Scope and Contents Holbrook Normal College (name changed to Tennessee Normal College in 1902) material, Fountain City, Tenn.: Holbrook Normal College catalog, 1897-98; 1898 commencement invitation; May 4, 1901, graduation recital program; June 1, 1901, graduation recital program; “Woman’s Power” by Belle McNew, written for commencement, June 17, 1898. TS 4 pp.; Tenn. Normal College junior recital program, May 28, 1902; Holbrook-Tennessee Normal College annual reunion program, August 22, 1941; The Normal...

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Holston Review (newspapers) No publisher or editor identified. Advertisements sold by the Tri-county News.

Scope and Contents Hugh Allen was a native of Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. He was a newspaper columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel for almost thirty-five years. Hugh attended Maryville College and graduated from Pace Business College in New York. His humorous newspaper columns and cartoons were favorite features of the newspaper from 1941 until he retired in 1964. Hugh Allen died on June 11, 1975 at the age of 76 and was buried in Newport Union Cemetery in Cocke County. Boxes 1-5: This collection...

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Series of original cartoons illustrating "actual patents granted to inventors" published in New York Tribune newspaper.

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Black-and-white photographs by Jane Gray Buchanan taken during travels throughout the world. Includes four articles about the artist and her husband, Joel Buchanan.

Locations include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Florida, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Massachusetts, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Tennessee, and Utah.

Scope and Contents Account books, ledgers, and day books from: H. T. Jarnagin (Jarnagin, Tenn., 1870s-1880s); Carmichael and Jarnagin (1890s); Harris and Jarnagin (Morristown, Tenn., 1880s); Carmichael and Craig (1890s); Harris and Jarnagin (Tampico, Tenn., 1871-1872). Collection also includes: Cash book of the Tennessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1922-1927; letter from F. C. Jarnagin written from Carson and Newman College, 1894; canceled checks of T. R. James, Morristown, Tenn;...

Scope and Contents Alice Jeanne Barkley, most often referred to as Jeanne Barkley, was born in White Pine, Tennessee on October 3, 1918, but moved to Knoxville at 18 where she would spend the rest of her life. Jeanne attended Knoxville Business College and the University of Tennessee. After her first job at Lawson McGhee Library, she worked for 40 years in the Alumni Affairs office of UTK. Jeanne kept in touch with many UTK alum as well as her siblings Marvin, H.D., and Elizabeth. Miss Barkley died in July 31,...

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September 15, 1854, letter from Jno. Miller McKee, Knoxville, to Col. W. B. A. Ramsey. ALS 4 pp. (1 pc.). Re: asks for help getting a job at a Nashville newspaper, cholera in town and deaths from it. Seller’s note says Jno. Miller McKee was publisher of the Knoxville Register.

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Collection contains research on Sevier County, Tenn., families and subjects. Includes: articles written by Joseph (Joe) A. Sharp, Sevier County Historian, including his notes, research and correspondence with other researchers; newspapers and clippings; photographs; eleven Sevier County Chancery Court cases (saved from destruction by Joe Sharp in August 1951). The collection is divided into four sections: genealogy; subjects; newspapers; Chancery Court cases.

Scope and Contents Copies of the Karns Community News issues published by Karns Community Club. Complete runs: 1982-1998Incomplete runs: 1979: February, March, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December (2 copies) 1980: January, February, April (2 copies), May (2 copies), June, July, August (2 copies), September, October (2 copies), November, December 1981: January, February, March (2 copies), April, May, June, July, September, October (2 copies), November (2...

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Knox County News (1957-1974), South Knoxville Packet (1986) Knox Countian (1961)

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One page from newspaper, photographs of Knox County officials including Cas Walker.

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Knox County Republican (July 24, 1942) Includes a 2 page insert of photographs with Republican ticket.

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Newspaper. Knox Focus

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Knoxville Automobile Club Scrapbook (1919). Also contains information about activities of the Good Roads Movement locally and regionally. 1 scrapbook (11 x 8 inches). The Knoxville Automobile Club, founded 1916, was the first generation of what became AAA East Tenn.

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Knoxville Business Weekly (newspapers)

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Knoxville Commuter News. Knoxville Free Press. (newspapers)

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Knoxville Daily Register, Knoxville Register, The Daily Register, The Weekly Register (1861-1864) (newspaper) Title varies

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Knoxville Enquirer (newspapers)

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Newspaper clippings, letters, and ephemera about the organization and activities of the Knoxville Film Council. Some clippings dated and identified.

The Film Council was a subcommittee under the umbrella of the Committee for Public Understanding organized in the Spring of 1947. The Film Council first met October 20, 1947.

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The Fourth and Gill Gazette was published 1974-1976, The Gazette, later Knoxville Gazette, was published 1977-1981. The masthead of the latter read “A Voice for the Poor and Working Class”

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Knoxville Gazette (newspapers) The first newspaper published in the state of Tennessee and the first newspaper published in Knoxville. The editor/published was George Roulstone (1767-1804) the first printer in the new state of Tennessee.

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Knoxville Happenings, Connections, The Highlands (Newspapers)

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Includes one box, gift of Judy Flinn (recd. 2005) with issues from 1939-1947.

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Flong of front page of Knoxville Journal City Edition vol. 96, no. 173 on July 21, 1969. Headline: Men Walk on Moon.

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Negatives taken by staff of newspaper of local news events from the Knoxville Journal, Jan. 1, 1958 - December 1991. 73 boxes. Includes b&w and color. The negatives are arranged by the approximate date they were shot.

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A selection of old photographs discarded from the Knoxville Journal and donated to the library in 1988

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Knoxville magazine articles and newspaper special sections 1930s

Scope and Contents Founded in response to the sudden closing of Metro Pulse, the Knoxville Mercury was an experiment in publishing an independent weekly paper on a nonprofit model, one so unusual it drew some national press upon its launch in March, 2015. Although owned by the educational nonprofit Knoxville History Project, it was allowed, within strict accounting guidelines, to accept both donations and advertising revenue. Its staff included three former Metro Pulse editors, including Coury Turczyn,...

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Photographs and clippings selected from the Knoxville News Sentinel files weeded from their morgue; these files covered only a part of the alphabet where space was needed; the files have been heavily weeded through the years before these later files were weeded and given to McClung Collection. Photographs were kept based on quality and continuing interest.