Items

• Police officer converses with 2 other men
• Scholze Tannery Company
  Robert Scholze Tannery operated at 3001-3021 Broad Street from 1878 to 1978.
• Southern Saddlery Company and Robert Scholze Tannery
  Southern Saddlery became separate from Robert Scholze Tannery in 1907. It manufactured leather goods at 3001-3021 Broad Street from 1878-1978.
• Monument of Quatie, wife of John Ross, at Mount Holly Cemetery
  Elizabeth "Quatie" Ross accompanied her husband, John Ross, Principal Chief of the Cherokees, on the last detachment to Oklahoma. The Ross Party traveled by boat to reach Indian Territory. Quatie succumbed to pneumonia at Little Rock, Arkansas, and was buried there. This monument was erected at Mount Holly Cemetery by the Daughters of 1812.
• Chief John Ross portrait
• Emma Bell Miles with her daughters, Katherine and Jean
  Katherine was born in 19097 and Jean was born in 1902, and Emma Bell Miles died in 1919. Photograph would be between 1912 and 1919.
• Chapin, Elise Hutcheson (Mrs. E. Y., Sr.)
  Photo has photographer's name in right corner.
• Thomas H. Allen, 1881-1958
  Portrait depicting Thomas H. Allen who was an engineer by trade. Allen's consulting firm Allen Engineering Company (now Allen and Hoshall) played a key role in the planning of several prominent southern buildings, including the Peabody Hotel, the Shrine Building, Cotton Exchange Building, and the Elks Building. Also known as Major Thomas Allen, he served in World War I as a Captain with the 306th United States Engineers and later as a Major with the Second Battalion. After the war, Allen became a Commissioner for the city of Memphis, Tennessee and worked to develop that city.
• Lamar Alexander
  Lamar Alexander posing on a desk with a Tennessee flag behind him. Alexander served in public office as: Governor of Tennessee 1979-1987, U.S. Secretary of Education 1991-1993, U.S. Senator (R-TN) 2003- . Photograph also found in the Stone Collection acc. 315, S-2
• Henry C. Abercrombie
  Oval photographic print mounted to board with an enlargement. Gift of First Tennesse Bank and Chattanooga Area Historical Association from the Hamilton National Bank Collection, February, 1979.
• Lizzie Aiken
  On verso, handwritten: Aunt Lizzie Aiken. Read the story of Aunt Lizzie Aiken by Mrs. Galusha Anderson, Ellen M. Sprague, Chicago, 350 Mansfield Ave., Jansen McClung & Co., 1880, Gift of L.E. Sturges. Born Eliza N. Atherton, Aunt Lizzie Aiken originally came from the newly formed West, but her duties as a Civil War nurse took her to Memphis, Tennessee where she worked at Ovington Hospital caring for federal soldiers. Before that, she worked with the 6th Illinois Cavalry near Peoria as a nurse and missionary; in 1865, she went to Chicago to perform more missionary work.
• United States Cavalryman and Charger in Action, Fort Oglethorpe, Chattanooga, Tenn.
  Postcard depicting soldier of the 11th Cavalry on a rearing horse at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, circa 1916
• Before a fox hunt at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
  Image depicts the Master of Hounds with horse and hounds in foreground and 13 mixed civilians and officers on horseback in background. Written on verso: "Identified are: Hans Kloepfer, Master of Hounds; Robbie Richardson is young girl on horse behind & next to Hans."
• Polo team, Fort Oglethorpe
  The 6th Cavalry polo team circa 1921 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Picture includes five men mounted on horese, four of the men are wearing polo helmets and carrying polo mallets. Identified are, left to right: 1, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel D. Tompkins, 3. Captain William Van Dyke Ochs, 4. Captain Arthur H. Truxes. Other players are Captain Harry and Captain Robert R. Maxwell
• Sign to Colored Waiting Room at Terminal Station
  Terminal Station opened in 1909. African-Americans had to purchase tickets and await trains in separate areas. The ICC ordered all signs dealing with segregated bus/train terminals removed in 1962.
• Colored Entrance to Terminal Station
  The Terminal Station at 1400 Market St. opened in 1909 and closed in 1970. It later reopened as the Chattanooga Choo-Choo. African-Americans wishing to buy tickets had to enter through a separate door and wait in a segregated room. In 1962, the ICC ordered all segregation signs removed.
• Segregated Chattanooga Bus Passengers
  Photo is of a segregated bus in Chattanooga, probably Southern Coach Lines. Desegregation of bus lines was ordered by January 1957.
• South St. Elmo School
  Black & white postcard showing the South St. Elmo School. The cornerstone was laid May 3, 1910; in 1915 a second building was constructed of yellow brick with four Doric columns and in 1956 an auditorium and cafeteria were added. Closed in 1989; after redesign and renovation the building was reopened in 2003 as Alexian Court, housing for senior citizens.
• South St. Elmo School
  Black & white postcard showing the South St. Elmo School. The cornerstone was laid May 3, 1910; in 1915 a second building was constructed of yellow brick with four Doric columns and in 1956 an auditorium and cafeteria were added. Closed in 1989; after redesign and renovation the building was reopened in 2003 as Alexian Court, housing for senior citizens.
• Ridgedale Grammar School
  Ridgedale Grammar School, built 1921 and located at the intersection of Bennett Avenue and Woodward. This building replaced the original, at the same location.
• Ridgedale Grammar School second grade
  The second-grade class of Ridgedale Grammar School, 1914-1915. The school was located at the intersection of Bennett Avenue and Woodward. Names of the students given in Chattanooga News-Free Press July 13, 1980 p. C2.
• Red Bank Junior High School
  Red Bank Junior High, designed by R. H. Hunt Company and built by Mark K. Wilson Company. The building in this photograph replaced the original school, which burned in 1937; in turn, this building was replaced in 1960. In 1981 the junior high school switched buildings with Red Bank High School.
• Park Place School
  Park Place School, located at 1000 East 9th Street (now M L King Boulevard.) First listed in city directories in 1898; closed 1950; designed by architect Charles E. Bearden and constructed by Mark K. Wilson Co. Address sometimes given in city directories as southeast corner of Fairview Avenue.
• Orchard Knob Elementary
  Orchard Knob Elementary School, located at the northeast corner of East 4th Street, first appears in city directories in 1915. It was replaced by a new building in 2008. A woman and small child are visible at far left towards the bottom of the image.
• Orange Grove School
  Orange Grove School, originally located at 1002-4 East Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, first appears in city directories in 1904 as Orange Grove School. In 1925 Opportunity School was located at that address; in 1929 it reverted to Orange Grove School. In 1949 it ceased being an elementary school and the address was listed as 'vacant' until 1953. In that year it opened under the name Orange Grove Center for the Retarded; in 1969 the school moved to Glenwood. By the early 1970s the school was known as the Orange Grove Center.