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Title: Rebel Claim No. 32
Applicant : William Porch May
Date Created: 1868-05-12
Abstract: Rebel Claims form filed by Tennessee citizens after the end of the Civil War. If approved, they received compensation for supplies taken by armies during the war.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Rebel Claims
Contributing Institution: Bolivar-Hardeman County Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003542
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| 427 |
Title: 1829 Apr. 10 [between] William R. Cockeran and Samuel Houston
Signer : William R. Cockeran
Signer : Samuel Houston
Date Created: 1829-04-10
Abstract: This document is a license dated April 10, 1829 allowing William R. Cockeran to operate an Ordinary within his home in Tennessee, authorized by Samuel Houston, Governor of Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Tennessee State Library, Miscellaneous documents
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002938
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| 428 |
Title: Rebel Claim No. 187
Applicant : William S. Carson
Date Created: 1868-05-03
Abstract: Rebel Claims form filed by Tennessee citizens after the end of the Civil War. If approved, they received compensation for supplies taken during the war.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Rebel Claims
Contributing Institution: Bolivar-Hardeman County Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003538
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| 429 |
Title: Bill for keeping Henry Trent in the Maury County jail, 1835
Author : William Vorhies
Date Created: 1835-0507
Abstract: This document is a bill which shows the cost of keeping Henry Trent in the Maury County jail from November 4, 1834 until May 5, 1835. For this period of 182 days, at 37 1/2 cents per day, the cost was $69.25 - $68.25 + $1.00 for the turnkey.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: General Records
Contributing Institution: Maury County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001295
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| 430 |
Title: State of Tennessee vs. Wyatt Collilns
Defendant : Wyatt Collins
Date Created: 1846
Abstract: Charges, subpoenas, and case notes involving Tennessee v. Collins, dealing with illegal voting.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Hawkins County Archives
Contributing Institution: Hawkins County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002827
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| 431 |
Title: Rebel Claim No. 176
Applicant : Wyly B. Edington
Date Created: 1868-06-28
Abstract: Claims filed by Benton County, Tennessee, citizens after the Civil War for damages caused by the Confederate Army. The document includes an inventory of the damages. The Confederate Army is referred to in the document as the Rebel Army. The Civil War is identified as the Rebellion. The claim had to include witnesses who could vouch that the claimant had never given "aid, comfort, countenance, or encouragement" to the rebellion.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Benton County Court Records
Contributing Institution: Benton County Archive
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000996
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| 432 |
Title: Amenesty Oath for J.C. Ramsey
Creator : United States of America
Date Created: 1865-11-10
Abstract: This is an amnesty oath taken by J.C. Ramsey following the Civil War pardoning him "for all offences by him committed, arising from participation, direct or implied, in the said rebellion..." Andrew Johnoson was President of the United States at the time the oath was administered.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: James Gettys McGready Ramsey Papers, 1790-1912
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001303
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| 433 |
Title: Certification and license to practice law.
Creator : Knox County Court
Date Created: 1870
Abstract: A certification from the Knox County Courts for T.L. Williams to practice law. The certificate states that as he is twenty-one years old, is a citizen of Knox County, and "of good reputation" that the courts will order him to be certified.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Charles Coffin Papers
Contributing Institution: C. M. McClung Historical Collection
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001265
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| 434 |
Title: Court Records from Vernon, Tennessee
Author : Hickman County Court
Date Created: 1813
Abstract: Court records from Hickman county, Vernon, Tennessee that includes the arrest warrant, remanding one Isaac Schall into the Hickman County Sheriff`s custody, transcript from the Hickman County proceedings, and an order to transfer case to the Maury County Circuit Court.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: General Records
Contributing Institution: Maury County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001299
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| 435 |
Title: Crime report reveals menace of integration
Distributor : Association of Citizens` Counsils of Mississippi
Date Created: 1954
Abstract: Association of Citizens` Councils flyer presenting crime statistics in order to claim that integration would be harmful to whites. The Association of Citizens` Councils was a pro-white, anti-integration organization founded in Mississippi in 1954.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Dalton Segregation Documents
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003242
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| 436 |
Title: Exterior of Robinson's Drugstore
Associated name : Robinson's Drugstore
Date Created: 1925-07
Abstract: Photograph of people crowded around outside Robinson's Drugstore in Dayton. They are waiting to hear the latest news from the Scopes Trial.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Looking Back at Tennessee Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002715
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| 437 |
Title: Freight tariff of the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
Attributed name : Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
Date Created: 1910-03-23
Abstract: This item is Supplement No. 1-1/2 to Johnson City Tariff 2, freight tariff on local rates for crushed stone and screenings from Quarry Siding, Tenn. to Johnson City, Tenn. at a rate of 30 cents per cubic yard. The minimum carloads on crushed stone was 40 cubic yards; screenings were 24 cubic yards. The supplemental tariff was submitted by J. J. Campion, Vice President and Traffic Manger, Johnson City, Tenn., and became effective March 28, 1910.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio Railway Records
Contributing Institution: Archives of Appalachia- ETSU
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002615
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| 438 |
Title: Interior of Robinson's Drugstore
Associated name : Robinson's Drugstore
