William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the "New Falls at Tivoli." The three segemented falls are pictured in the foreground, surrounded by wooded hillsides near Tivoli. Strickland gives a brief history of the falls.
Groups of men with horse-drawn carriages are gathered at the town square next to the courthouse. A flock of turkeys are gathered and the men are watching them.
Excerpts from a small handwritten diary written by Nannie Haskins, a young girl of Clarksville, Tennessee. Provides an insight into the day to day activities of an observant young girl. Haskins was strongly in support of the Confederacy and loathed...
William Strickland's sketch of an unnamed suspension bridge crossing the Saone River. Strickland provides detailed descriptions of the bridge, as well as measurements. The sketch covers two pages in the sketchbook.
U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. Barrels lie near the left of the building, and a guard with a bayonet fixed on his rifle stands in the foreground. The Capitol and several downtown buildings can be seen in the background.
U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. A guard with bayonet fixed on his rifle stands in foreground. The Capitol and several downtown buildings can be seen in the background.
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Letter from Sarah Hamilton to Thomas Williams. She discusses patients at the war hospital in Columbia, rumors of the Yankees at Franklin and concern for her son, "Tommie."
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Elkton Rosenwald School under construction. The white clapboard structure has a front porch supported by two columns. From the exterior view, the building appears to be a three-teacher Rosenwald design. A vintage automobile is parked in the...
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Front and side views of the white school at Walnut Grove in Sumner County. Though the building is of simple clapboard construction, fretwork decorates the front porch roof.
The York Agricultural Institute, showing the front of the school building and several vehicles parked in the drive. York established the institute in Jamestown, the Fentress County seat, in an effort to provide rural children with an education. ...
Former slave in talks with a former master whose continued paternal and patriarchal spirit is supposedly expressed in his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.
This is another page of the Christmas program that was given to the POWs at Stalag Luft III in 1944. It includes the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "O Come All Ye Faithful." The program lists carols performed by the "troubador group" on...
