Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

These three stereographs are part of a series entitled The Beauties Around Montvale Springs, East Tennessee. They were produced by T. M. Schleier of the American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium in Knoxville, Tennessee. Two of the images portray waterfalls, and the third shows several people sitting by a stream.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

These three stereographs are part of a series entitled The Beauties Around Montvale Springs, East Tennessee. They were produced by T. M. Schleier of the American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium in Knoxville, Tennessee. Two of the images portray waterfalls, and the third shows several people sitting by a stream.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

These three stereographs are part of a series entitled The Beauties Around Montvale Springs, East Tennessee. They were produced by T. M. Schleier of the American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium in Knoxville, Tennessee. Two of the images portray waterfalls, and the third shows several people sitting by a stream.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection consists of an 1870 broadside printing of the poem "Adam and Eve in Paradise" by Mrs. Francis B. Fogg (Mary Rutledge Fogg) of Nashville.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Howard Bridgman Diary chronicles the daily activities of a TVA mailroom worker during the first few months of 1936. This handwritten diary of about 56 pages (approximately 13,000 words) records important events in TVA's history, such as the opening of Norris Dam and the decision in the George Ashwander case against the agency, while documenting the mundane details of working in the TVA mailroom. Bridgman also discusses the southern labor movement, the Communist Party, and the Highlander...

Transcription of Letter Nashville, June 15th, 1863 Col. Wm [Truesdail] Chief Army Police, Your favor of the 13th inst. was handed me yesterday by Capt. Fyffe. It is all right and satisfactory, in regard to the [illegible] case. I only wrote you to let you know the parties I had authorized to bring out their cotton. I shall expect you, and thank you to cooperate with me--we are all in the same glorious cause of the country against the Rebellion. Please see that no one brings out cotton who does...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Howard Bridgman Diary chronicles the daily activities of a TVA mailroom worker during the first few months of 1936. This handwritten diary of about 56 pages (approximately 13,000 words) records important events in TVA's history, such as the opening of Norris Dam and the decision in the George Ashwander case against the agency, while documenting the mundane details of working in the TVA mailroom. Bridgman also discusses the southern labor movement, the Communist Party, and the Highlander...

Scope and Contents Note Nashville June 17th 49 Friend Douglass I expect that you think by this time that I had either forgotten you or had died with the cholera, but no such thing. . . . I suppose that you have heard how dreadfully the cholera has been at work here, and I expect the good people of Lebanon are so frightened that they will be afraid to receive a letter from this place for fear that it (this letter) has that dreadful malady, and only waits, like Pandora's box, to be opened to...

Scope and Contents Note Nashville 14th Nov 1843 William K. Blair Esq.Dear Sir Bro.A copy of the By Laws of your Lodge was handed to me this morning by Dr. Kenney for the approval of the Grand Lodge, that Body discontinued its labours the First-Week in October last, therefore your By Laws cannot be acted on until the next session of the Grand Lodge, you will therefore be governed by them until that time as there is no power but your [illegible] that can alter or change them. I...

Translation of Letter 25 January 1944My dear Irmgard,Yesterday (on Sunday) I had already eaten in the sun at midday, since the sun shines so warmly here. Only nights and mornings are somewhat cold. Have you already thought that it is 12 in the afternoon for you when it is 6 in the morning for us here? Last Friday, I and about five of my comrades were outside of the camp for three hours taking a walk. That was really an adventure, we always walk through the forest to a reservoir. The woods here...