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 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 photograph of The Wallace University School baseball squad, Nashville, Tennessee, between 1914 and 1933. This university preparatory school was founded in 1886 by headmaster Clarence B. Wallace, who had earned his M. A. at the University of...
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 postcard of the Hayden and Brown Sanitarium in Nashville, Tennessee. A private sanitarium originally established circa 1906 in East Nashville by Drs. Hayden and Brown, for the treatment of alcohol and drug additions and diseases of the nervous...
A postcard of the Nashville Young Men's Christian Association, an eight-story, fire proof building, located at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Union Street and Capitol boulevard in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1912, the Y. M. C. A....
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,...
Front of a black and white postcard, circa 1942, depicting WWII military maneuvers in Tennessee, from official photographs of the U. S. Army and Marine Corps. Between September 1942 and March 1944 nearly one million soldiers trained in the...
Pictured: “… the Fire Direction Center, demonstrated by Headquarters Battery, First Battalion, Sergt. Leo Britt is shown explaining the working of a rangefinder to his mother, Mrs. L. J. Britt (left), and his fiancée, Miss Louise Harris. All...
Pictured: “’Big Boy Sarg,’ a two-year-old Great Dane, the mascot of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, condescended to look over the proceedings of the day accompanied by, left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and...
Pictured: “Among the soldiers marching past the admiring crowd was Sergt. Dixon Johnson, Headquarters, Second Battalion, third from left in the line of march shown. Sergeant Johnson is a reporter for The Banner who is on leave of absence to...
Pictured: “At 11:30 o’clock, families and friends gathered in the church for worship with the uniformed men. The little white frame church of the 181st was filled to overflowing as large groups of people file past the door and shook hands with...
Pictured: “Battery B demonstrated how successfully the 155-mm howitzer may be camouflaged from air attack or observation by the use of a “fishnet,” a wire canopy hung with burlap rags. In the photo are: left to right, Sergt. Robert L....
Pictured: “Camp Forrest reechoed to the martial blare of the 181st Field Artillery Band as the former Tennessee National Guard filed past the reviewing crowds of friends and relatives who assembled in the training camp for the first Family Day,...
Pictured: “Captain W. R. Binkley of Nashville, Battery E, is shown in the background as he puts the boys through the paces for early morning groups who braved rain and mud to see the demonstration of the four and one-half ton 155-mm. howitzer.”...
Pictured: “Crowds wandered through the regimental area during the entire afternoon, and like the one shown above, they milled about, inspecting [?], mess halls, day rooms, and supply stores at will.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from...
Pictured: “Dr. Vincent L. Fuqua, extreme right …. head of … foods, fertilizers and dairies, took a lively interest in the Army’s portable stoves which may be fastened into the back of trucks and will prepare food to be served when the...
Pictured: “From Columbia, Tenn., came Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilson, shown above with their son, Hammond Wilson, Battery A. Joe and Jane Wilson, brother and sister of Private Wilson, had a big time on this, their first visit to an Army training...
Pictured: “Lieut. William M. Hart of Columbia, of Battery A, had as his special luncheon guests, his wife and little daughter, Lisbeth Miller Hart. Mrs. Hart and Lisbeth were among the many wives and children of officers and enlisted men who had...