A waterfront view showing three African American men. One man sits at the edge of the river near a mule-powered ferry. The second man is on the ferry with two mules. The third man sits above the bank on a cliff. Rocks, driftwood and a large iron...
Three men and one woman picking huckleberries using bark baskets. They are, left to right: Rev. Jesse Laws, Mona Roberts, Harmon Roberts, and Tom Faulkner.
Four men, three of them American American, load and unload goods at a river landing. The men are using a gangplank to access the riverboat. One man holds chickens and a package in his hand. A riverboat captain stands in the background.
This printed page reads,"A Wartime log for British Prisoners." The diaries were distributed to prisoners during World War II by the War Prisoners Aid of the Y.M.C.A. The item was published in Geneva, Switzerland. Mitchener has added a question mark...
This is the cover of Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr.'s diary during his incarceration as a prisoner of war at the Stalag Luft III camp in Zagan, Poland, during World War II.
Abstract of provisions issued to the troops of the Confederate States of America Artillery of Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk's Corps by the Commissary of Subsistence at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Document includes date issued, numbers of men and...
Confederate voucher No. 4, account of the payroll for eight men: two clerks, one office clerk, and five men in charge of driving cattle, for terms of 29, 31, 62, and 92 days, and ranging from $36.35 to $115.00. Signed by Captain and Assistant...
Portrait photographs; People; Men; Military personnel; Soldiers; Uniforms; Military uniforms
Bust portrait of Adelbert A. Carrier in Federal uniform. An inscription on the back reads, "Yours Truly Adelbert A. Carrier, Liberty, Sullivan Co., N. Y."
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Work Camps; African Americans -- Segregation
Aerial view of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp at the Shelby City Negro State Park, renamed the T. O. Fuller State Park. The camp with its long barracks and the roads leading through the heavily forested park are easily visible.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Forests and forestry
Six African American Civilian Conservation Corps recruits thinning trees and clearing brush along an unknown freeway. They are stacking trimmed branches and bushes into a flatbed truck on the road.
Alex Occoma, a 100-year-old Cherokee Indian, standing on a hillside. He wears patched and torn overalls and shirt and is leaning on a pole or long stick. Mountains visible in the background.
Printed and handwritten one-page Form No. 27, List of Quartermaster's Stores, has been altered by Lieutenant Wingate T. Robinson to reflect a transfer of serviceable and unserviceable horses from his Commander, Captain E. W. Bass of Company K, 5th...
Alvin C. York discussing a question about the deferment of Clyde Bowden with Mrs. J. J. Gunter, the registrant's mother, and his stepfather, Jim Gunter.
Alvin York (center) standing with film producer Jesse Lasky (right of York) and his son Jesse Jr. (left of York) in front of a building in Jamestown, Tennessee. Two other men can be seen talking to the left of York and his associates, and a man...
A man wearing a hat is lying on the ground holding a rifle, the barrel of which rests on a log. Another man stands to his left. Jesse Lasky is among the ten other men and boys who also appear in the photograph.
