Dec. 30, 1896 magazine. Includes articles on area church histories, society news, school histories, and local news, as well as advertisements from area businesses.
Sports; Basketball; Universities & colleges; Tennessee Wesleyan College
16 members of women's basketball team poses in gymnasium; uniforms say "W". This is a picture postcard style card and the printed information on back reads: Tennessee Wesleyan College "Bulldogettes" 1945 Champions-...
World War II; Soldiers; Tennessee Wesleyan College
3" x 5" black and white photograph (now, sepia) of Sgt.
Robert L. Dew, a soldier in World War II, having his shoes shined by an "Arab" child [unknown]. On the back of the photo is written, " Robert sent a little Kodak...
"Girls live under a cooperative plan by which they earn part of their expenses by performing all the household duties in the building, including the cooking, the cleaning, the laundering, and the business of housekeeping." "The...
A formal picture taken of the Christian Church in front of Hardin Hall during the Tennessee State Convention. College President E.W. McDiarmid is indicated with an arrow.
A man in a beekeeper's hat and gloves stands behind a felled bee tree. The man holds a bee smoker in his right hand, and a small section of honeycomb in his left hand. Honeycomb is held above a metal bucket sitting on the tree trunk. Part of a...
A man in a beekeeper's netted hat and gloves holds up a small, square section of honeycomb to be placed in the boxed beehive at the bottom of the picture. Large metal pot and bee smoker sit on table to left of beehive.
A note included with the picture says, "CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS MAN? This photo is in the possession of the Pike County Historical Society. The members do not know the identity of the gentleman. If anyone can identify him please call 432-XXXX...
A photograph of a class in the Art Department around 1911. The picture shows (left to right) Edward Scent, Myrtle Cole Minton, Nancy Faulkner, and (standing) the Art teacher, Eva Swearingen Oldfield Wilson.
A picture postcard depicting the Pringle Tree in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Upshur County's first settlers, the Pringle Brothers, reportedly lived in the tree in the 1760s.
Alyce Horton was born the daughter of Daniel Boone Horton and Adelaide Collins Horton. Also in the picture are her sisters, Mossey, Isabelle and Nell. Alyce is the one grasping the chair.
An abandoned gristmill with a water wheel. The mill and wheel are overgrown with vines. Palmer's note reads, "Overshot grist mill south of Blue Ridge Parkway; Route 793 -- Head of Runnet Bag Creek. Waterlanes feeding this mill have rotted...
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.)
An article from the "Mountain Herald" about a sixteen-year old student who had trudged across the mountains in Kentucky, accompanied by her brother, for seventeen miles to reach the railroad station to travel to Lincoln Memorial...