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Title: Athenaeum
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1880 - 1889
Abstract: A photograph of the campus of the Atheaeum Rectory.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Historic Collection
Contributing Institution: The Athenaeum Rectory
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000597
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| 252 |
Title: Workers in spinning room
Photographer : unknown
Associated name : Bemis Brothers Bag Company
Date Created: 1910
Abstract: George Reeves and women workers in the spinning room of the cotton mill in Bemis, Tennessee.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Bemis Collection
Contributing Institution: Union University
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001317
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| 253 |
Title: Mount Zion Baptist Church Women's Organization
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1870 - 1910
Abstract: This photograph is titled, "Mount Zion Baptist Church Women's Organization".
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Beck Cultural Exchange Center
Contributing Institution: Beck Cultural Exchange Center
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002111
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| 254 |
Title: The Daugherty sisters
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1890 - 1915
Abstract: This photograph is titled, "The Daugherty sisters". The picture is of five women who are formally dressed stand for a group portrait. The women were residents of Englewood, Tennessee. Written on the verso side is: the Daugherty Sisters. L-R: Elsie (teacher), Arlie, Minnie (milliner), Eva, Emma.
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=200800000002052
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| 255 |
Title: Telephone exchange in Gallatin, Tennessee in the 1930s
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1933
Abstract: Telephone service began in Gallatin, Tennessee (Sumner County) in 1883. This photograph was taken ca. 1933.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution: Sumner County Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000002812
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| 256 |
Title: Young Jennie Cheairs
Photographer : unknown
Associated name : Jennie Cheairs
Date Created: 1850 - 1860
Abstract: Photograph of Jennie Cheairs, Nathaniel and Susan Cheairs' eldest daughter. In a daguerreotype case patented in 1856-1857.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Collection: Cheairs Family Collection
Contributing Institution: Rippavilla Plantation
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000384
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| 257 |
Title: Cooks at a construction site of the L and N Railroad
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1905
Abstract: 2 tifs. Two photographs of cooks during the construction of the main line of the L and N Railroad near McGhee, Tennessee. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad (the L and N Railroad) was chartered in 1850 and operated as the primary Southern railroad for over 150 years. Although the rail had merely 180 miles of track when it began, extending from Louisville, Kentucy to Nashville, Tennessee, the system comprised over 7,000 miles at its completion in 1982. The second image shows a tent which may have been used as a dining hall for the workers on the rail.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Greenback Collection
Contributing Institution: Blount County Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001522
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| 258 |
Title: Group Portrait
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900 - 1910
Abstract: This posed group mounted photograph comes from a collection of 66 photographs that shows educated and successful African-Americans living in Knoxville between the approximate dates of 1900-1910. As indicated on the photograph in the first row, 5th from the left, is Dr. C. S. Boyd, a dentist who maintained a successful office in Knoxville at this time.
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=200700000002680
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| 259 |
Title: Women employees in the Eureka Cotton Mills in Englewood, Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1916
Abstract: This photograph is titled, "Women employees in the EUreka Cotton Mills in Englewood, Tennessee". In the picture two women are working and two other women are posing for this picture taken inside the Eureka Cotton Mills in Englewood, Tennessee. According to the book, Then and Now, some of these women were spinners who kept the spinning machines operational.
