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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom...
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Scope and content: A variety of material by and about women and women's issues. Materials focus upon women and girls, and within that focus, cover a wide range of subject matter. Generally, items included are not easily catagorized in any other way. Quantity of materials is usually one to three items. May contain some photocopies.
Materials include: an illustrated booklet, circa 1920, about a girls' camp, Camp Bon Air, located on the Cumberland...
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Scope and content: 98 black and white snapshot photographs, most, if not all, taken by Gene Paladin and collected by Marion F. "Sonny" Smith. Scenes include soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) in 1966 and 1967 in Vietnam, especially in the area near Bien Hoa. Many scenes are at the location of a special jungle training school, located near Bien Hoa. Images include candid portraits and scenes of soldiers...
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Scope and content: Postcards, most written by Volney Linck to members of the Binns, Gant, and Linck families of Nashville, Tenn. Although the collection as a whole spans from 1909 to 1958, the bulk of the collection and Volney's correspondence runs from 1909 to 1920. Volney traveled widely and the postcards depict and come from a variety of places, including: California and Los Angeles; Ontario, Canada; New York City; Taboga Island, Panama; Florida;...
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Scope and content: Home movies, in color and black and white, shot by Albert and Mary Jane Werthan, spanning the time frame from 1935 to 1962, showing their children, friends, extended family at play and leisure in Nashville, Tenn. and environs. All scenes are shot outdoors. Includes scenes at the family farm in Williamson County, Tenn. known as Tollgate Farm, mostly of family, recreation, and scenic shots, but including scenes of haying operations...
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Scope and content: Series I. Autobiography of Norvelle Dismukes, written in 1982, provides a detailed account of her life, her family, her education, and her career. Generally written in chronological order, she has a novelist's eye for detail, and provides rich emotional and physical descriptions about the people in her life and her surroundings. She writes about her family origins in Wilcox County, Alabama; her adoption by relatives in Nashville,...
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