"The Naturalist" article, page 311, contains an illustration of the various stages of the peach-tree worm. The writing is done under the Agricultural Department section of the serial and emphasizes the fact that entomology was a frequent subject...
"The Naturalist" article, pages 166-167, about the difficulties of harvesting grapes. The article provides information on how to harvest a grape crop successfully. The author notes that native grapes are better suited to this country than foreign...
Portrait drawings; Portrait prints; Indian agents; Book illustrations
A half-length portrait, facing right, wearing a stylish suit and war paint. He is shown seated at a desk with letters on the desktop, to indicate the literacy of the Cherokee.
Awards; Rewards of Merit; Political parties; Partisan politics; Political organizations; Political patronage; Municipal government
A pen and ink drawing of Tammany Hall in New York City. The three-story building is located on a street corner. The inscription reads: "Tammany Hall, New York City, where Andrew Jackson attended a public dinner on February 23, 1819. Collection of...
Railroads; Railroad construction & maintenance; Construction; Embankments
A pen and ink sketch of a transverse view of an embankment on the Great Western Railway. The sketch shows Strickland's descriptions of the details used in the erection of railroad embankments.
Broadsides; Fraternal organizations; Fraternal lodges; Civil rights leaders
Advertisement for "Negro History Week and Masonic History Day." The Honorable John Wesley Dobbs will speak. An image of John Wesley Dobbs is included on the broadside.
Broadside advertising a three-day fair to be staged at the Fayetteville Fairgrounds beginning October 10, 1872. This was to be the first annual fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association to be held in Fayetteville. ...
Broadsides; announcements; pancakes & waffles; sausages; coffee; fund raising
Broadside advertising an "Aunt Jemima Pancake and Tennessee Pride Sausage Supper" sponsored in support of Meharry Medical College by the Meharry Wives Club. Included is a list of the donors who supplied the food.
Broadside advertising an NAACP City-Wide Mobilization Meeting at Fisk University, featuring a speech by Thurgood Marshall, Chief Legal Council for the NAACP. Also speaking are members of the J. C. Napier Lawyers Association. The meeting will...
Broadside entitled "A Letter of Advice: To the Grand Order--the K.K. Klan-- throughout the U. States and Territories of America." The broadside was written by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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...
Medical education; Dental education; Medical students; Universities & colleges; Laboratory schools
Card advertising the thirteenth anniversary of the creation of Meharry Medical College. The ceremony was to be held at the Masonic Threatre in Nashville.
Color engraving of Union soldiers being greeted at a plantation home. An African Amreican family can be seen on the right, a group of women and children stand at the top of the stairs of the house.
Buildings; Universities & colleges; Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.)
Colorized photograph of graduates and other students standing in front of Martin College. Green one-cent George Washington postal stamp is glued on upside down on message side. Handwritten note, "Can you find Lizzie Grey on this?".
Drawing of the agricultural school known as Franklin College illustrates the buildings present and the lay-out of the campus. From the book, "Franklin College and Its Influences," by James E. Scobey.
Family portrait of the Rupper family, from Hebbertsburg, Tennessee, posed in front of two hanging quilts. The image features eight family members. Two quilts hang behind them. One quilt features a Double T pattern, and the other has a series of...
Front cover of the pamphlet, "A, B, C of the Invisble Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." It features a central image of a hooded Klan member above the words, "Faultless, Fearless, and Forever Faithful," and the dates, "1866 - Founded" and "1915...
Soldiers; Military Uniforms; Houses; Trees; Fences
Illustration by George Varian of a Confederate soldier leaning against a fence post gazing at a destroyed house. The caption underneath reads "The Confederate's Return - There was only the shell of the house." The image appears on page 537 of Ida...