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Nashville Whig. National Banner and Nashville Whig. (newspapers)

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National Intelligencer. Daily National Intelligencer (newspapers)

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National Journal. Daily National Journal (newspapers)

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Newport Herald (Cocke County, Tenn.) (Newspapers)

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Documents his career in sports as a baseball player and later manager of the American Legion Club

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Newspaper clippings on Tennessee Ernie Ford, Carl Story, and the Country Playhouse from WROL radio on two loose pages from a scrapbook.

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Newspaper fragment, article on Hiwassee Railroad (1836?)

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Newspapers. Our Country (Chicago) + mixed titles.

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Box 1: The Tri-Weekly Whig, June 20, 1861 (John Bell Brownlow Papers, gift of Will & Candy Brownlow, 2007). The Journal & Tribune, May 17, 1909 (Boyd-Barton Collection, gift of Betty Tarpy, 2007).

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Powell News. March 25, 2004- (New in 2004) (newspapers)

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Northwest Community News: Serving the Powell, Karns, Claxton, Norwood & Cumberland Estates areas (newspapers) 1/24/2002-4/30/2003.

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Newspapers containing stories about the dropping of the atomic bomb and its development at Oak Ridge, August 7-12 and September 2, 1945. Papers include: Knoxville Journal; Knoxville News-Sentinel; Washington Times-Herald; Washington Post; and the Oak Ridge Journal. Also: loose clippings and reprint of Time and Life stories on the Manhattan Project, 1945.

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1) Flyer advertising the From Papers to Pixels fundraising campaign to digitize the Knoxville News Sentinel from 1922--1990. Includes portrait head shot of Sam Venable.

2) Program for September 8, 2015 Launch Event for the From Papers to Pixels fundraising campaign. Catered lunch with speakers Ginna Mashburn (Chair of the Knox County Public Library Foundation), Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, and Sam Venable.

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People’s Press: The Voice of East Tennessee (newspapers)

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Photostats of letters of William Blount to Daniel Kennedy, 1791-1793; + miscellaneous photostats, including some newspapers.

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Powell Post (Powell, Tenn.). December 1987-July 1998, Powell Times (2001)

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Preservation News (National Trust for Historic Preservation) 1978-1990

Scope and Contents Reprints of 12 Civil War Newspapers, a Civil War Centennial project by Royal Crown Cola, Knoxville, Tenn. Available to the public for 4 bottle caps of RC, Nehi, or Upper 10 plus $0.25Charleston [S. C] Daily Courier June 2, 1864 The Charleston [S. C.] Mercury June 17, 1863 Daily Dispatch [Richmond, Va.] October 20, 1863 Daily Richmond [Va.] Examiner May 10, 1863 June 3, 1862 Harper’s Weekly September 24, 1864 The New York Herald February 11, 1861 April 14,...

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Scrapbook of glued-in newspapers clippings of the column by Dr. Frederick Augustus Ross, D. D. (1796-1883). Some identified as from the Christian Observer (Richmond, Va.). Title of column was “Rev. Dr. Ross’ Column.” Mostly religious and political. Undated. Includes printed copy of December 16, 1868, letter from Dr. Ross, Huntsville, Ala., to Col. John A. McKinney, Rogersville, Tenn.

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Letter from James G. or Richard G. Dunlap (signature missing), Nashville, Tenn., to Col. Moses White, Knoxville. AL 8 pp. (2 pcs.) Re: result of inquiries about George Roulston and George Wilson, newspapers.

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Richmond (Va.) Inquirer (Enquirer). (newspapers)

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Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser (Va.) (indexed). 21 May 1839 - 19 June 1840. Louisville Journal 17 Apr 1839 - 1 Apr 1840 (indexed, bound volume). Rockport Weekly Republican (Rockport, Spencer County, Indiana). 5 June 1856 Boston Courier 5 Sept 1839 - 12 Dec 1839, 17 Jan 1840 - 11 June 1840 The Semi-Weekly Creole (New Orleans, La.) 7 June 1856

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February 14, 1842, letter from Ro(bert) S. Caruthers, House of Rep., to Messrs. Sales & Seaton, Washington. ALS 1 p. Encloses $5 for subscription for Col. David Looney (Columbia, Tenn.) to Semi-Weekly Intelligencer.

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Collection includes: James White and John Williams deed, 1816; The Examiner newspaper, African-American newspaper, Knoxville, June 29, 1878; W. S. McEwen correspondence, Kingston, Tenn., 1850-1869; postcards; stamps; World War II; Civil War related topics.

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Rogersville Review (newspapers)

Scope and Contents The Sawyers-McBee Papers span from 1791 to 1866, including a few undated items, and pertain to the Sawyers, McBee, and Peterson families of East Tennessee. William Sawyers of Corryton, Tennessee was the Union Lieutenant Colonel of the Tennessee 3rd Infantry Regiment, Company K. Ganum McBee was a Confederate private who was married to Nancy Sawyers. Ganum received a head injury at the battle in Newtown in November 1864, and was treated at the Wayside Hospital in Bristol, Tennessee between...

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Scrapbook of Confederate Civil War clippings.

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Scrapbook of History and Travel Clippings, 1889-1927; two small paintings, photographs, sketches in loose material in the back of the scrapbook

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Scrapbook of Newspaper Columns of Betsy Morris (1923-1994), Knoxville News Sentinel Women’s Staff and Society Editor, 1944-1985. Newspaper articles undated, mostly 1940s-1950s.

Scope and Contents Opened on April 22, 1930, St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital was built on Knoxville’s Oak Hill Avenue as the third Catholic hospital established in Tennessee. Through the leadership of the Sisters of Mercy, many landmark additions were made to the hospital over the years including the East Tennessee Cancer Clinic in 1937 and the first cerebral palsy clinic in East Tennessee in 1948. Many notable doctors and staff worked for St. Mary’s over the years including Drs. Herbert Acuff, Jacob Bradsher,...