Digital Library of Appalachia

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1862 letter from Priscilla Goshorn to her husband William Goshorn in Camp Chase prison camp
Civil War; Prisoners of war; Prisoners; Prisons; Health
This is a letter from Priscilla Goshorn to her husband William while he was incarcerated in Camp Chase during the Civil War. Camp Chase was a federal prison camp in Columbus Ohio where United States citizens who would not sign a loyalty oath to the...
Wheeling Jesuit University

[General Oliver Otis Howard] / by Purdy Studio.
Howard, Oliver Otis -- 1830-1909.; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.) -- History;
This original photograph of Union General Oliver Otis Howard, was made at the Purdy Studio, in Boston. A retired veteran of the Civil War, Howard lectured at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, upon the invitation of Reverend Arthur Aaron Myers at...
Lincoln Memorial University

[Home of Andrew Johnson] / [photographed by R. Gerald McMurtry].
Johnson, Andrew -- 1808-1875.
This photograph shows the home of ex-President Andrew Johnson in Greeneville, Tennessee, which he purchased in 1851; it is located in the region of upper East Tennessee. The statesman was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the year 1808, the son...
Lincoln Memorial University

[House where Andrew Johnson died] / [photographed by R. Gerald McMurtry].
Johnson, Andrew -- 1808-1875.
This photograph shows the home where Andrew Johnson, ex-President of the United States and member of the Senate from Tennessee, died at the house of his daughter, Mrs. W.R. Brown, near Elizabethtown, Carter County, Tennessee in the year 1875. His...
Lincoln Memorial University

Agreement for Members of the United Mine Workers of America
Labor unions; Mining; Coal miners; Labor unions; Labor unions
A collective bargaining agreement for mine workers.
West Virginia Wesleyan College

Agricultural classes / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
Agricultural education -- United States -- Tennessee.; Agriculture -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Agriculture.; Lincoln Memorial University. Agriculture Department.
An article from the "Mountain Herald," about the enrollment increase in the agricultural subjects at Lincoln Memorial University. The classes have been organized in stock, judging, types and breeds, feeds and feeding, farm management,...
Lincoln Memorial University

Agricultural department / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
Agricultural education -- United States -- Tennessee.; Agriculture -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Agriculture.; Lincoln Memorial University. Agriculture Department. ; Universities and colleges--United...
An article from the "Mountain Herald," about the agricultural classes at Lincoln Memorial University in the year 1916 to involve students in practical aspects of agriculture. The processes of testing, using corn as a subject, involves...
Lincoln Memorial University

Agricultural leaders / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
Agricultural education -- United States -- Tennessee.; Agriculture -- United States -- Tennessee -- Study and teaching.; Lincoln Memorial University. Agriculture Department.
An article from the "Mountain Herald," about the Agricultural program and its leaders at Lincoln Memorial University. Some of the recent gifts and loans are identified, as well as the new courses in the program.
Lincoln Memorial University

Alexander Delmar letter
Presidents; Delmar, Alexander; Labor supply;
Letter calling President Johnson's attention to the New York Social Science Review's essay on the national debt and the human resources available to the United States
Tusculum College

America / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
Lincoln Memorial University. Pioneer's Day Convocation. ; York, Alvin Cullum -- 1887-1964.
An article from the "Mountain Herald" about the June, 1925 Commencement Address at Lincoln Memorial University, by Hon. John H. Kirby, of Houston, Texas. The orator's address, "America," began with background on his...
Lincoln Memorial University

Attempt by Communists to seize the American labor movement
Labor unions; Coal miners; Labor unions; Communism
This series of six articles was prepared by the United Mine Workers of America, disclosing the attempt that is being made by the Red forces, under the direct supervision of Moscow, to seize control of the organized labor movement of America and use...
West Virginia Wesleyan College

Brookside and trial (talking)
Mining; Interviews;
Florence Reece (1900-1986) talks in her Harlan County home to a group of high school students from Paideia school in Atlanta. The group is led by John Sundale. Florence's husband, Sam, a retired miner, is also present. Sam was an organizer for...
Warren Wilson College

Campbell Mansion Artifacts; new parlor, 1909
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...
Bethany College

Carter criticism (talking)
Mining; Interviews;
Florence Reece (1900-1986) talks in her Harlan County home to a group of high school students from Paideia school in Atlanta. The group is led by John Sundale. Florence's husband, Sam, a retired miner, is also present. Sam was an organizer for...
Warren Wilson College

Cherokee Customs
Indians of North America
Description of the author's attendance at a Cherokee ball game.
Lees-McRae College

Cherokee Indians
Indians of North America
Description of the author's visit to the Cherokee Indians of Qualla Town in Heywood County, North Carolina.
Lees-McRae College

church
Religion; Churches; Monuments & memorials; Universities & colleges
This photo shows the Rutherford College Abernathy Memorial First United Methodist Church as it looked in the nineteen-sixtees. The church was constructed in 1930, in honor of Robert Laban Abernathy, founder of Rutherford College. While the college...
Brevard College

Conference of mountain workers / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
Conference of Southern Mountain Workers (Knoxville, Tenn.) ; East Tennessee State Normal School.; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.); Universities and colleges -- United States -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Congresses and...
An article from the "Mountain Herald," about the March 29th and 30th, 1916 annual conference of the college and preparatory schools in the Southern Appalachians. The first address was delivered by Hon. Samuel W. Sherrill, State...
Lincoln Memorial University

Construction of McClarty-Goodson building
Universities & colleges; Education; Construction
This photograph shows a comic pose for the camera featuring Brevard College Chaplain, Reverend Edward Roy, and Dean, Reverend Grady Whicker. Dean Whicker points out the ongoing construction of the new classroom building, McClarty-Goodson. MG was...
Brevard College

Dark as a Dungeon
Mining; Guitars; Singing;
Florence Reece (1900-1986) talks in her Harlan County home to a group of high school students from Paideia school in Atlanta. The group is led by John Sundale. Florence's husband, Sam, a retired miner, is also present. Sam was an organizer for...
Warren Wilson College

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