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Broadside advertising the Bristol (Va. and Tenn.) Woolen Mills. Protrietors Jordan & Pepper. Announcing the purchase of new machinery, new building on Beaver Creek open for business.

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Broadside: "East Tennessee Leaps Into Action as $40,000,000 Project Become Reality: Senator Norris Lauded as Father of Valley Plan" (mentions Cove Creek Dam)

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1. Broadway Market, City of Knoxville, Tenn. Scale 3/16” to 1’ Fron[t] elevation. 60 x 18.”Bond copy made from a deteriorating blueprint, which was destroyed after copying. 2. Broadway Market, City of Knoxville, Tenn. Scale 3/16” to 1’ Front elevation. 37 x 6.” 3. Bearden Place. Broadway Market. End elevation. Xerox on bond. 30 x 12.” (Plans for buildings that may not have been built)

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2 sets of architectural plans (Office Building and Settlement House), 5 sets of specifications, 4 Brookside Mills cotton labels, and photographs of Brookside Mills structures (2 interior, 3 exterior, 1 postcard). Plans by L. C. Waters, Knoxville architect.

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Family Bible of the Brown-Wheeler-Lahn families, 1818. + loose papers from Bible and newspaper (The Rockingham Messenger, Portsmouth, N.H., Jan. 7, 1851).

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Mix of family correspondence, work papers, receipts, cards, newspaper articles, ephemera spanning 1841-1954.

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Brownlow School PTA scrapbook, 1955-56; Knoxville Central Council PTA scrapbook, 1929-1930.

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Brownlow School PTA scrapbooks and minutes, 1930s-1960s. Box 1: PTA Minutes: 1936-40, 1941-43, 1949-53, 1953-56. PTA Membership List, 1964-65 ‘PTA Now & Then’ Box 2: Treasurer’s Reports: 1929-30, 1939-54 (+ 1 p. 1937) Three check registers Box 3: Scrapbooks: 1934-35, 1935-46, 1947-48, 1953-54.

Scope and Contents Photographs and negatives from Knoxville photographer Bruce Leslie and his family. Boxes 1-4 contain negatives in envelopes with BL numbers. Boxes 5-11 have some proof photos among negatives in separate envelopes. Envelopes labeled with Order Numbers, Date, and Subject, if available. Four boxes of 8"x10" negatives and some prints, two of the boxes have damaged negatives and prints. One box of unidentified, undated negatives. Sixteen total boxes of negatives. Two boxes of cards containing...

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Bruce McCarty, Knoxville Architect, Selected list of projects, 1954-1961.

Scope and Contents 101. Slave Transfer. Estate Will, Hawkins Co. Tenn. 1831 - 1834. Joseph Bryan, Last Will and testament. His heirs are listed as children John Bryan, Thomas Bryan, Joseph Bryan, Rachel Proffit, wife of John Proffit, Betsy Sterling, wife of Thomas Sterling and Patsy Grady, wife of Duglas Grady. Son, James Morgan Bryan is given the home place and the Negro Slaves, Cenda and William. Minor son James Morgan and mother Betsey Bryan to stay on home place with minor sisters, Insey, Lettice, Peggy...

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Three volumes of Buffat Family Account Books detailing Spring Place Mills business records of purchases, labor, fees, and sales plus household accounts of family purchases of consumer goods, travel expenses and servant labor.

1) P. F. Buffat 1861-1870 2) 1852-1860 3) Ledger B for the Spring Place Mills, Knox County Tenn. -- Buffat & Sons, 1868-1870

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Genealogy on the Burkhardt family (lines of Peter Burkhardt, James Monroe Burkhardt, and Nathan Leslie Burkhardt, D.D.S.), Knox County, Tenn. Research done by Ina Fields Wayland.

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Nine photographs plus printouts of news articles about Busch family. Identified photos include: --two photos of Busch family inside jewelry store, --two portraits of S. Harry Busch, --exterior of Royal Jewelers (504 S Gay Street), --A. K. Club Third Annual Ball (04/05/1937)

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Business and Professional Women’s Club, Knox County. (2 scrapbooks, 1979-80, 1980-81) World’s Fair Brick (in box with certificate authenticity) World’s Fair ephemera.

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Knoxville Glove Company letterhead.

Scope and Contents C.A. Ogden photograph album. Includes pictures of: Albertine Bolli Lyons; Arthur Lyons; Ethel Lyons; Alice Ogden Wooley; James Ogden (1809-1894) and wife Catherine Robinson Ogden (1813-1870); William Ogden, Elise Porta Bolli (2); Adele Bolli Ogden; Samuel R. Ogden; John Thomas “Tom” Ogden; James Henry Ogden; Alice Sterchi?; Albert Chavannes family; Catherine R. Ogden; Alfred T. Ogden; Alfred Ogden and wife Katherine Trecartin Ogden; Alfred & Elise ‘Lizzie’ Buffat; Emmanual and Mary...

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Box 1: Account books and ledgers; Sunday School Minute book; blank East Tennessee National Bank checkbook; First National Bank (Morristown, Tenn.) deposit books; notebooks, etc. Box 2: Cancelled checks 1901-1911 (bulk 1906-1907); Correspondence; Insurance papers; Deeds; School reports for Nellie Nenney; Business papers; Personal correspondence

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Sepia portrait of C. H. Hudson mounted on board. Photographer's mark "McCrary & Branson" "Knoxville, Tenn." at bottom. Written on reverse "C. H. Hudson, Knoxville, Tenn. about 1887 or 88"

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“From C. M. McClung & Co. Hardware & Supplies, Knoxville, Tenn.” Metal Stencil used for painting label on items sold by the company. Brass with small wooden handle/rim at the bottom.

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McClung Warehouse Grain Painted Box, 1874. C.M. McClung & Co. grain painted pine storage box, dated July-December 1874, with hook latch and old nail construction. C. M. McClung & Co. was a hardware and agricultural implements business in Knoxville, Tenn., late 19th century.

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The Caldwell Bible was published in Philadelphia by Kimber & Sharpless (nd) The Neptune Coffin Bible is missing the bottom portion of the title page--therefore there is no publication information. Inscriptions in both bibles suggest publication in the 1850s.

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Callahan Photograph Album. Includes 148 undated photographs made for the Callahan Construction Company, George W. Callahan, president and manager. Some photographs of the LaFollette & Jellico Railroad.

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Booklet entitled "It's Me Linen That Kapes Me Well" promoting Dr. Deimel mesh linen underwear and listing items, prices, and care instructions of garments sold by Callaway, Lowry & Cureton located on 517 Gay Street in Knoxville.

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Calloway - Leinart Bible. 1 volume; poor condition. One folder of loose items found in Bible, including tintype of unidentified young man.

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Handwritten page of notes for corrections provided by Calvin McClung to the editors of Baedekers, The United States with an Excursion into Mexico (3rd rev. ed.) Calvin McClung was hired to edit the Smokies portion of the text.

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Pages from the Cameron Family Bible with family information. The Cameron family lived in McKinney, Texas.

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Black-and-white panoramic photograph of Camp Gordon (Georgia) during World War I.

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Camp LeConte for Boys rifle trophy, Charles Nutter, 1951 champion. Black and clear plastic. Ca. 8” high, 4” wide base. Camp LeConte was near Elkmont, Tenn. Trophy was handmade in the craft shop under the main lodge.

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Hand-written letter on Camp Poland stationery dated 8 October 1898 from A Bird G to Dwight. Reverse has advertisement for The Prophet of the Great Smokies visit to Knoxville, Tenn. on October 19, 20, and 21, 1898 with the Free Street Fair and Trades Carnival.