Date Created: 1925-07
Abstract: Photograph of the inside of Robinson's Drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee. This drugstore is where the Scopes Trial started. It went out of business in 1982.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Looking Back at Tennessee Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002702
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| 439 |
Title: James Hicks vs. Thomas Read
Compiler : Circuit Court of Henry County
Date Created: 1828
Abstract: Lawsuit for the whipping of a slave named "Billy." The slave`s owner, James Hicks, sued a man named Thomas Read for whipping Billy. Read claimed that Billy had tried to slip a saw knife to prisoners in jail and that he had whipped Billy in punishment. Hicks sued Read for $1000 in damages.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Slave Accounts from Henry County, Tennessee Court Records
Contributing Institution: Henry County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002850
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| 440 |
Title: John Grainger murders Jerry Boach, 1829
Compiler; Scribe : Henry County Circuit Court
Date Created: 1829-12-02
Abstract: Murder case that upon appeal to the state supreme court established self-defense as a legal writ. It`s believed to be the origin of "self-defense" used in the legal system throughout the country today.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Murder In Henry County
Contributing Institution: Henry County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003510
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| 441 |
Title: Message from the United States Senate
Attributed name : United States. Congress. Senate
Date Created: 1798-12
Abstract: This document is a copy of the plea filed by counsel on behalf of William Blount regarding Blount`s plea in the High Court of Impeachment, United States vs. William Blount. Blount was the only Senator ever attempted to be impeached. The federal government subsequently determined that they had no legal right to impeach a Senator and set a legal precedent.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)
Collection: William Blount Papers
Contributing Institution: C. M. McClung Historical Collection
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001593
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| 442 |
Title: Notice from the City of Knoxville to Temple & Thornburg
Author : City of Knoxville, Tennessee
Date Created: 1885-04-23
Abstract: The city of Knoxville notifies Temple and Thornburg that the city will be repaving in front of their lot at 239 and 241 Gay Street between the streets of Resevoir and Vine.
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=200700000001950
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| 443 |
Title: Passenger contract with the Cunard Steam Ship Company
Owner : Cunard Steam Ship Company Limited
Date Created: 1906-09-14
Abstract: This is a contract, signed by Edwin Dalstrom, to transport him to Detroit, Michigan.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Edwin Dalstrom Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003217
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| 444 |
Title: Postcard of the Residence of F.R. Rogers in Dayton, Tennessee
Publisher : F.E. Robinson Co.
Date Created: 1925-1930
Abstract: The home of F.R. Rogers where William Jennings Bryan died shortly after the Scopes Trials (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925)).
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: The Mercer Humanities Lab
Contributing Institution: Bryan College
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000433
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| 445 |
Title: Preacher on a soapbox
Associated name : Dayton (Tenn.)
Date Created: 1925-07
Abstract: Photograph of a preacher on a soapbox. This photograph was taken one block from the Dayton courthouse during the Scopes Trial.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Looking Back at Tennessee Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002712
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| 446 |
Title: Receipt from Burroughs & Taylor Co.
Creator : Burroughs & Taylor Company
Date Created: 1900-03-15
Abstract: This receipt is parts of the John L. DeBow Estate Settlement in 1901. It has an interesting image for "Calf-killer pants" and was mailed as postcard from McMinnville, Tennessee on March 16, 1900.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Smith County Archives
Contributing Institution: Smith County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003416
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| 447 |
Title: Remington Typewriter Company
Associated name : Remington Typewriter Company
Date Created: 1913
Abstract: An advertisement for Remington Typewriter Company stenograpers, which is attached to a lease agreement for a Remington Standard Typewriter and signed by C. P. Simonton of Covington, Tennessee. The date on the lease agreement is March 4, 1913.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Charles P. Simonton Papers
Contributing Institution: University of Memphis Special Collections
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001533
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| 448 |
Title: Rhea County Courthouse
Creator : Tennessee Dept. of Conservation
Date Created: 1925
Abstract: Photograph of the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee. This courthouse is where the Scopes Trial was held in 1925.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Tennessee Department of Conservation Photograph Collection, 1937-1976
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002695
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| 449 |
Title: Ripley Dunlap vs. Alexander McCullough
Compiler; Scribe : Circuit Court of Henry County
Date Created: 1846
Abstract: Records from the case of Ripley Dunlap v. Alexander McCullough. Dunlap purchased slaves from McCullough and later filed suit claiming they were sickly and not healthy as promised. Dr. J. Butler gave a deposition that he examined the body of one of Dunlap`s young slaves and found that her lungs were diseased.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Slave Accounts from Henry County, Tennessee Court Records
Contributing Institution: Henry County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002849
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| 450 |
Title: Slave Gilbert Kills His Master, Armistead W. Forrest, 1845
Compiler; Scribe : Circuit Court of Henry County
Date Created: 1845-11-18
Abstract: A slave kills his master and covers the crime by burning the barn with his master in it. It is the first recorded instance where a slave was given a trial (as opposed to immediate hanging) and other slaves were allowed to testify on his behalf.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Collection: Murder In Henry County
Contributing Institution: Henry County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000003511
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