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Collection: Burr Harrison Photographs, circa 1881-1958

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Professional baseball at Soldier's Home, throwing out the first pitch

Downtown before 1890, Main Street looking east from Spring Street area; couple with ox-drawn covered wagon

Johnson City Fire Department, first engine, Johnson City Buick Company in background, 320 East Main Street

First Methodist Episcopal Church, corner Main and Roan Streets

Ward & Friberg (Beehive Department Store), 207-209 East Main Street

Troop #3 on swimming trip; Burr Harrison, scout master

Flood, Johnson City, May 1908, Market Street looking southeast

Tennessee Lumber and Veneer, near present site ofHarris-Tarkett, Gordon Furniture, and Volunteer Natural Gas Company, near West Walnut and Tennessee Streets, looking south toward Reservoir Hill

Fountain Square looking west, Railroad Avenue, Silver Moon Restaurant, Market Square Pressing Club

First Presbyterian Church, corner of Main and Boone Streets, built 1954, interior and exterior photos,

First Presbyterian Church, corner of Main and Boone Streets

First Presbyterian Church, corner of Main and Boone Streets

First Presbyterian Church, Boone and Main Streets, built in 1872,

Old city power plant, probably Tennesse Eastern Electric Company at Roan Street and Southern Railway

St. John's Episcopal Church, Roan Street and Myrtle Avenue

Army tank at Science Hill Academy,

Eight men (including S. E. Miller) in front of Summer Hardware

Lower floor of old Municipal Building, facing Boone Street, marketing stalls located here- later remodeled into offices

Old "Comet" newsroom, upstairs Jones Vance Drugs, corner of Main and Spring Streets

Old "Comet" newsroom, upstairs Jones Vance Drugs, corner of Main and Spring Streets

City Commission meeting- William B. Ellison, P. F. McDonald, Robert Wanen, Mr. Pierce, W. 0. Dyer

Jake Miller Home, near Tennessee Street, between Southern and Clinchfield railroad tracks; Miller was Bun Harrison's maternal grandfather

J.M. McMillon Company Groceries (McMillon and Acuff)

Municipal building second floor auditorium, corner of Boone and West Market Streets

Ritter Lumber, giant yellow poplar tree from southwest Virginia,

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