A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, reading letters in front of their tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898.
The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the...
A studio portrait (seated) of a Nashville soldier, Private John Knopp of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, 1898 at Camp Merritt, California. The card index identifies the soldier as "John Knopp," while the Knopp surname referenced in the regimental...
An 1898 photograph of some of the members of Co. F. of 1st Tennessee Volunteers when in line getting their dinner at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May,...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...
A photograph of two soldiers of the First Tennessee Regiment, mustered into service at Nashville, Tennessee on 26 May 1898. The regiment trained at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, before being sent to the Philippine Islands. The First Tennessee was...
A photograph of Captain James Pierre Drouillard II, the son of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard and James Pierre Drouillard. He was born in Nashville in 1874. His great-grandfather was Anthony Wayne Van Leer, the founder of the iron works,...
An original will of Moses Adams, dated May 20th, 1898. Illustrates the first page of the document. The notation cites the probate to the Davidson County Court on June 13th, 1898. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills, 1780-1925.
An original will of Eliza Baker, dated December 6th, 1898. Illustrates the first page of the document. Baker’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on December 13th, 1898. The notation cites “Minute Book 4, Page 300.”...
A postcard of the Main Building on the Vanderbilt campus between 1898 and 1901. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail tycoon who had never even...
A portrait photograph of Katherine Polk Gale (1838-1916), the author of "Recollections of Life in the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865." Katherine was a daughter of Episcopalian Bishop Leonidas Polk, a Confederate general in the American Civil War...
A wedding photograph of Mrs. Ina Davies McFerrin, the first wife of Dr. Marvin McFerrin, a prominent Nashville, Tennessee dentist. According to the verso inscription, this photograph was "taken Oct. 1898, married, 4th." She was an aunt of Federal...
Located on the corner of 8th Avenue South and Chestnut Street, Fall school was named for Philip Slater Fall, a prominent Nashville businessman and member of the Board of Education from 1865-1867. Since the school had no bell, a flag was put out in...
A postcard of the early St. Thomas Hospital, sometimes referred to as St. Thomas Sanitarium. The hospital is named for its founder, Bishop Thomas S. Byrne of Nashville. In 1898 he bought a mansion home in a residential West End neighborhood on...
An original will of Susan C. Adams, dated October 15th, 1898. Illustrates the first page of the document. Adams’ will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on January 13th, 1905. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills,...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a student folk dance. The caption reads: “With Parent-Teacher Association groups everywhere observing Founders’ Day at their February meetings, the local associations have cooperated by...
An original will of Constantino Alessio, dated February 2nd, 1898. Illustrates the first page of the document, showing a translation of the will in English, by Eugene Gazzo. Includes the original will by Alessio written in Italian, at a place known...
An original will of Mattie G. Allen, dated March 26th, 1898 with a codicil of December 13th, 1899. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on January 6th, 1908. Forms part...
An original will of Thomas P. Ayres, dated November 29th, 1898. Illustrates the first page of the document. Ayres’ will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on September 11th, 1914. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Francis W. Baker, dated October 3rd 1894. Illustrates the first page of the document. According to the notation on the envelope, Baker’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court “June of ’98, Minute...
Announcement of a dance to be held at the close of commencement for the class of 1919. Established in 1883 as a grammar school, Pearl became a high school in the 1897 - 1898 school year. In 1919, Pearl High School was located on 16th Avenue No. at...