A group of five African-American girls are gathered together near a wooden fence and wooden house. Several of the girls are smiling. A white woman in a long dress can be seen in the background walking the other way.
35mm slide showing a tightly packed group of dignitaries and onlookers. Sgt. York and Gov. Cooper can be identified in the center; Gracie York is partially hidden. Red, white, and blue banners hang from the building and a convertible automobile....
Loom-woven red, white, and black wool coverlet, thought to be a wedding gift for Algie Clifton Moore and Alice Epperson or William Wesley Conrad Moore and Susan Elizabeth Murfree. All were from Humphreys Co., Tenn. "Billy Moore was a trooper in the...
Red and white Whig's Defeat quilt. The quilt was found in a house built by Daniel Cleage. A label on the back of the quilt reads "Mrs. C. A. Beard, Athens, Tennessee." A single letter E is stitched on the quilt top in black thread. C. A....
Mounted black and white photograph of an arbor at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. In the background is a view of the Westside Clubhouse for visitors.
Schools; Rural schools; Public schools; Educational facilities
Front and side views of War Creek School, a white educational facility in Hancock County. The two-story, clapboard schoolhouse is topped with a steeple and set amid a stand of trees.
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.
Vietnamese man squatting down, holding vegetation he has just cut. He is wearing a white shirt with sunglasses tucked into the front, khaki pants, and a hat with a narrow brim. He is working at the Vung Chua Mountain base located just north of Qui...
An older Vietnamese man in a military boonie hat and black jacket who worked on the signal base on Vung Chua Mountain, probably as a grass-cutter. He wears a white shirt under his jacket and is smiling.
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...
U. S. brass powder flask, part of the accoutrements of the rifle regiment, 1842-1855. The name of the manufacturer, Beatty, is imprinted on the back. By 1855, these types of flasks were eliminated from the armory, but were often used in the early...
Strickland's watercolor drawing of the Tomb (Pyramid) of Caius Cestius, showing the pyramid in the foreground. Also shown are the Roman walls, and the Porta San Paolo gates. Also in the foreground is the Protestant Cemetery. Strickland provides...
Studio portrait of Oliver Rodgers, Co. G, 44th Ill. Vol. Inf., USA, wearing uniform and kepi. His cheeks are hand-tinted, and his left hand rests inside his frock coat at chest level. Rodgers enlisted in Chicago and fought at Perryville, Stones...
Henry Osborn, Co. F, 8th Tennesee Infantry, CSA. Osborn is pictured holding his pistol. He was wounded in upper chest and shoulder at Stones River in Murfeesboro, Tennessee. He married Armilda Copeland in Overton County, Tennessee. They had six...
Small tintype in octagonal gutta-percha case. Both her husband, James Knox Moore, and father, Stephen Richardson Moore, were Confederate soldiers. Miller is wearing a white dress and is seated.
This etching features a front view of the White House that includes the fountain on the front lawn. At the bottom of the drawing, the Wall name appears with the date 1937, and Wall signed the etching below. The inspiration image comes from the...
