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  • Sergeant Alvin C. York
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    Soldiers; Heroes; Men; Military uniforms; Medals; Military decorations; Awards; Insignia
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    Alvin York in his military uniform displaying three medals: a Tennessee state medal, his Congressional Medal of Honor, and the French Croix de Guerre. Text underneath the image features a quote from Supreme Allied Commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch.
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Advertisement for NAACP Mobilization Meeting at Fisk University Featuring a Speech by Thurgood Marshall
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    Broadsides
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    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...
  • Throwaway History - The Broadside in American Culture
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  • "Keep Our White Schools White"
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    Broadsides; Segregation; Integration; Race relations; Discrimination
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    Broadside announcing an upcoming lecture on the desegregation of schools in Nashville.
  • Throwaway History - The Broadside in American Culture
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  • Call to the District Court of the Confederate States of America for the Middle Division of the District of Tennessee for N. E. Alloway
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    Civil Wars; War
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    Call to the District Court of the Confederate States of America in Nashville by Clerk Jacob McGavock for N. E. Alloway. Alloway is the garnishee, answering the interrogatories of the Court dealing with property and allegiances. Authorization...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • W. Spain's Palace of Illusions and Mirrors
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    Centennial celebrations; Exhibitions; Exhibition buildings; Midways; Mirrors; Entertainment; Optical illusions; Celebrations; Anniversaries; Commemorations; Events; Festivals; Fairs; Forensic photographs
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    Front view of the castle-like structure of W. Spain's Palace of Illusions and Mirror Maze, featured in the Vanity Fair area of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897. A number of men and women are standing at the entrance area, surrounded by...
  • Tennessee Centennial Exposition
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  • State Supreme Court Opinion of Scopes Trial
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Index and Opinion from the Tennessee State Supreme Court case regarding the Scopes Trial of July 1925 questioning the teaching of evolution in public schools. The opinion, filed in January 1927, dismissed the case; on a technicality, adding...
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Marshal Foch and General Pershing
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    World War, 1914-1918; Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948; Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929; Military headquarters; Generals; Military officers
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    Marshal Foch and General Pershing standing outside the General Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces at Chaumont.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Stephen Rust patent
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    Patent issued to Stephen Rust for "Wash Board for Washing Clothes" signed by Andrew Jackson and R.B.Taney. Taney was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1836 until his death in 1864. He is principally remembered for his part in the 1857...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • 1966-issue Republic of Vietnam 500-Dong note
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    Money
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    The front depicts Trang Hung Dao, and the reverse possibly depicts the Battle of Bach Dang River.
  • Chistopher D. Ammons
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  • Correspondence from Arthur H. Harris to George Carroll Harris, January 13, 1861
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    Civil Wars; War
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    This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Tennessee Farmer title and index pages
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    Agriculture
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    Title and index pages from the "Tennessee Farmer," edited by Thomas Emmerson.
  • Nineteenth Century Agricultural Resources

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