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Welcome to the Tennessee State Museum’s Online Collections portal. This represents only a small sampling of the Museum’s collection. More artifacts will be added on an ongoing basis. If you have any questions or don't find what you are looking for, please email us at collections@tnmuseum.org.

Disclaimer: The Tennessee State Museum, serving the State through access to our collection, makes images and information on our artifacts available to the public. These images are available for personal, educational and noncommercial use only. Some materials and works of art are protected by copyright and may be subject to additional third party rights. As a courtesy, when using an image, please credit The Tennessee State Museum and cite the author or artist where available.

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National Photography Month

May is National Photography Month, an opportunity to highlight some of the thousands of photographs in the Tennessee State Museum’s collection. From daguerreotypes to digital images, photographs can preserve the past and inspire new ways of seeing the world. In a photography-saturated age, considering ways photographs add meaning and value to the Museum's collection can help us to appreciate these artifacts with fresh perspective. Through these selections, explore how photographers craft images that have powerful stories to tell us today.

Explore some of many ways of looking at photographs in our accompanying “Curator’s Corner” content here:

https://tnmuseum.org/Stories/posts/curators-corner-national-photography-month-highlights-from-the-collection

Item Selection	Available Actions	Object IDsort by Object ID ascending	Image	Synopsis
		0.87.2		photographic print \| Moore, John B. \| Vietnam War \| Veteran \| United States Army \| Tennessee State Flag \| Putnam County
		9.643.1		ambrotype \| photograph case \| Civil War \| Confederate States of America \| Music \| violin \| fiddle \| Wound
		76.197B		William McKamey \| ambrotype \| Dean & Emerson, Worchester, Mass. \| Civil War \| McKamey, William \| McKamey Collection \| African American \| Black History \| United States Colored Troops (USCT) \| Knox County \| Knoxville, TN
		80.92.17.1		Alice Gee Tyndall's Album \| photograph album \| Tyndall, Alice Gee \| Columbia, TN \| Maury County \| Photography
		80.237.1		"Mrs. Ramsey" \| photographic print \| Dahl-Wolfe, Louise \| Gatlinburg, TN \| Sevier County \| Great Smoky Mountains National Park
		80.237.2		"William Edmondson, Primitive Sculptor, Nashville, 1937" \| photographic print \| Dahl-Wolfe, Louise \| Edmondson, William \| Nashville, TN \| Davidson County \| Tennessee African American Artists
		84.121.12		"Bart Suttles & Leona Maye at Wildwood Grocery" \| photographic print \| Hood, Robin \| Wildwood Grocery \| guitar \| Jamestown, TN \| Fentress County \| Music \| Store, Country \| The Tennesseans
		85.29.3		ambrotype \| photograph case \| Children \| Photography
		86.36.6		"Washday at the Stooksberry Homestead near Andersonville, Tennessee." \| photographic print \| Hine, Lewis \| Andersonville, TN \| Anderson County \| Tennessee Valley Authority \| Norris Dam
		89.12.3		"Interior View of Sharps Station M.E. Church Near Loyston, Tennessee." \| photographic print \| Hine, Lewis \| Loyston, TN \| Sharps Station M.E. Church \| Union County \| Tennessee Valley Authority \| Norris Dam \| Religion
		89.12.5		"Mrs. Sarah J. Wilson, Bulls Gap, Tennessee." \| photographic print \| Hine, Lewis \| Tennessee Valley Authority \| Hawkins County \| Bulls Gap, TN \| Cotton \| Wilson, Sarah J.
		94.100.22		"Loretta Lynn, Nashville, TN, 1992" \| photographic print \| von Matthiessen, Maria \| Photography \| Music, Country \| Lynn, Loretta \| Hurricane Mills, TN \| Humphreys County
		95.19.146		cabinet photograph \| McCrary & Branson \| Knoxville, TN \| Branson, Lloyd \| McCrary, F. B. \| Knox County
		95.103		"The Capitol Nashville. (Tenn.)" \| albumen print \| Barnard, George \| Civil War \| Nashville, TN \| Davidson County \| Tennessee State Capitol \| United States Army
		1996.28		"FDR Funeral 1945" \| photographic print \| Clark, Edward \| Nashville, TN \| Davidson County \| Jackson, Graham \| United States Navy \| World War II \| Accordion \| Black History \| Life Magazine \| Roosevelt, Franklin Delano \| Funeral
		1996.62		Children Marching with U.S. Flag \| photographic print \| Jarmon, Nancy \| Tennessee: A Bicentennial Portrait \| Tennessee Arts Commission Collection \| Children
		1997.2.224		cabinet photograph \| Lively's Art Gallery \| McMinnville, TN \| Warren County \| Lively, W. S. \| Southern School of Photography (McMinnville, TN)
		1999.51.5		Portrait of a Nashville Woman \| Card Cabinet \| photographic print \| Poole, R. \| Nashville, TN \| Black History \| Reconstruction \| Davidson County
		1999.130		Catherine Hunt and Julia Tate Hunt \| Tintype \| A. P. Critchlow & Company \| Hunt, William \| Hunt, Julia Tate \| Hunt, Catherine \| Hunt-Phelan House \| Memphis, TN \| Shelby County \| Slavery \| Black History \| Children
		1999.131.2		"Mt. Le Conte, Great Smoky Mountains" \| photographic print \| Adams, Ansel Easton \| Smoky Mountains \| Great Smoky Mountains National Park \| Tennessee Waltz Collection