The "City of Memphis" is moored at the shore while cargo is loaded on board via a boom gangplank. Several well dressed men and women seem to be waiting to board. The tall stacks are belching black smoke in preparation for moving. Individuals are...
War; World War, 1914-1918; Canals; Barracks; Military camps; Officers' quarters; Mess halls
This photograph features the "Dead End" of the Ypres Canal in the foreground of the image. Behind it appears the officers' and noncommissioned officers' billets and the mess hall. The caption reads: "All comforts of home. Roulette, Tea and boating...
Six unidentified persons (three women, one of whom appears to be wearing jodhpurs, and three men) standing on the broad front porch of a large, white, two-story frame home with large chimneys at each end of the building.
Seven unidentified persons (three women and four men). According to information attached to photograph one of the men is Jesse Louis Lasky and another is his son, William Raymond Lasky. The older man in double-breasted suit is probably the senior...
Three unidentified men stand in front of a sedan parked on a Carthage, Tennessee, street between a movie theater showing "The Great Victor Herbert" and a Ben Franklin store.
Four unidentified men standing on a gravel road. Two are looking out at the Wolf Forks area; a third has a camera on a tripod, and the fourth is facing the camera. There is a "road closed" sign on the left and the front end of an automobile on the...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Hobart Parrish describing what attracted him to join the Civilian Conservation Corps. He could get an education, earn money, and learn a trade. It was difficult to go to college, and he felt he would get the same preparation in the Civilian...
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...