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  • Alvin C. York as Chairman of Fentress County Draft Board showing weapon to local registrant
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    Men; Soldiers; Heroes; Rifles; Military training; Firearms
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    Sergeant Alvin C. York shows a Selective Service registrant Wilba Reid how to handle a rifle.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Americans out for a little recreation with the Huns' carriage
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    Military personnel; Soldiers; Military uniforms; Uniforms; Carriages & coaches; Helmets; Graffiti; Campaigns & battles; War; World War, 1914-1918; War destruction & pillage
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    "Americans out for a little recreation with the Huns' carriage, taken in the American drive on the Hindenburg section at Bellicourt. Bellicourt, Aisne, France. October 10, 1918." Several American soldiers are pictured examining a German carriage....
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Correspondence from Thomas Crutchfield, Jr. to James R. Hood, December 27, 1863
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    Civil Wars; War
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    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...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Fentress County Draft Board
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    Railroads; Railroad stations; Soldiers; Draft; Government officials
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    Posing in front of a train are, from left to right, Alvin C. York, Jess W. Evans, Dr. J. P. Sloan, and A. S. Bushing. These men were the members of the Fentress County Draft Board.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Lectures and Demonstrations Delivered by J. M. Trotter
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    Broadsides
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    Advertisement for lecture and demonstrations by Dr. J. M. Trotter, President of the Virginia Emigration and Manufacturing Association, on a plan to buy land and form joint stock companies in order to build factories in the southern United States....
  • Throwaway History - The Broadside in American Culture
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  • Major Hilton Butler and Sergeant Alvin C. York
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    Draft; Recruiting & enlistment; Soldiers; Government officials
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    Sergeant Alvin C. York is talking with Major Hilton Butler at the Fentress County draft office at Jamestown. Both men are in business suits and are shown with paperwork, a stamp by a filing cabinet, and a 1940 calendar behind them.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Sergeant Alvin C. York functioning as Chairman of Fentress County Draft Board during World War II
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    Men; Soldiers; Heroes; Government officials; Government facilities; Stairways; Doors & doorways
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    York as Chairman of the Fentress County Selective Service Board leaves his office at the end of the day. A hand-lettered plywood sign on the outside of the building designates the office and the chairman of the board.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Soldiers examining a mine crater
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Mine warfare; Mines (Warfare); Explosives; Military retreats; Soldiers
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    Huge crater caused by the explosion of mine planted and exploded by the Germans in their retreat before the American troops.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • State Guard official's examining an airplane at Vultee Aircraft Factory
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    Military officers; Airplanes
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    State Guard military officials inspecting an airplane at the Vultee Aircraft Factory.
  • Tennessee State Guard
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  • Work at Headquarters, Second Brigade
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    Militias; Military officers; Military maneuvers; Military headquarters; Military facilities; Military intelligence
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    The men of the Headquarters of the Second Brigade, Tennessee State Guard, are shown performing various duties which would be expected of them. They are pictured seated behind desks, on the telephone, examining maps, and monitoring radio equipment.
  • Tennessee State Guard

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