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Title: Arrest of Yellow Fever Refugees
Illustrator : unknown
Date Created: 1879-08-23
Abstract: A sketch from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The full caption of the sketch is "Tennessee - Arrest of Yellow Fever Refugees by the Safety Patrol of Memphis." The image is of two men with guns approaching an unarmed family at a refugee camp.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Prints from Harpers Weekly Newspaper and Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002833
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Title: Dr. C.S. Boyd in his dentist's office
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900 - 1910
Abstract: Dr. C. S. Boyd in his dentist's office.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: African-American Photography Collection
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002681
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Title: Major Paul E. Divine
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1890 - 1915
Abstract: Major Paul Eave Divine, military officer and lawyer, was born in May 20, 1871. He worked as Treasurer under Walter P. Brownlow at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Mountain Home, Tennessee, near Johnson City in the first years of the home's operations. These images include a photograph of Major Divine, an organization chart of officers of the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and the house where Major Divine lived while serving as Treasurer. In addition to Divine, the chart lists the following officers: the Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, Local Manager; Col. John P. Smith, Governor; Major J.C. Butler, Surgeon; Captain W.E.F. Milburn, Quartermaster; Captain C.Y. Deadrick, Adjutant; Rev. Ruble, Chaplain and Father Larkin, Chaplain. The Mountain Branch "Old Soldiers Home" is now known as the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001593
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Title: Photographs of Dr. Arthur Jackson Willis of East Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1915 - 1950
Abstract: Dr. Arthur Jackson Ellis was a renowned doctor of Northeast Tennessee in the early 20th century. The picture of Dr. Ellis on his horse, "Old Fred" was taken around 1915 at the "cut" between Embreeville and Bumpus Cove. The next picture is a portrait of Dr. Ellis in his later years. There are two pictures of Dr. Ellis practicing medicine in his office. He is treating a wounded knee, and the individual's face is not shown. Dr. Ellis also works with a small child in his office. The following three photographs are of Dr. Ellis' home and Dr. Ellis with a herd of cows. A re-creation of Dr. Ellis's office with his original furniture is located in the Museum of Mountain Home on the campus of the East Tennesse State University Medical Campus.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001603
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Title: Interior of a textile mill in East Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1890 - 1950
Abstract: This photograph is titled, "Interior of a textile mill in East Tennessee". Although the picture shows a cramped, poorly ventilated, dangerous fire trap by today's legal standards, these jobs were highly sought after during this time.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Englewood Textile Museum
Contributing Institution: Englewood Textile Museum
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002059
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| 56 |
Title: Officers at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900 - 1920
Abstract: A composite photo of the officers of the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. They are: Capt. Kyle M. King, Col. John P. Smith, Major Cy H. Lyle, Capt. C.Y. Deaderick, Rev. James A. Ruble, Major W.T. Erwin, Capt. W.E.F Milburn, Edwin P. Desmond (chaplain). There is an interesting emblem of wings in the center.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000421
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| 57 |
Title: Refugee Camp First Aid Clinic
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1937
Abstract: A first aid clinic at the Fairground Refugee Camp that was set up during the 1937 flood in Memphis. There are shelves with various bottles set up on the back wall, and the room is filled with doctors and nurses and patients.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Memphis and Shelby County Room Photographic Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000201
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| 58 |
Title: Ward Two at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1921
Abstract: 2 tifs. A nurse stands near the door of the empty hospital ward. The windows are opened at the top for ventilation. Verso side reads: Inside picture of Ward 2, showing about one third of the ward. The Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Johnson City, Tennessee housed a hospital with four wards. The hospital at this time was used to care for minor injuries, and was intended more as an infirmary. The Branch could house nearly 4,000 soldiers and was self-sufficient, even including amusement for the veterans including a baseball field and a zoo.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001594
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| 59 |
Title: Dr. Edwin M. Baird
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1870 - 1878
Abstract: Dr. Baird was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on October 17, 1853 and died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on October 13, 1878. After practicing medicine for a relatively short time in Chattanooga, he died from yellow fever and is buried in the Chattanooga where he died.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Chattanooga Times Portrait Collection
Contributing Institution: Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001777
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| 60 |
Title: Refugee Camp Clothing Depot
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1937
Abstract: A clothing depot set up inside the cattle barn at the Memphis fairgrounds. The fairgrounds were being used as a refugee camp during the 1937 flood.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Memphis and Shelby County Room Photographic Collection
Contributing Institution: Memphis Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000202
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| 61 |
Title: Leo Block, ?-1922
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1880 - 1922
Abstract: Leo Block was a buisiness man in Chattanooga, Tennessee who joined with Thomas Oliver Duff in 1919 to form the Duff-Block Drug Company. Leo Block's father, Dr. Marx Block, had been a wholesale drug company owner.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Chattanooga Times Portrait Collection
Contributing Institution: Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001789
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| 62 |
Title: William Wiggins House in Polk County, Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1976-11
Abstract: 2 tifs. The William Wiggins House in Benton, Tennessee is also known as the Dr. J.D. Nuchols House and drugstore. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 because of the significance of its architecture. It was built around 1825.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Contemporary United States (1968-present)
