A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Oasis in Sinai desert near Suez
Title on photograph: Oasis near ancient Memphis - Egypt. Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 304. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Photograph taken from Sinai's... More
Color Craft Label Co., Memphis, Tennessee
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More
Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee
Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was assissinated during the Civil Rights Movement on April 4, 1968. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America... More
A glance at the past and present of the Negro
Terrell, a Washington, D.C., resident and an African American minister, hails the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation as the greatest events in US and African American history, reviews... More
Titus Block, Third & Market Streets, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS TN-19-4 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction
Allenberg Cotton Company, 104-106 South Front Street, Memphis, Shelby ...
Significance: A typical example of the brokerage houses of Memphis' Cotton Row during the cotton heyday, this building still functions as an exchange building. Survey number: HABS TN-188
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
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
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
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
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
Are they equal in the eyes of the law?
music by Miss L. E. Campbell ; words by Sergt. Allen R. Griggs. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)
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
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Annesdale, 1325 Lamar Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Significance: Annesdale is an impressive Italian Villa style mansion. Built about 1858-61 it is named for the wife of Colonel Robert Bogardus Snowden, who purchased it after the Civil War. The house has been ... More
Elizabeth polka - Public domain American sheet music
From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860
Dunscomb House, 584 South Front Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS TN-19-1 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction
Memphis National Cemetery, 3568 Townes Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County,...
Survey number: HALS TN-3 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 96001233
Memphis National Cemetery, 3568 Townes Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County,...
Survey number: HALS TN-3 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 96001233
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
The Porter guards march - Public domain American sheet music, 1883
From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)
Perspective map of the city of Memphis, Tenn. 1887.
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 902 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2
World Transportation Commission on the site of ancient Memphis
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
A Mississippi sunset, Memphis, Tenn.
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![[Union Station, Memphis, Tenn.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvdW5pb24tc3RhdGlvbi1tZW1waGlzLXRlbm4tMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "[Union Station, Memphis, Tenn.]")
[Union Station, Memphis, Tenn.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Confederate Park, Memphis, Tenn.
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
![[Overton Park, Memphis, Tenn.] - Victorian era public domain image](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvb3ZlcnRvbi1wYXJrLW1lbXBoaXMtdGVubi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "[Overton Park, Memphis, Tenn.] - Victorian era public domain image")
[Overton Park, Memphis, Tenn.] - Victorian era public domain image
Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
MEMPHIS, U.S.S., CASKETS OF DEAD, BROUGHT HOME BY U.S. HOSPITAL SHIP '...
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![[Interior of a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store in or near Memphis, Tenn., with two turnstiles in foreground]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTEvaW50ZXJpb3Itb2YtYS1waWdnbHktd2lnZ2x5LXNlbGYtc2VydmljZS1ncm9jZXJ5LXN0b3JlLWluLW9yLW5lYXItbWVtcGhpcy10ZW5uLTE4MTYwMi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "[Interior of a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store in or near Memphis, Tenn., with two turnstiles in foreground]")
[Interior of a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store in or near Mem...
Copyright by Clarence H. Saunders. Public domain photograph of early years of the Second Polish Republic, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Egypt. Memphis. Paleu grove of Memphis
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West Memphis, Arkansas. Great Depression public domain photograph.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...
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
The town square of Memphis, Texas
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Flood in North Memphis, Tennessee
Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a railroad track, Tennessee. Farm Security ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk, Tennessee. F...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A truck with a load of hay on the back of it, possibly related to: Cot...
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
Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sampling cotton in classing room of cotton factor's office. Memphis, T...
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Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint. Memphis, Tennessee
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Secondhand clothing stores and pawn shops on Beale Street, Memphis, Te...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A couple of men standing next to each other on a street, Tennessee. Fa...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of men standing next to a truck, Mississippi. Farmers during G...
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Classing cotton. Mid-South Cotton Growers Association, Memphis, Tennes...
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sampling and classing cotton in classing rooms of cotton factor's offi...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansa...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a parade. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negat...
Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cotton Carnival, Memphis, Tennessee
Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee
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Cotton Carnival, Memphis, Tennessee
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An old photo of a float in a parade, Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tenness...
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 group of people sitting on a ledge in front of a building, Tennessee...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Cotton carnival. Memphis, Tennessee
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A group of children sitting on a ledge in front of a building, Cotton ...
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
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 group of children sitting on a curb in front of a building, Cotton C...
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
Bridge over Mississippi River between Memphis, Tennessee, and West Mem...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A man sitting on a suitcase holding a baby. Office of War Information ...
Title and other information from caption sheet entry. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is a... More
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of passengers, mass transit, transportation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of passengers, mass transit, transportation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Egypt. Memphis. The Spinx of Memphis
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![[Interior view of a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store showing scales on top of counter and paper bags stored under counter]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDkvaW50ZXJpb3Itdmlldy1vZi1hLXBpZ2dseS13aWdnbHktc2VsZi1zZXJ2aWNlLWdyb2Nlcnktc3RvcmUtc2hvd2luZy1zY2FsZXMtZTI0ZWY0LTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/webp "[Interior view of a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store showing scales on top of counter and paper bags stored under counter]")
[Interior view of a Piggly Wiggly self-service grocery store showing s...
Copyright by Clarence Saunders. Public domain photograph of 1920s-1930s Poland, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Titus Block, Third & Market Streets, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS TN-19-4 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction
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
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
Marshall Institute waltz - Public domain American sheet music
From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860
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
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
Cotton Carnival, Memphis, Tennessee
Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Memphis Blues - Public domain American sheet music
"George A. Norton's Song founded on W. C. Handy's world wide Blue note melody."
Littleton-Pettit House, 496 Beale Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Survey number: HABS TN-7 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction
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
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
Annesdale, 1325 Lamar Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Significance: Annesdale is an impressive Italian Villa style mansion. Built about 1858-61 it is named for the wife of Colonel Robert Bogardus Snowden, who purchased it after the Civil War. The house has been ... More
Driver-Hunt-Phelan House, 533 Beale Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Significance: One of Memphis' outstanding ante-bellum residences, this house was begun about 1840. It was a pacesetter in elegance of style and was noted for innovations in heating and lighting systems. The h... More
Driver-Hunt-Phelan House, 533 Beale Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Significance: One of Memphis' outstanding ante-bellum residences, this house was begun about 1840. It was a pacesetter in elegance of style and was noted for innovations in heating and lighting systems. The h... More
Memphis National Cemetery, 3568 Townes Avenue, Memphis, Shelby County,...
Survey number: HALS TN-3 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 96001233