Bobby (Robert) Buford plays guitar and sings a blues song with Keith Rodgers playing the harmonica. This takes place in Bobby's home in the city of Pulaski, Virginia.
Women; Military service; World War II; Tennessee Wesleyan College
3 1/2" x 5" black and white photograph (now, sepia) of five
women representing women in military service in World War II for Vocations Day at the college. They are standing in front of the "Old College" building.
A group of women sitting in a semicircle outside in front of a log house crack walnuts. The women hammer the walnut shells on flat rocks in their laps to get to the nut inside. Several women have newspapers under the rocks on their laps to keep...
A group of women sit in chairs outside a log house, cracking walnuts. The women hold a flat rock on their laps and use hammers to hit the walnuts onto the rock to crack their shells. One woman stands and holds her hammer and rock in her hands. ...
Two women kneel on the ground with a large crock between them. The women hold a burlap sack over the edges of the crock. One woman moves a saucepan full of molasses from a rectangular vat to the crock. Other women stand in the background, with...
A group of women sit and stand around a wooden quilting frame set up in front of a log cabin. Ends of the frame are held up by chairs. Two women sew while the three other women adjust the far end of the quilting frame. Three women wear large...
Education; Tennessee Wesleyan College; Students; Women
2 1/2" x 4" black and white photograph (now, sepia) of young women posing on the lawn of Ritter Hall, under the "big elm" tree. The photograph is in a scrapbook on a page with three other photographs. Written on the black page...
Virginia Hall was constructed in 1901 with funds received from Nettie Fowler McCormick. The architect for this building is Louis Sullivan who designed the Chicago skyline. Virginia Hall served Tusculum College as a women's dormitory for most of...
Text of a brochure written by Rev. Edgar Tufts, Principle of
the Girls Department of Lees-McRae Institute, Banner Elk,
North Carolina, describing the plight of young women in the
mountains of Western North Carolina and requesting
scholarship...
Two women kneel on the ground around a stone crock. A burlap sack lines the inside of the crock, held in place by the women's hands. One woman ladles molasses from the cooking vat into the crock with a saucepan. Other crocks and metal tubs sit...
Three women and one man stand around a rectangular vat used to boil sorghum juice into molasses. Two women are bent over, running their fingers along the bottom and sides of the vat. The other woman licks one of her fingers to taste the just-made...
Five women and two young girls stand around a wooden quilting frame set up outside in front of an outbuilding. The women and girl fasten opposite corners of the quilt to the frame. Finished quilts hang over a line in the background. Part of a...