Image of J. B. Killebrew taken from the book, "Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee." The photograph was taken in 1871. The photo was taken in Nashville and the photographer was R. Poole. Killebrew appears to be middle-aged, and is wearing a...
Market results for produce, seeds, wool, cotton, tobacco, flour, grain, hay, and livestock. Also included is a meteorological chart depicting temperature and rainfall.
Pages 419 and 420 of a large bound volume containing issues of "The Rural Sun: Devoted to the Farming and Industrial Interest of the Country." This volume was presented to Balie Peyton from J. B. Killebrew.
Pages 577 and 578 of a large bound volume containing issues of "The Rural Sun: Decoted to the Farming and Industrial Interest of the Country." This volume was presented to Balie Peyton from J. B. Killebrew.
Large bound volume containing the various editions of "The Rural Sun." The complete title of the periodical is "The Rural Sun: Devoted to the Farming and Industrial Interest of the Country." This volume was presented to Balie Peyton by Joseph...
Postcard featuring color image of the memorial statue of Sam Davis. The statue depicts Sam Davis standing with his arms crossed atop a stone monument with a bronze inscription.
The front cover of the April 1905 issue of Southern Farm Magazine features several paragraphs from Financial Age under the caption "Bringing in Settlers." Framed by engraved imagery of fruits, vegetables, grains, livestock and poultry and the names...
Letter, written shortly after the end of the Scopes Trial, sent to former governor Malcolm R. Patterson by Nashville Tennessean managing editor and Governor Austin Peay advisor, Truman Alexander. Alexander sought to inform Patterson of William...
Barbed wire; Torches; Sculpture; Heads (Anatomy); Reflections; Crowns; Fantasy
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II includes a drawing of the Statue of Liberty. On the top of the page he has written,"Maybe not in reality - but in every dream - "Underneath this heading, he has drawn a picture of a man dreaming...
Article appearing under the title of "Agricultural Society in Middle Tennessee" in the May 1, 1838, issue of the "Tennessee Farmer" conveys the importance of not only agricultural organization on the county level, but on the state level as well.
This front-page obituary that appeared in the March 22, 1906, issue of the Manufacturers' Record for Joseph Buckner Killebrew highlighted his life-long devotion to agriculture. His contributions to the South with regard to agriculture, mining,...
Front page of the Spirit of the Farm newspaper, including an elaborately designed masthead. The design includes horses, livestock, grains, a farmer working in the fields, and a bee house.
Carte-de-visite of John Ward Gates. He was a newspaper man from Jackson, Tennessee. Gates was a member of Henderson's Scouts in Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry. He was captured near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1864 and sent to Alton,...
