Gilded Age Through WWI Period (1877-1917)

 

Photos Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.

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Country Store in Cedar Grove

 

Description:  Country store in Cedar Grove, which was south of Hurricane Mills.  There were people on the porch and a car in front of the store.

Place:  Humphreys County, Tennessee

Date:  1915

Collection:  Looking Back at Tennessee

File Location:  HU082

Accession #:  1988-017

Image #:  8909

Format:  Contact print

Photographer:  TSLA Staff

 

 

 

 

First House on Hickman County Side of Duck River

 

Description:  View of the first house on the Hickman County side of the Duck River.

Place:  Shady Grove, Hickman County, Tennessee

Date:  1915

Collection:  Looking Back at Tennessee

File Location:  WM245

Accession #:  1988-017

Image #:  29927

Format:  Contact print

Photographer:  TSLA Staff

 

 

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Rafting Railroad Ties

 

Description:  Three men who are rafting railroad ties on Lowe Bend on the Duck River.

Place:  Hickman County, Tennessee

Date:  Early 1900s

Collection:  Looking Back at Tennessee

File Location:  HI055A

Accession #:  1988-017

Image #:  8565

Format:  Contact print

Photographer:  TSLA Staff

 

 

 

 

Rebuilding Railroad Bridge

 

Description:  Rebuilding the burned span of a railroad bridge across the Duck River at Centerville.  Locomotive with equipment mounted on it visible at upper left.

Place:  Centerville, Tennessee

Date:  1907

General Notes:  Mounted on file card with descriptive text typed on reverse.

Collection:  Library Collection

File Location:  Drawer 21, Folder 30

Image #:  4100

Format:  Photographic print

Negative #:  6790

 

 

 

Richard Porter at Age 120

 

 

Description:  Richard Porter at age 120.

Place:  Columbia, Tennessee

Date:  October 1904

General Notes:  On reverse:  "Presented to Rev. W.A. Provine by Frank H. Smith, Columbia, Tenn."

Collection:  THS Picture Collection

File Location:  Box 11A, Folder 15

Accession #:  THS 193

Image #:  13993

Format:  Photographic print

Photographer:  W.S. Young

 

 

 

 

Paper Mill on Big Falls

 

Description:  Paper mill on Big Falls.

Historical Note:  Active around 1885.

Place:  Manchester, Tennessee

Date:  1910

Collection:  Looking Back at Tennessee

File Location:  CF131

Accession #:  1988-017

Image #:  6251

Format:  Contact print

Photographer:  TSLA Staff

 

 

 

Brantley Family Grist Mill
 

Description:  Brantley family grist mill on the Noah Fork.  Shows men and women next to the mill.

Historical Note:  The Websters built the first mill here.

Place:  Coffee County, Tennessee

Date:  1903

Collection:  Looking Back at Tennessee

File Location:  CF109

Accession #:  1988-017

Image #:  6229

Format:  Contact print

Photographer:  TSLA Staff

 

 

 

 Mill Creek Baptist Baptism
 

Description:  Baptist baptism in Mill Creek, onlookers sitting on the banks, July 15, 1906.

General Notes:  Original in the collection of Amelia Edwards (not a TSLA collection).

Date:  7-15-1906

Collection:  Library Collection

File Location:  Drawer 14, Folder 185

Image #:  2835

Format:  Copy print

 

 

 

 

 

 

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