Collection: Images of Benton, Tennessee
Contributing Institution: Nancy Ward Cherokee Foundation
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001571
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| 63 |
Title: Slag heap from coal mine, Wilder, Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1920 - 1939
Abstract: A photograph of four women on a slag heap (waste from coal mining). County: Fentress. detailed location: 8-44
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Wilder Davidson Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee Tech University- Volpe Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001962
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| 64 |
Title: Nurses and dormitory at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900 - 1930
Abstract: These are images of nurses and their quarters at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Mountain Branch, Tennessee. The Home originally included a four ward infirmary which was augmented after soldiers began to return after World War I. The Home was increased to help care for veterans suffering from lung scarring from gas attacks, tuberculosis and influenza. There are approximately 43 nurses pictured here, all in white uniforms. The nurses are standing on the steps of their residence, which was built in the Beaux-Arts style, common to the Mess Hall and other buildings on the grounds.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001602
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| 65 |
Title: Gallatin Fire Brigade, ca. 1900
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900
Abstract: This photograph shows the Gallatin Fire Brigade, circa 1900. They are shown near the south side of Sumner County Courthouse, with the Guthrie building on the left of the picture.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Sumner County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002811
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| 66 |
Title: Photographs of the Memphis Blood Bank
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1938
Abstract: This collection is titled, "Photographs of the Memphis Blood Bank". There are twenty-three photographs and one drawing in this group associated with the facility started by Dr. Lemuel Whitley Diggs. This was the first blood bank in the South and only the fourth in the entire country.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Lemuel Whitley Diggs Collection
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library - Memphis
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002609
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| 67 |
Title: View from the Hospital at Mountain Home, Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1921
Abstract: In this view from the hospital at the Soldiers' Home outside Johnson City, Tennessee, many buildings of the grounds are visible including the power plant, greenhouse, Carnegie Library, and the chapel.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000422
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Title: Colonel Fred J. Close
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900 - 1925
Abstract: Colonel Fred J. Close served on the Board of Managers for the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and later was President of the Board in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000426
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Title: Red Cross ladies
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1914
Abstract: 1 tif. A group portrait of ten women who assisted the Red Cross in World War I. The women wear long white dresses with large pockets and wide lapels, and don white bonnets with the red cross insignia. During the conflict, women worked with the American Red Cross in production, blood donor service, motor corps and other support services for the soldiers abroad. Notations included with the framed photograph contain the following information: Red Cross Ladies, World War I, Morristown, TN, 1914. Left to Right: Mrs. Annie Hill Portrum, Mrs. Frank Nance, Mrs. Judson Hill, Mrs. E.M. Willis, Mrs. Bob Rodgers, Mrs. Lynn Sheeley, Mrs. ____ Thompson, Mrs. Sullins Dosser, Mrs. Shields Carroll and Ann.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Hamblen County Archives
Contributing Institution: Hamblen County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001878
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Title: Jersey Herd at the Mountain Branch of the National Home of Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1921
Abstract: A herd of Jersey cattle outside a dairy barn at the Mountain Branch of the Nationa Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, outside Johnson City.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000423
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| 71 |
Title: The Guard at the Mountain Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1921
Abstract: The police force (or gurad) stand in front of a building at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Mountain Home, Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000420
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Title: W. Hastings Hughes in Rugby, Tennessee to O.P. Temple in Knoxville, Tennessee
Attributed name : W. Hastings Hughes, 1833-1909
Associated name : Oliver Perry Temple, 1820-1907
Date Created: 1881-04-19
Abstract: Hughes requests copy of the State health report and State laws on sanitation and public health.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: The O.P. Temple Papers, 1832-
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002456
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Title: Nomination of Dr. Arthur Jackson Willis for Outsanding General Practitioner of Tennessee
Author : Washington, Carter and Unicoi County Medical Society
Date Created: 1952
Abstract: This is a nomination by the Washington, Carter and Unicoi Country Medical Society of Arthur Jackson Willis for outstanding general practicioner of Tennessee for the year 1952. The manuscript includes as biography of his life and a history of his achievements.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Museum at Mountain Home
Contributing Institution: Museum at Mountain Home-ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003338
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Title: 1808 Oct. 27, of Return J. Meigs
Signer : William McNeil
Associated name : Return J. Meigs, 1740-1823
Date Created: 1808-10-27
Abstract: This document is a receipt for one hundred fifty dollars, dated October 27, 1808, for services performed for smallpox in the Cherokee Nation.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Penelope Allen Collection, 1801-1984
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003072
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Title: 1846 Aug. 28 [to] Mrs. William R. Caswell
Author : William R. Caswell
Recipient : Elizabeth C. Caswell
Date Created: 1846-08-28
Abstract: This document is a letter dated August 28, 1846 from William Caswell to his wife in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Caswell served during the Mexican-American War and was part of the Tennessee volunteers. In this letter Caswell writes news of illness in the camp near Carmango, Mexico.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: William Richard Caswell Papers
Contributing Institution: C. M. McClung Historical Collection
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003001
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