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Title |
Blackburn House |
Description |
Cabinet card photograph of the Blackburn house that stood at 10th and Adams streets. On the porch: William M. Temple and Ruth Hines Temple, seated are Aunt Beck (Mrs. John Stephen Kelley) and Grandma Mary Ellen Ennis Temple, standing left Aunt Mary Miller (Mrs. A. L.) Temple and Aunt Bessie (Mrs. Charles Peyton Davidson.) The African American maid was Fanny Jackson. The house was built by Samuel D. Blackburn and was the headquarters for the Confederate Army of the West under General Albert Sidney Johnston who occupied it on October 15, 1861. See MSS 55. There is also a closeup photograph of Ruth Hines Temple on the steps holding a doll and dog. |
Catalog Number |
1970.2.2 |
Other Number |
B7191, 7192 and 732 |
Object Name |
Photograph, Cabinet |
Date of Image |
1901 |
Search Terms |
African Americans Blackburn family Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederacy Confederate Confederate States of America Davidson family Houses Jackson family Miller family Temple family |
Caption |
Blackburn House |