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Ernest Anderson and Bill Kilgore working at the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company mine in Marion County.

Minnie Pearl sits between Dean Martin and David Jansen.

In 1935, this still was confiscated by park rangers at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Sugarlands area. The boys are Civilian Conservation Corps workers posing as moonshiners for the staged photograph, taken by CCC employee E.E. Exline.

At 18 hands this was the largest mule in the parade at Columbia's Mule Day, 1939.

The Musgrave Pencil Company in 1938.

Discovered at the Bristol Sessions in the summer of 1927, the Carter Family was one of early country music s greatest acts.

Myles Horton at poll tax debates in the Tennessee Senate, January 1941.

Nancy Ward gravesite in Polk County.

A monument was erected by the Nancy Ward Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at her gravesite in Polk County.

Nashoba, from a German engraving, circa 1830.

College Street (now Third Avenue) decorated for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.

Mount Olivet Cemetery.

A Nashville Banner newspaper salesman known as Ray in September 1937.

Launching a minesweeper during World War II.

United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting of the Nashville chapter in 1938.

Predators team captain Tom Fitzgerald scores a winning goal during a game against the San Jose Sharks.

Nashville Union Station, 1970.

The Natchez Trace in Williamson County.

General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Justice Nathan Green.