Calling card for Alexander Delmar which accompanied a letter to Johnson. The back informs the President's Secretary to direct the President's attention to the letter as soon as possible as Delmar believes that the letter contains information...
newspapers; floods; disasters; college towns; colleges
This is a special edition paper printed by Pikeville College in the aftermath of the Flood of 1977. While its purpose was to seek funding for the college after the crisis, this paper also relates first-hand accounts of the flood and how it...
Photograph of Virginia Hall taken on Commencement day, 1911. The image was taken by a member of the Gray Family, Rev. Dr. Charles Oliver Gray was president of Tusculum from 1908 - 1932.
Contains letters by Eugene V. Debs and John Mitchell published in the Social Democratic Herald concerning the averted strike in 1904 of the United Mine Workers of America.
Erret Weir McDiarmid, President of Milligan College from May 1913- May 1914; President of Hamilton College For Girls in Lexington,KY from 1914-1918; Professor at TCU in Fort Worth, TX from 1918-1937 (his death)
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.; Claiborne County (Tenn.) -- Education. ; Education, Rural -- Tennessee, East. ; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.)
An illustrated article from the "Mountain Herald" about a one-room rural school located at the head of Lonesome Valley, in Claiborne County, Tennessee. The school then furnished "as many or more teachers to Claiborne County than any...
This document is a copy of a Proclamation of President Warren G. Harding, declaring the insurrection in West Virginia unlawful, and entreating the residents of the rioting counties to return to their homes by midnight of September 1, 1921. The...
Entertaining; Guests; Domestic life; Parlors; Historic sites; Bethany College
Strangers' Hall consisted of a formal parlor and two bedrooms. Among the guests who stayed in this wing were James A. Garfield, trustee of Bethany College, President of Hiram and future President of the United States; John C. Calhoun, states rights...
This letter was written by Benjamin C. Callaway to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Wilkes Co. (North Carolina) and states his occupation...
This letter was written by Tod R. Caldwell to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Burke Co. (North Carolina) and states his occupation as...
This letter was written by David Caldwell to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Alleghany Co. (North Carolina) and states his occupation as...
This letter was written by Thomas A. Butler to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Macon Co. (North Carolina) and does not state his...
This letter was written by Carter Burnett to President Andrew Johnson in response to the President's Amnesty Proclamation of 29 May 1865. The writer indicates his county of residence as Rutherford Co. (North Carolina) and states his occupation as...