Broadside featuring a phrenological chart of murderer "John A. Murril" as performed by Dr. A. Crane, Professor of Phrenology, in 1844. It rates Murril's strongest traits under the categories of propensities, feelings, sentiments, perceptives, and...
Broadside advertising "Lecture on the Science of Love in Courtship and Marriage" by Prof. H. Foster Smith at the Methodist Church at a cost of 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. The advertisement offers phrenological charts for $2 and...
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....
Memorial for Corporal Roby Hendrix who was killed in World War I. The image features a painting of advancing troops, light and heavy artillery, tanks, naval personnel, ships, and airplanes around a central image of a battered pillar and a poem. It...
Broadside advertising Jose Greco and his company of Spanish Dancers performing at the Grand Ole Opry. The ad features reviews of this show from the "N. Y. Journal-American" and "Life" Magazine.
Broadside advertising a demonstration of "Edison's Talking Machine or Phonograph" at a cost of 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. It claims that the machine will repeat distinctly every word spoken for years after, and that "it is not...
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...
Broadside program for a dinner honoring Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka Mark Twain) featuring a steamship's wheel with the titles of Twain's writings, images of steamships, a writer's quill, and a photograph of Twain with a "Lotos" flower. It also...
Terminal Building at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. The image features a front and side view of the building. The top of the building carries the lettering "Railway Exhibits." The grounds clearly contain decorative...
Cover of a program announcing "Presbyterian Day" on October 28, 1897, at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. The center of the program features an image of a log cabin, and each corner of the program has the names of persons associated with the...
Centennial celebrations; Dormitories; Public accommodation facilities
Pamphlet of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition containing information for accommodations at dormitories at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The pamphlet has a photograph of the Parthenon on the front and states that accommodations are available...
Gold-colored ribbon noting the celebration of "Vanderbilt Day" at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition on October 11, 1897. The ribbon features a profile image of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Front view of the Woman's Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. The building was somewhat modeled after Andrew Jackson's home, the Hermitage. In addition, the building also had features of Grecian architecture. Eight massive columns...
The Machinery Building, also called Machinery Hall, at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. The architectural style was an example of Greek Doric and served as a perfect complement to the Parthenon, which appeared on the opposite...
This general view of the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition features the Parthenon and the Memphis Pavilion in the foreground of the image. The Commerce Building, the Education Building and the Giant See-Saw are in the background of...
Country life; Baseballs; Women; Sewing; Fireplaces; Home labor; Dogs; Cats; Poultry; Porches; Swings; Baseballs
Two farm women sit beside a fireplace sewing covers on baseballs as two children play with kittens on the floor. Background features a young man sitting on a porch swing and playing with a dog.
This map illustrates the railroad routes of the United States and Canada that were in operation and in progress circa 1864. State boundaries and state capitals are shown. An inset in the lower right corner features the area covered by Pacific...
This page features a list of signatures from the "Brass," the POWs who were military officers at Stalag Luft III along with Mitchener. The previous page includes autographs of the other men who were in the POW camp.
This page (and the following three pages) features a poem or song called "Kriege's Lament," written by Willie Munger. The poem has an a-b-a-b rhyme scheme and is seventeen stanzas long. The subject is the return home of the American POWs to their...
