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This collection houses correspondence, day books, photographs, legal and financial materials, newspaper articles, genealogical materials, and other items documenting the Divine family of Tazewell and Johnson City, Tennessee. Over half of the items pertain to Major Paul E. Divine; the remainder were created by Lulu Belle (Milburn) Divine, W. E. F. Divine, Florence Ella (Williams) Milburn, Blaine Milburn, and Milburn Sis Divine.

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Collection contains a mounted photograph of the 1st Tennessee Regiment on board a transport ship. The portraits of two colonels of the 1st Tennessee Regiment, Colonel William Crawford Smith and Colonel Gracey Childers, are inset into the photograph.

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This collection contains the papers, photographs, diaries, and personal effects of Robert Morris Travis, who served as a private, corporal, and sergeant in the U. S. Army's 4th Infantry for thirty years. Among these materials are copies of Morris's book, Sketches from the History of an Adventurous Life, which describes his time in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

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This collection consists of one scrapbook from S. B. Newman which contains a collection of Spanish-American War envelopes. Each envelope in the scrapbook contains an identifiable logo concerning the war.

Abstract This collection consists of several documents in Spanish from the time of the Spanish-American War in the Philippines in 1898. The first document is a notice of an administrative inspection of the dock yard and ships, dated January 22, 1898. The next documents are letters regarding military plans relating to the cruiser Don Juan de Austria and to the delivery of two other boats, dated March 31 and April 15, 1898. The final document is an appraisal of the materials and wages required to fully...

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This collection contains three photographs of Camp Poland in Knoxville, Tennessee showing the review of the 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, and the 31st Michigan and 1st Georgia camps. One is dated September 1898.

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This collection consists of a letter and envelope from May 1934 from the United Spanish War Veterans, Jackson Camp #30, urging people to continue supporting the league and its politicians.