wears his uniform and his overseas cap. His Congressional Medal of Honor and Croix de Guerre are both visible on his chest. He carries his large pack with him over his left shoulder. ...
Christopher Ammons on December 19, 2011, at the Montgomery County Archives. He is holding the camera he used in Vietnam. Ammons wears a cap with a patch reading, "1st Infantry 1965-1970 Vietnam." The nickname of the First Infantry Division is the...
Copy print of Lieutenant Colonel John C. Shackleford, Company G, Peter Turney's First Tennessee Regiment. Shackleford has a mustache and full beard. He is wearing wool uniform and cap. He was killed at Gaines Mill, Virginia.
Crayon print of Leona Beal Russell, wife of Cap. Malcolm W. Russell, Co. F, 51st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. They lived in the Grainger community in Madison County, Tennessee.
Sheet music covers; Fictitious characters; Laundry; Weather; Clotheslines
Drawing of an angry-looking man in dressing gown and cap, with glasses perched on his forehead. He appears in the clouds above a clothesline holding laundry. On the ground are baskets, pails, an iron, and scrubbing brushes.
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) items in wooden frame. The most striking is a veteran's medal made with a silk U.S. flag suspended from a spread-eagle pin. A five-pointed star hangs from the flag. Also included are two GAR buttons, a GAR cap...
Henry served in Co. G, "Jackson Grays," 6th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Taken at Union City in summer of 1862 when Henry was 20 years old. Photographed with 1816 Springfield rifle and kepi cap. Tintype has a "halo" effect common in such photographs.
Model 1860 cavalry saber and scabbard. "K I" is cut into the saber's pommel cap and the blade is marked, "P.S. JUSTICE PHILADA." The scabbard is nickel-plated.
Pvt. Robert A. Cheatham served in Co. C, 1st Tenn. (Feilds') Inf. Regt., CSA, during the Civil War. Based on the uniform, it is an early war image, unusual for the 'C' on his cap. Calvert, a Nashville photographer, reproduced this image as a glass...
