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Certificate of Award for Sylvia Sue Barnette, valedictorian Nelson-Merry Class of 1955 with free one year subscription to Reader's Digest. Folded front cover of Nelson-Merry Commencement Exercises pamphlet labeled 5/23/54. Black and white photographs…

Julia Taliaferro is pictured with her Nelson-Merry history collection on the front page of the Standard Banner newspaper as an icon of Black History Month.

Standard Banner interviews Julia Taliaferro, leader of the fight to wear pants to school, before the Nelson-Merry History Celebration at Boyd's Chapel United Methodist Church the following Sunday. Taliaferro shares facts about the school and memories…

1950 and 1960 rosters for the football team and both the girls and boys basketball teams. Black and white pictures of teams, fans and coaches with some labels. One set of handwritten rosters for the girls and boys basketball teams with no date.…

Standard Banner coverage of the 2011 Black History Month celebration at Boyd's Chapel United Methodist Church. Joan Simon Hendricks and Claudia Haskins are pictured with a Nelson-Merry school memory board created by Julia Taliaferro. The celebration…

Unidentified porter photographed in front of freight cargo at the train station in Jefferson City, Tenn.

Directory of Martha Davis Baptist Church Service

Catherine Moulden of Jefferson City, Tennessee shares her recipe for Pound Cake and recounts the impact cooking has has on her from childhood and onwards into her adult life.

Genealogy research being conducted in the Jefferson City, Tennessee by the Jefferson County Geological Society.

Obituary in the newspaper for Earl Barnett---- a well respected math teacher and member of the Knoxville Community, departed this life on Wednesday, January 25, at Fort Sanders Hospital in KNoxville, Tenn., after a lengthy illness. He was 63 years…