memphis

Memphis (Tennessee) before the war / sketched by Porte Crayon.

Composite of three scenes showing the old battery at the navy yard, steamboat landing, and the cotton levee, Memphis, Tennessee. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1862 March 15, p. 168. David Strother (1816-1888), 19... More

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Kansas City & Memphis Ry. bridge, Memphis, Tenn.

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A Mississippi River packet, Memphis, Tenn.

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National Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.

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The Levee from the bluff, Memphis, Tenn.

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Charity House, Outhouse, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Mem...

Survey number: HABS AL-871-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a flooded train track, Tennessee. Farm Secu...

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Fish restaurant for colored in the quarter cotton hoers are recruited....

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View taken from train en route to Forrest City, Arkansas from Memphis,...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Sign, West Memphis, Arkansas. Farm Security Administartion 1930s publi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton "snakes," waste cotton picked from floors of sampling and class...

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Classing cotton. Mid-South Cotton Growers Association, Memphis, Tennes...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Interior of Memphis cotton exchange, Tennessee

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A black and white photo of a city street Farm Security Administration ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Interior of cotton broker's office. Memphis, Tennessee

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A black and white photo of people looking at clothing, Tennessee. Farm...

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Cotton merchants with cotton lint on suits in Memphis cotton exchange,...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint. Memphis, Tennessee

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An old photo of a man on a float in a parade, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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A group of people sitting next to each other. Great Depression FSA pho...

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A group of women sitting on top of a wall, Cotton Carnival, Memphis, T...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A couple of young children sitting on a bench, Cotton Carnival, Memphi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee

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Girl drum major in night street parade during cotton carnival. Memphis...

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A group of people standing around a street sign, Great Depression. FSA...

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Rents are going up in Memphis, Tennessee

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A couple of kids standing next to each other. Children of Great Depres...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Cotton Carnival, Memphis, Tennessee

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Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee

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A little boy standing on a step next to a pile of hay, Great Depressio...

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A black and white photo of a float in a parade, Tennessee. Farm Securi...

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Cotton Carnival, Memphis, Tennessee

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A black and white photo of a woman in a dress, Cotton Carnival, Memphi...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...

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Halfway bus station between Memphis and St. Louis, New Madrid, Missour...

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Street scene no. 3, Memphis, Tenn.

J138902 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; March 5, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

Will Boykin House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, ...

Significance: The Boykin House is a good example of a double-pen (two-room) house, one of the basic house types of rural Alabama. Prior to 1940, two additions were made at the rear. Dismantled, moved and reco... More

Hilderbrand House, 4571 Airways Boulevard, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Survey number: HABS TN-249 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1900 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1915 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1950 Su... More

Drummer in orchestra in Memphis juke joint. Tennessee

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Charity House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pick...

Significance: The Charity House, a one-room rectangular house with a later single-room addition to the rear, is an example of a single-pen plan, the most basic folk house type in rural Alabama. Probably dating... More

Charity House, State Route 32 & County Route 1 vicinity, Memphis, Pick...

Significance: The Charity House, a one-room rectangular house with a later single-room addition to the rear, is an example of a single-pen plan, the most basic folk house type in rural Alabama. Probably dating... More

Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More

Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More

Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More

Memphis Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

See also HAER NE-2 for additional documentation. Significance: Designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark because it was the third longest railroad bridge in the world at 790' when completed. It... More

Davies Manor, 9336 Davies Plantation Road, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Significance: This building is an early example of log construction in western Tennessee and may be the earliest such structure in Shelby County. It retains much of its original character despite later additio... More

Masonic Order of Reformed Rite of Memphis to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesda...

45-47 Union Avenue (Cotton Brokerage House), Memphis, Shelby County, T...

Significance: An excellent example of the early cotton brokerage houses of Memphis' Cotton Row, this building retains much of its exterior and interior character including its stairhall and skylighted carding r... More

Littleton-Pettit House, 496 Beale Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Survey number: HABS TN-7 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction

Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas

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Goyer-Lee House, 690 East Adams Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Significance: Construction of this house, more commonly referred to as the Lee House, spanned three decades. Begun in 1848, it was enlarged in 1853 and 1873 by Charles Wesley Goyer. With the last extension, t... More

Goyer-Lee House, 690 East Adams Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Significance: Construction of this house, more commonly referred to as the Lee House, spanned three decades. Begun in 1848, it was enlarged in 1853 and 1873 by Charles Wesley Goyer. With the last extension, t... More

