Industrial Extraction and Scientific Farming in the Interwar Midwest: Ruhm’s Phosphate & Chemical Company (Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee). Photograph album documenting phosphate mining, processing, fertilizer application, and Illinois farm yield demonstrations. Circa 1928. Oblong black album (11 x 7½ inches) containing 77 silver gelatin photographs (majority captioned in typed slips, several.....

Two pamphlets issued by the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the NAACP between 1946 and 1949 documenting organized opposition to racial discrimination, anti-Black violence, and segregation during the early postwar years of the Jim Crow era. The material documents interconnected systems of labor organizing and civil rights advocacy through reports.....

[African American] Southern African American life photographic archive, ca. 1930s–1941, documents everyday life and community environments of Black residents across several states of the American South during the Jim Crow era. The photographs depict rural and urban scenes from Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana, presenting visual evidence of.....

Manuscript "Constitution," for a Confederate Veterans Association in Walnut Grove (possibly Tennessee ), no date, 5½ pages folio. The constitution states that "All Confederate veterans who was honorable discharged from service is eligible to membership in this Association." The objectives of the association are set forth: "...the Conservation of Confederate.....

The Chicago Sun Original Newspaper, dated Tuesday, August 7, 1945, the day after the United States' bombing of Hiroshima. 22 pages recto verso. Front page of newspaper features several atom bomb related stories including, "Story of Our Secret Weapon", Scientists Tell Of Watching First Blast. Steel Tower is Vaporized; Cloud.....

Civil Rights leader. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. Original large Life Magazine, 11 x 14", dated April, 1968. Complete and unsigned. Minor wear to spine otherwise in excellent condition.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People photographic archive, 1950s to 1980s, documents organizational leadership, legal advocacy, and political intervention during the mid twentieth century Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1909, the NAACP operated as a central institutional force in litigation, federal lobbying, and public advocacy aimed at dismantling.....

Claiborne County, Tennessee photo archive documenting Appalachian agricultural life during the late 1950s and early 1960s, with extensive coverage of tobacco farming, livestock raising, crop production, and rural community activity in East Tennessee. The photographs record a period when small family farms still dominated much of the regional economy, before.....