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=200800000002060
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| 260 |
Title: 1946 RC Cola Softball Team, Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1946
Abstract: 1946 RC Cola Softball team photo from Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee - Front row - Betsy Jackson, Joan Hutcheson, Jackie Satterfield, Dot Eddleman B row Mac Shirley, Coach, Katherine Satterfield, Bessie Coffie, Lucille Johnson, Margaret Kerr, W.E. Harlan, Sponsor
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: General Collections
Contributing Institution: Mt. Pleasant Maury Phosphate Museum
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000377
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| 261 |
Title: Josephine A. Pearson, Mrs. James S. Pinkard and a Confederate veteran
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1920-08
Abstract: Scrapbook page containing a photo of Anti-suffragists with a Confederate veteran at their headquarters at the Hermitage Hotel in August 1920. The caption reads: "Truth crushed to the Earth will rise again" - is illustrated in this lovely picture of Mrs. Jas. S Pinkard, President General of the Southern Women's League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, who as grand-niece of John C. Calhoun - unfurls the Confederate flag as emblematical of Southern States Rights fight for the defeat of the Federal Amendment; to her left sits the veteran who "fought and bled" for Tennessee's States Rights; standing to his left, holding the flag of the Union, is Miss Josephine A. Pearson, Pres. of the Tenn. Division of the Southern Women's Rejection League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, who led the fight in Tennessee which became the BattleGround of the nation. August 1920.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State Library and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200700000001462
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| 262 |
Title: Mildred Seay
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1942 - 1945
Abstract: Photograph of female African American soldier by the name of Mildred Seay in uniform. Most likely involved in World War II. For more information ask Mary Harris.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Historical Collection
Contributing Institution: Roy Bailey African-American Museum and History Center
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002318
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| 263 |
Title: Embroidery Club
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1890 - 1910
Abstract: A group of women sit on the steps of an unidentified building. Verso side of the photo reads: Cleveland, Embroidery Club, near the turn of the century.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Cleveland Public Library History Branch Collection
Contributing Institution: Southeast Tennessee Digital Archive Cleveland State Community College
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000278
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| 264 |
Title: Isabelle Daniels with forms for her Pan-American Games uniform
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1955
Abstract: Isabelle Daniels, a member of the Tennessee A and I State College Tigerbelles, fills out the paperwork for her parade uniform for the 1955 Pan-American Games in Mexico City, Mexico. She won a silver medal in the 60 meter dash and gold medal as part of the 4x100 relay team. In the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956, she won a bronze medal with the 4x100 relay team. She also won medals during the 1958 Goodwill Tour through Moscow, U.S.S.R.; Budapest, Hungary; Warsaw, Poland; and Athens, Greece.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Walter S. Davis Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State University - Special Collections and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002029
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| 265 |
Title: Group or Family Portrait
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1900 - 1910
Abstract: This photograph is just one of a collection of African-Americans between 1900-1910 and is particularly interesting it shows educated and successful African-American men and women living in the Mid-South long before the doctrine of segregation was officially repudiated. Back row, left to right: Dr. William Valentine and sister, Mrs. Hattie A. Boyer. Front row, left to right: Mary Valentine; Sarah Allen; Emma Sharp; and Minnie Bronner.
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=200800000001407
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| 266 |
Title: Georgia Robertson Christian College photograph
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1897 - 1908
Abstract: Black and white photograph labeled "Georgia Robertson Christian College Henderson, Tenn." A large crowd of people are standing and sitting in front of a building. On the verso side, the name Fannie Brown is written in faint ink and is undated. Georgia Robertson Christian College existed between 1897 and 1908, which today is Freed-Hardeman College.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Collection: Georgia Robertson Christian College Photograph, undated
Contributing Institution: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001422
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| 267 |
Title: Elizabeth West Walton in 1886
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1886-01-24
Abstract: This is a cabinet card photograph of Elizabeth West Walton with a list of her marriage, children, and grandchildren handwritten on the back. The back of the card reads: "McMinnville, Tenn. Jan. 24th, 1886. Lizzie Walton; Elizabeth West Walton; married George Hiram Pickering 6-6-1888 and died 11-3-1931; 3 daughters Nancy Louise (Roy Jarratt); Virginia (never married); Emma Cook ("Cookie") (Davis); 3 son Charles Pickering; Walton "; Paul "; grandmother of Walton Jarratt."