Goyer-Lee House, 690 East Adams Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Significance: Construction of this house, more commonly referred to as the Lee House, spanned three decades. Begun in 1848, it was enlarged in 1853 and 1873 by Charles Wesley Goyer. With the last extension, t... More

Goyer-Lee House, 690 East Adams Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Significance: Construction of this house, more commonly referred to as the Lee House, spanned three decades. Begun in 1848, it was enlarged in 1853 and 1873 by Charles Wesley Goyer. With the last extension, t... More

Goyer-Lee House, 690 East Adams Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Significance: Construction of this house, more commonly referred to as the Lee House, spanned three decades. Begun in 1848, it was enlarged in 1853 and 1873 by Charles Wesley Goyer. With the last extension, t... More

Turnage-Young House, 196 East Court Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

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First Baptist Church, 379 East Beale Street, Memphis, Shelby County, T...

Significance: This mid-nineteenth century church was the first brick church built in the South by African Americans for African American worship. One of its earliest and most notable guest speakers was General ... More

Second Presbyterian Church, Pontatoc Avenue & Hernando Street, Memphis...

Significance: Constructed as the Second Presbyterian Church in 1891, this Gothic Church is most famous under the name Claiborn Temple when it served as the center for the great civil rights movement of the 1960... More

Second Presbyterian Church, Pontatoc Avenue & Hernando Street, Memphis...

Significance: Constructed as the Second Presbyterian Church in 1891, this Gothic Church is most famous under the name Claiborn Temple when it served as the center for the great civil rights movement of the 1960... More

[Scoops Carey, Memphis Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Calvary Episcopal Church, 102 North Second Street, Memphis, Shelby Cou...

Significance: This church is the oldest public building in the city of Memphis and is the first Episcopal Church in Shelby County. Organized in 1832, the church building was started in 1838 and was consecrated... More

J. R. Watkins Building, 70 West Crump Boulevard, Memphis, Shelby Count...

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Robertson Topp House, 565 Beale Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS TN-19-2 Building/structure dates: 1841 Initial Construction

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis) - Pyramide de Chéops (Grand Pyramide) / ...

The Great Pyramid of Cheops at Jīzah, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie, [1858], pl. 9. S... More

The levee at Memphis, Tenn.-Hauling sugar and cotton from their hiding...

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Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, during the riot

2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly, 1866 May 26, p. 321. Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map showing the route and connections of the Memphis and New Orleans R...

Gulf states showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, and the railroad network, with emphasis on the main line. 14665 U.S. Copyright Office Scale 1:1,267,200. LC Railroad maps, 458 Description derived from ... More

Bear pits, Memphis, Tenn., The - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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Y.M.C.A. building, Memphis, Tenn.

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[Main Street, north from Gayoso Avenue, Memphis, Tenn.]

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Y.M.C.A. building, Memphis, Tenn

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071720. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The colossal fallen statue of Rameses II. Memphis, Egypt

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Tennessee Club, Memphis, Tennessee

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Court Square and skyscrapers, Memphis, Tenn.

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[Shelves in a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store in or near Memp...

Photo by Clifford H. Poland. Copyright by Clarence Saunders. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I; Shelf.; Geogr.; Stores; Self-service.

Egypt. Cairo and Memphis, etc. Mosque of Aly [i.e., Ali] Pasha showing...

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Egypt. Memphis. Basalt sphinx closer view with tourists

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Shack of Negro sharecropper. West Memphis, Arkansas

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An old photo of a boat in a flooded area, Tennessee. Farm Security Adm...

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Workers on the levee during the flood, Memphis, Tennessee

Title and other information from caption card. Walker Evans originally credited as photographer on file print; corrected Feb. 1998. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

Part of family on relief. Memphis, Texas

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A black and white photo of a flooded field, possibly related to: View ...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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A couple of men standing in front of a store, Tennessee. Farm Security...

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A couple of men standing next to a pile of sheep, Tennessee. Farm Secu...

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Cotton samples being taken to one of the broker's offices for sampling...

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A black and white photo of a city at night, Tennessee. Farm Security A...

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Cotton on trousers of cotton broker in classing and sampling room in o...

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Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

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Interior of Memphis cotton exchange just before closing. Tennessee

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Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee

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Secondhand clothing store and pawn shops on Beale Street, Memphis, Ten...

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