Advertisement for a "Grand Concert" featuring "Little Blind Maud Cook." It describes the agenda of musical and literary performances and provides background on the life of Maud Cook.
Calendar from 1919 featuring a painting of World War I soldiers, a battlefield cemetery, and the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae. It also features a brief commentary on the author of the poem and the war by "Black & Black, Makers of...
Steel engraving of President Andrew Johnson by John C. McRae, engraver, with Johnson's autograph and the quote, "The Duties are Mine. I will Perform Them Trusting in God." Depictions of various scenes from Johnson's life surround his portrait. ...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
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...
Small document serving as a military pass allowing Mrs. Priest and Mrs. Moran to pass beyond the pickets on the Lewisburg Pike and to return. The pass was authorized by Major General Gordon Granger of the Army of Kentucky stationed at Franklin,...
School buses; Vehicles; Transportation; Buildings; Schools
A passenger bus labeled "Tennessee School For The Deaf." It is parked in front of the Administration Building on the campus of the school. It is an all-steel, 28-passenger Wayne body on an International chassis, acquired for the school by its...
Sheet music covers; Music title pages; Music publishing industry; Songs; Patriotism
Six-page sheet music entitled "Grafted into the Army." On the front cover is a mother holding a pair of torn trousers. Below is a young soldier walking picket duty.
Sheet Music covers; Songs; Ballads; Campaigns & battles; Battlefields
Eight-page sheet music with a full color cover. On the cover is a color reproduction of Pickett's famous charge at Gettysburg. Companies selling this music are listed on the front cover.
.36 caliber Colt Navy revolver, serial number 103239. Inscription on the backstrap reads, "Presented to Colonel George G. Dibrell, 8th Tenn. Cav. by friends and citizens of Sparta, Tenn." The top flat of the barrel is marked, "ADDRESS COL. SAML...
Pair of leather pommel holsters with brass tips. The holsters belonged to Gen. George Dibrell, 8th (also 13th) Tenn. Cav. Regt. The unit, referred to as the "Independent Partisan Rangers," was composed of 921 men primarily from White, Putnam, and...
Co. E, 11th Ill. Cav. Regt. pin that belonged to David Preston Sherfy (alias George W. Garber). The pin is composed of crossed carbines with "11" above the rifles and "E" below.
Bayonet found near the site of Fort Pillow in the 1950s. In April 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest led an assault on Fort Pillow, at that time a Union outpost. The assault killed nearly half of the 600-man garrison, composed largely of African...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
"Jimmy Criddle P-10 mechanic & Negro C. C. C. boys working on Chev. truck; Automotive Instruction - J. M. Criddle, Otto Haslbauer with Negro CCC boys." is written on the back of the photograph.
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."
Printed and handwritten one-page Form No. 27, List of Quartermaster's Stores, has been altered by Lieutenant Wingate T. Robinson to reflect a transfer of serviceable and unserviceable horses from his Commander, Captain E. W. Bass of Company K, 5th...
Sheet music covers; Clothing & dress; Women; Singers
Oval lithograph with border of Jenny Lind (1820-1887), seated with hands folded, wearing formal dress and flowers in her hair. "Written and composed by A.F. Lindblad." "Rendered into English from the Swedish by J. Wrey Mould." Lithograph by Sarony...
