Conversation between Anna Laymon, the Executive Director of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission, and Marsha Blackburn, the first woman senator from Tennessee, discussing the suffrage movement in Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify the 19th amendment.

Introductory statement by Marsha Blackburn, the first woman senator from Tennessee, as a way to kick-off centennial events in her home state to celebrate the anniversary of the 19th amendment.

Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Transcript of an oral interview with Al Heigel. When Heigel finished high school in June, 1944, he joined the Navy at Little Rock, Arkansas and went for boot training at San Diego. He was assigned as a radar operator and reported aboard the USS Independence (CVL-22) at Pearl Harbor. Heigel describes the light carrier and its construction and features. He also speaks of the time the Independence was hit by a torpedo off Tarawa in 1943. Heigel then describes events off Okinawa: watching the USS Franklin (CV-13) being bombed off Okinawa; locating and shooting down kamikazes; describing battle stations; aircraft water landings; being in a typhoon, etc. After the war ended, the Independence served as a troop transport taking GIs back home to the US. He describes bunks in the hangar deck and arriving in Portland, Oregon. As the Independence was being prepared for the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, Heigel got off becuase he had the requisite amount of points allowing him to be discharged. He then entered the lumber business, married and raised family.

Interview with Army veteran Ralph L. Cerny. The interview includes Cerny's personal experiences about being a combat infantryman in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, joining the Illinois National Guard, federalization of the Illinois National Guard, training at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, shipping to Camp Darwin, Australia, and combat around Mount Austen on Guadalcanal. Additionally, Cerny talks about the formation of the American Division and landings at New Caledonia, transferring of the division to Guadalcanal, the fate of Japanese prisoners-of-war, evacuation to the Fiji islands for rest and recuperation, landings on Bougainville, patrol and reconnaissance activities on Bougainville, his rotation back to the States, stateside duty as a drill instructor at Fort McClellan, and his postwar career.

Letter from Irv Rubin to Helen Snapp written on Irv Rubin letterhead. Rubin writes about his time in the military, and thanks Snapp for her service.

Interview with John R. "Jack" Price, an executive at the Caltex Petroleum Corporation, discussing his background, working for Caltex in China, India, and South Africa, relations between Caltex headquarters and branch offices, the construction of the Caltex refiner at Vishakhapatnam, and the formation of Caltex East and Caltex West.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Biweekly newspaper from Nashville, Tennessee that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.

Biweekly newspaper from Nashville, Tennessee that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.

Biweekly newspaper from Nashville, Tennessee that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.

Biweekly newspaper from Nashville, Tennessee that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Texas School Board Depository building in Dallas which the Warren Commission says President Kennedy was shot in 1963 which is heading for another legal battle.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church which begins their convention in Fort Worth.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Letter from T. J. Chung to Harris L. Kempner acknowledging the check he sent for the Union Trading Company.

Letter from Wallace E. Johnson to Truett Latimer; He encloses an application for Mr. Latimer to fill and return. He also informs him that his (Mr. Latimer) letter to Gerald Martin has been referred to the writer.

Letter from H. Kempner Cotton Company to Kazimierz Terepeta discussing contracts.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Hugo N. Dixon accepting his invitation to the dinner he's hosting.

A photograph print showing the Smoky Mountain RR 110, 4-6-2, on a freight train, Knoxville, TN. "right & left side views" [see also 2008.008.0653]

A photograph print showing the Smoky Mountain RR 110, 4-6-2, on a freight train, Knoxville, TN. [see also 2008.008.0652]

Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr., to Isaac Herbert Kempner Jr. mentioning that he has his letter of November 17th enclosing certificate for the account of Mrs. Kempner of the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company one for 100 shares and the other for 25 shares which has been placed in Box 40 for safe keeping.