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Article by Hobart Akin titled "African American CCC Legacy in Tennessee" published in the January/February 2022 issue of The Tennessee Conservationist pp.26-29.

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Albion (New York), Virginia Plough-Boy and Williamsburg Weekly Advocate.(only one issue 12-3-1827)

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1) Letter from Alex Haley to Patti Lindsay (Arts and Crafts Instructor of the Girls Club of Knoxville) re: his payment of $125 plus additional $25 for a carton of 50 cornshuck dolls sent to him previously. ALS. January 27, 1986. + envelope

2) copy of article on Alex Haley from December 19, 1985 Savannah (Ga.) Morning News

Scope and Contents The first meeting of the Southern Association of College Women in Knoxville was held in the summer of 1903. In the spring of 1921 the organization affiliated with the American Association of College Women (AAUW) and the first meeting held as the Knoxville Branch of the American Association of College Women was held on May 3, 1921. Records of the organization include folders on the chapter's history and its centennial celebration in 2003; minutes, 1903-1982; membership/dues cards; Study Group...

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Newspaper clippings about American Legion, many dated and identified.

Scope and Contents Collection includes: transcription of a diary of Mary A. Dickinson, kept during a summer trip from Louisiana to Canada, 1859. TS 49 pp.; [Anna Gay McClung] diary. Dec. 10, 1884-June 30, 1886. TS 61 pp.; Anna Gay McClung reminiscences, ca. 1950s. Topics include Ridgefield Plantation, Belair, Live Oaks, Two Old Wedding Dresses, and St. Louis Plantation. Carbon TS + St. Louis Plantation (TS blue copy 5 pp.) + photocopied family chart. Four papers: “Notes on the Desobry Family dictated to Anna...

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Appalachian Exposition article, [Charleston] News and Courier. Sept. 14, 1910. “The Appalachian Exposition a Blaze of Glory; South’s Big Show Event of the Year Now Open.” 1 clipping.

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Ball Camp News (newspapers) Published by the Ball Camp Community Club

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Bearden Press Enterprise. (Formerly West Side Story), 1991-1992

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Scrapbooks of Bert Vincent’s newspaper column “Strolling,” clipped without dates. Bert Vincent (1896-1974) was a regular newspaper columnist with the Knoxville News Sentinel from 1929 until his death.

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One page article from Woman's Home Companion volume XL, No. 8, August 1913. The Better Babies Movement was for "fathers and mothers who place their children before everything else" and the Woman's Home Companion's Better Babies Bureau developed the score card for the Better Babies Contest to promote the movement. Article includes photos: Lyceum Building, Annie Schuber, Sidney June Chastain, Eugene Galyon, Charles T. Cates, Jr., Mary Lura Noel, Nelson Perry Merchant, F.C. Metler.

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Blue & Gray (East High School), v. 1 (1961-62), v. 15 (1965-66); Blue & White (Knoxville High School) v. 4-5 (1925-27), v. 29 (1950-51).

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Knoxville High School, Blue and White. 1927-1951. Boxes 1-5, bound Blue and White in chronological order. Boxes 6-8 duplicate volumes and loose issues.

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Boston Recorder, National Journal (Washington, DC), Western Carolinian. (newspapers)

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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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Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator (1864-1865) and Knoxville Whig and Chronicle (1875-1876).

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Scrapbooks of mostly newspaper clippings of articles written by Carl Knoedler, who was a reporter for a Chattanooga newspaper and later drama critic for the Knoxville Journal. One scrapbook covers ca. 1925-1926, the second scrapbook covers ca, 1927-1928.

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1. Bound issues of Chattanooga Daily Times from Jan 1, 1878 through June 15, 1878. Incomplete; missing and damaged pages/issues. 2. Bound issues of Chattanooga Daily Times from July 1, 1882 through Dec 31, 1882. Damaged pages/issues.

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Chattanooga, Tenn. The Daily American Union, 1867-1868 [bound newspaper]

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Cherokee Phoenix, August 31, 1833. Vol. V, No 29. (newspaper)

Scope and Contents 1) Church of the Brethren, 1890, "Minutes, The Brethren’s Annual District Meeting, held at Pleasant View Church, Washington County, Tenn. Oct 31 & Nov. 1, 1890. Lists all delegates and their homes. Queries include, no candy wagons to solicit outside their meeting, foot washing self-government, wearing of gold and other dress code issues, codes for women of the church, regular business. Mentions Rev. Henry Sheets from Flat Rock, names churches and their contributions to debt of Choto...

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Clippings of news articles about the Knoxville City Association of Women’s Clubs pasted into a scrapbook. Most articles have dates and newspaper identification. Some other pamphlets pasted in the book as well.

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Columbian Observer (1823-1825), Nashville Gazette (1822-1826), Nashville Whig(1822-1825), Nashville Republican (1825-1826), Jackson Democrat (1826), Constitutional Advocate (1822-1825), New York Observer (1826). Newspapers

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Community News (Powell), Country Register, Mundo Hispano, Ulster-Scot (newspapers)

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Daily Chronicle (Nov. 8, 1872-May 8, 1873), Daily Press & Herald (Jan. 4-June 8, 1871; July-Dec. 1871; July-Dec. 1874). Bound volumes.

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Large format facsimile of the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, printed by a 1848 newspaper.

Scope and Contents Materials include: Map – Showing the Property of Tennessee Mining & Mfg. Co. – Knox, Anderson, Morgan, Scott, Campbell Counties. Deeds – for properties in Cocke, Washington, Blount Counties, Town of Newport. Legal papers – for businesses, property, etc. in : North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee (General Oil Gas Corporation) – interests held in businesses by the family. News clippings – Old Blount Buildings”, “1921 Construction Crew” –Maryville, Tenn., 1965. Photograph: Pigeon River, taken...

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Newspaper clippings glued into scrapbook (some loose); include dates and source information for the majority of the clippings.

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Invitation and program - Dickson-Wright Mansion 200th Anniversary, 08/29/2021, Greeneville Tenn. "Putting the icing on the cake" A Re-inactment Wedding Ceremony of Miss Catharine Dickson to Dr. Alexander Williams. The event was a fund raiser to put shutters on the mansion. Includes newspaper article recapping event.

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Discovery: Knoxville’s Christian Voice (newspapers)