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This collection consists of two letters written by George Washington Campbell in 1806 and 1832, as well as an undated stereograph of Campbell's Nashville, Tennessee mansion. The first letter, dated 1806, is a hand drawn survey and description of George Washington Campbell's land in Maury County, Tennessee. Interestingly, the paper bears a watermark dated 1799. The second letter, dated 1832, concerns his Nashville properties and is addressed to a Mrs. Doherty of North Carolina.

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This collection consists of two pieces of Tennessee themed sheet music entitled "Picture Me In Tennessee" (1915) and "My Sunny Tennessee" (1921). They were both written and published by Irving Berlin and his company based in New York City, New York.

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Christian missionary Hannah Thatcher wrote this letter from the Elliott Mission in the Choctaw Nation to Polly Carpenter and Nancy Sweet in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. In it, she describes her life working as a missionary among the Choctaw in Mississippi.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of two letters written by George L. Garrett, a soldier in the Union Army, one to his father and one to his mother, describing his service as a Private in the Anderson Troop. The letter from his father, set from Bowling Green, Kentucky, describes his suffering an illness that kept him away from his troop, and asking that an earlier request for money be disregarded. The letter to his mother is dated about a month later and discusses General Rosecrans and his religious...

Content Description From the Collection: This collection consists of two letters from Job Barnard, a First Sergeant in Company K, 73rd Indiana Infantry Regiment, to his fiancee Flora Putnam in Berrien Springs[s], Michigan. As a Union soldier, Barnard was stationed in Camden, Alabama, and writes about letters he has received, both from Flora and from friends and family, the goings-on of his regiment, reading poetry and articles in The Atlantic, and remaining friends with another woman. Also included...

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This collection contains 15 political cartoons collected from New York City newspapers from August 1914-August 1915, during the first year of World War I.

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This collection consists of James Tipton's poem America the Elephant on broadsheet from 1974. The poem is based on James Agee's final letter to Episcopal priest, Father James Harold Flye.