127 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next

[Melvina Chessher]

Description: Copy negative of a portrait of an older Melvina Chessher, operator of the first hotel in Jacksonville, seated in a wooden chair. The photograph was taken in the early 1930s.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Oil Derrick]

Description: Copy negative of a group of people standing in front of the base of a wooden oil derrick, with a car parked on the far right. Lorene Jones stands in the middle of the group, and a tall man with a hat, Dr. P. E. Jones, the owner of the farm, stands next to her.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[World War I Soldiers]

Description: Copy negative of two World War I soldiers, sitting next to one another. The man on the right has his arm around his companion.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Chessher Hotel]

Description: Copy negative of Mrs. Melvina Chessher standing in front of the Chessher Hotel, the first in Jacksonville. She used the hotel to support herself after her husband was killed in the Civil War.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Ferry]

Description: Copy negative of four people and a child standing next to a river. An early automobile is parked on a ferry. From left to right, the people are an unknown ferry operator, Elizabeth Brown, J. L. Brown, Mrs. J. L. Brown (nee Jewel Newton), and Allen Spraggins.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Girls' Dormitory at Alexander Collegiate Institute]

Description: Copy negative of the Girls' Dormitory, later Smith Hall, at the Alexander Collegiate Institute and the dirt road in front of it. The institute later became Alexander College and is now Lon Morris College. Turrets stand on either side of the building.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Dorm Room, Cumberland University]

Description: Copy negative of a college dormitory room, labeled "Cell No. 10, Cumberland University, Cumberland, Tenn." A dresser is placed in the corner of the room. Many knick-knacks are strewn throughout. To the left, pillows have been placed in a window seat.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[First Presbyterian Church Orchestra]

Description: Copy negative of the First Presbyterian Church orchestra outside the entrance of the church. A piano and the pianist, Jewel Newton Brown, occupy the center of the photograph, and three members of the orchestra are seated on either side of it. On the left, a woman holding a violin is seated between a man holding a violin and a man holding a clarinet. A woman sits to the immediate right of the piano. Next to her is a man holding a horn, and the man next to him holds an upright bass. A baritone ho… more
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Jacksonville Orchestra]

Description: Copy negative of an early Jacksonville Orchestra, in the home of W. A. Newton. Pictures hang on the walls; one of them is of Zelvin Newton. This photograph is behind the seated guitarist. A piano is behind the orchestra, on the right of the room. Several orchestra members hold guitars or banjos. On the left, Mr. W. A. Newton stands while Mrs. W. A. Newton is seated in front of him. In no order, the rest of the orchestra consists of Walter Newton, George "Pete" Newton, Mozell Newton, Janie May N… more
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Golden Anniversary Song]

Description: Copy negative of the lyrics to Jacksonville's Golden Anniversary song, entitled "Jacksonville's Big Jubilee," written by Reverend J. D. Aldredge.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Logging Team]

Description: Copy negative of a logging team at Jerry Liles' Sawmill in Ponta. A man wearing a cowboy hat sits on a wagon, behind a team of four horses, who pull a wagon full of logs. The team stands at rest in front of a log cabin.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Jacksonville Citizen]

Description: Copy negative of a group of early Jacksonville citizens. They are all older men, including, in no order, Dr. Rather, Col. Murchison, W. T. Morros, Columbus Emanuel, Dr. John B. Fuller, Jake Love --- Ferguson, Cal S. Bolton, W. A. Brown, Rev. J. M. Mills, Dr. J. M. Brittain, C. L. Nunnally, M. M. Wadsworth, --- Block, Capt. H. L. Morris, N. M. Fain, A. D. Davis --- Montgomery, and J. M. "Jim" Brown.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Students Outside School]

Description: Copy negative of a class of students standing outside the Dialville Elementary School building. Bottom row, left to right: Mazzie Acker, Bertha Jarratt, Hones Smith, Jack Moore, Coy Halbert, Ray Acker, Tom Acker, two unknown students, Melvin Acker, Denton Roach, Luther Garner, Walter Blackwell, Charles Jarratt, Wordy Watson, Fred Rodgers, Willie Dorris, J. C. Moore, Douglas Payne, Buster Odom, Ray Odom, Buster Harris, and Lewis Rodgers. Second row: Ora Garner, Jimmie Fulton, Odess Garner, Bessi… more
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Celebrities at Golden Anniversary]

Description: Copy negative of Jacksonville celebrities standing in front of an official automobile, decked out in American flags, which would lead the Golden Anniversary parade. John C. Box, district Congressman; Charles C. Bando; M. L. "Bud" Earle, former mayor; Tol Smith; and T. E. Acker, then mayor, stand next to the car. Many of these men helped to plan the event.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission
Back to Top of Screen