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Pickering Collection
Contributing Institution: Clarksville Montgomery County Public Library
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000001566
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| 268 |
Title: Davis Hall, the Orient and the Rotunda of The Athenaeum
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1880 - 1890
Abstract: This photograph is titled, "Davis Hall, the Orient and the Rotunda of the Athenaeum". The Athenaeum operated from 1852 to 1903 and was a unique educational institution for women. The founder, Rev. Franklin Gillete Smith believed that female intellegence was equivalent to that of man. As a result of this, the school offered courses that were previously taught only to men. (physics, calculus,etc.) The schoolhad a sixteen thousand-volume library and a museum with six thousand specimens.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Historic Collection
Contributing Institution: The Athenaeum Rectory
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002284
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| 269 |
Title: Wyomia Tyus in her Tennessee State University uniform, 1968
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1968
Abstract: Wyomia Tyus, one of the Tigerbelles of Tennessee State University, earned fame through her success in the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games. In 1964, she won the gold medal in the 100 meters and a silver in the 4x100 meter relay. In 1968 she became the first woman to defend the 100 meter title by winning the gold medal, and also won a gold medal for the 4x100 relay.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Walter S. Davis Collection
Contributing Institution: Tennessee State University - Special Collections and Archives
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002031
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| 270 |
Title: Athenaeum
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1880 - 1889
Abstract: A tinted photograph of a building on the grounds of the Athenaeum Rectory with two female students posed sitting on the front steps.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Collection: Historic Collection
Contributing Institution: The Athenaeum Rectory
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000596
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| 271 |
Title: Studio portrait of Daisy and Jenny Carruth and Clarice Weaver
Photographer : unknown
Associated name : Community Action Group of Englewood (CAGE)
Date Created: 1920 - 1935
Abstract: Soon after the Eureka Cotton Mills moved to Tellico Junction/Englewood, the Carrutth sisters came from Polk County, Tennessee to find employment and settle into a company house in the Yellow Top section of town. They worked before and during the Great Depression. When the cotton mills closed in the 1930s Daisy found work with the Tennessee Hosiery Mill as a looper. Dressed in their "Sunday Best" are (from left to right): Daisy Carruth (1885-1969), Clarice Weavere (a friend) and Jenny Carruth (1887-1934). The above content comes from the book, Then and Now: The Women of Englewood's Textile Mills.
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=200800000000493
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| 272 |
Title: Women workers in a textile factory
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1945 - 1965
Abstract: Over a dozen female employees sit while working in a textile company in East Tennessee. There are plants in the room, as well as electric lights and fans. The room has large windows and a high ceiling. Most of the women wear some sort of covering on their head.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
Postwar United States (1945-1970)
Collection: Englewood Textile Museum
Contributing Institution: Englewood Textile Museum
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000000492
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| 273 |
Title: Dining Hall Gang, 2
Photographer : unknown
Date Created: 1930 - 1932
Abstract: This photograph shows members of what Louise Rankin referred to as the State Teachers College "dining hall gang" during the 1930s.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Cooper Photographic Collection
Contributing Institution: Albert Gore Sr. Research Center
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002325
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| 274 |
Title: Martin College for Girls and Young Women, Pulaski, Tenn.
Printer : unknown
Date Created: 1930 - 1950
Abstract: This postcard is titled, "Martin College for Girls and Young Women, Pulaski, Tenn.". Postcard showing Martin College for Girls and Young Women in Pulaski, Tenn.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Postcard Collection
Contributing Institution: Giles County Historical Society
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002275
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| 275 |
Title: A Group of Martin College Girls, Pulaski, Tenn.
Printer : unknown
Date Created: 1930 - 1950
Abstract: This postcard is titled, "A Group of Martin College Girls, Pulaski, Tenn.". It is a picture of a group of young women at Martin College that appears to be a graduating class. The postcard title is printed in red ink in the center bottom of the picture.
Tennessee State Department of Education Eras:
The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Collection: Postcard Collection
Contributing Institution: Giles County Historical Society
URL: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200800000002276
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