Five sheets with printing on both sides, entitled "[Form 1.] Bill of Purchase--Commissary's Department. The State of Tennessee." The five bills of purchase deal with blacksmithing a bake oven door; use of labor of two boys, Ely and Lucien; the...
Six page letter highlights conditions that the author deems unpleasant and unsafe for Northern men and freedmen in Nashville during the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. He is writing to an unknown addressee, who, from the...
Broadside promoting the Maury County Colored Fair that was scheduled for November 8, 1883. Participants were urged to take the train from Fayetteville, Lincoln County, or Lewisburg, Marshall County, in order to get to the fair. The cost of the...
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. ...
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Front and side views of the two-story Teachers Home in Whiteville, Hardeman County. The white wooden building has elongated, symmetrical windows and what appears to be a brick basement.
The front plate of William Strickland's European architectural sketchbook. The sketch shows a watercolor drawing of a vine-covered monument with a Latin inscription. The translation reads: "Selected profane and sacred images of Britain and Roman...
