Scope and Contents Photograph album (worn red velvet with decorative element on cover with the word ‘Portraits', fastener broken, some torn pages). 19 photographs. Inscription on flyleaf “For Margie From Papa and Mama Christmas 1893". A second inscription: ”For May From Auntie June 28, 1923”. Some pages have handwritten labels but no photographs. The identified photographs: ‘Hoods in Knoxville. May 17, 1902. Brakebill & McCoy; Uncle Will Hood’s little grandson (MD); “Mrs. Parsley his wife who is dead”;...

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Hopewell United Methodist Church, Millertown Pike, Knox County, Tenn. Copy photograph of painting of the original building which was torn down circa 1910. Painting was done December 1916 by Dorothy Groves and hangs in the current church building. 5x7” B&W + 4x5” copy negative (3/85).

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Color photograph taken by Howard Baker, Jr. No date, unsigned. Image is approximately 19.5"x13” on 21.5"x16” paper. There were a few small bends in the photograph at the time of receipt. 1 pc.

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Howard Johnson’s Motel at Kingston Pike and Weisgarber Rd. 1955

Scope and Contents Papers of the Charles H. Hudson family including Lucinda Dickinson Hudson. Includes photographs and photograph albums. Major Charles Henry Hudson (1833-1922) was a native of Massachusetts. His father, Charles Hudson, was a member of the Massachusetts legislature, later a member of Congress, a naval officer, and an internal revenue assessor. Charles H. Hudson graduated from Harvard in 1854 and began life as a civil engineer. He was involved in building a number of railroads and bridges in the...

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[Hugh A.M.] White home, West Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn (later the site of UT Domestic Science Building). Exterior, side view. 4 x 7 3/4” faded sepia, mounted.  

Scope and Contents Folder 1: October 20, 1948 letter from Hugh (Tyler), South Kent, CT, to Helen. ALS 4 pp. Re: Knoxville, Rufus (James Agee); August 16, 1950(?) letter from Laura (Tyler Agee) to Paula (Tyler). ALS 3 pp. Re: terms of sale, mentions Rufus (James Agee); August 11, 1950 envelope addressed to Paula Tyler. Folder 2: 1975 newspaper clipping with picture of Hugh Tyler + photocopy; photocopy of letter from donor. Folder 3: photograph album with 1911 April 1st picture; WWI (?) parade in Knoxville;...

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SPC 2013.005 Hugh Lawson McClung. Killed during the Civil War (15 February 1862). Taken by Knaffl & Bro., Knoxville, Tenn. Image are 4x5.75” mounted on card.

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“Images Of Change,” Downtown Knoxville, Documentary photographs, 1979-1980. (David Verrico). (photographs) Photographs were taken by the photographer under the direction of Bill MacArthur, head of the McClung Collection, to document streetscape changes, building demolition, etc. during the preparation for the Expo, later the 1982 World’s Fair.

Scope and Contents SPC 2017.006.001 Farragut High School football team, no date. Ca. 1900? Sepia. Image approx. 8.5 x 6.25” (damaged out mat trimmed July 2017). 1 pc. SPC 2017.006.002 Farragut watering place. At left: Erected by the Farragut School and Community 1910. 8 x 10” sepia. J.. Nesseler, Photographer, Knoxville. 1 pc.. SPC 2017.006.003 Farragut High School baseball game afternoon of Commuaureal(?) Day 1914. J.. Nesseler, Photographer, Knoxville. 7.5 x 9” 1 pc. SPC 2017.006.004 Gymnasium interior...

Scope and Contents Papers of Inez Giffin. Papers include: condolence letter from George R. Dempster, Feb. 9, 1932; American Red Cross Assistant Program Director/ Social Director General Hospital, Knoxville papers, 1945-1947; correspondence and cards, 1957-1964; Third Baptist Church and William Bright Ford papers, 1889-1929; The Four Fuller Brothers (musical group) autographed photograph; Eugene Williams (paralyzed child) and television set papers, 1954; Miscellaneous, including information on the flag and coat...

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Interior view of Superintendent Miller’s office, Board of Education. ca. 8 x 10” B&W

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Aerial photographs of Interstate 40 interchanges when newly finished. Six photos-- Westhills--Bearden, Papermill Road, Campbell Station Road , Cedar Bluff Road, Lovell Road, Mabry Hood Road.

Scope and Contents Copy photographs made from nitrate negatives. Prints made from original negatives before freezing. Original book holding the negatives also contained a descriptive key, which did not match contents by arrangement. Pictures taken by Irvin (“Mike”) S. Saxton (see Baker-Himel School catalog, 1905-1906). Subjects include: Baker-Himel School, Knoxville, Bristol, Elizabethton Courthouse, residential int. & ext., high school sports, and Knoxville Lumber Company saw mill, Saxton & Company...

Scope and Contents Isaac Barry Family Photograph Album. (1860s). Leather--bound album with paper sleeves for photographs. (a few identified, Civil War tax stamps, photographer of Knoxville photographs: Thomas Smiley, Gay St.) (4.5 x 3 inches) Inscribed inside front cover: ” Isaac E. Barry Jr. Dec. 26 ‘68” [1868]. 15 photographs and tintypes. 3 floral prints. Woman at back of album believed to be Mary E. Barry (SPC 2014.002.002) and man with beard nearest her photograph at back is Isaac E. Barry, Sr (SPC...

Scope and Contents Loose papers removed from the Isbell Family Bible placed in the McClung Collection by Mrs. Barlow, April 11, 1983. Papers include: copy of the will of Thomas Isbell, 1819; notes of family history; photograph of Sarah Elizabeth Isbell Gaut; program from Ministers’ and Deacons’ meeting held at Coghill Academy, McMinn County, Tenn., 1869; Mary Sharp College card, n.d.; pattern pieces; James H. and Robert B. McMillan obituaries; 1869 letter from Benjamin Isbell to brother James; January 10,...

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J.C. Schneider Meat Market, exterior with three men. Photographic postcard. No date. Information sheet in envelope.

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11 8x10” B&W copy photographs from J.P. Roddy, Jr.: South Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn. 1917. 1 pc.; frozen Tennessee River from different views, one with Kyle Jenkins, 1917. 5 pcs.; Third Tennessee Infantry (became the 117th Infantry of the 30th Division), March & September 1917. 5 pcs.

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Jack Dempster family (Christmas b/w photograph) (ca. 1955)

Scope and Contents Photographs and artifacts of various aspects of the Knoxville Fire Department from 1861-1984. 528 photographs in 478 mountings housed in 56 obliques files. Photographs are arranged under the subject headings: buildings; equipment; events; fires; group portraits; individual portraits; training scenes, and miscellaneous. Artifacts arranged in eight boxes (see finding aid for details). The following oversized artifacts are stored separately: 1 wooden ladder; 2 framed pieces of newspaper...

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Family Bible of Jacob L. Thomas, 1869. Five loose items found in the Bible were placed in one 5x7” envelope and are in the box with the Bible. Also, one 1876 photograph of the C. J. McClung residence is in a folder in the box with the Bible. The photograph was broken in two pieces when received.

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James A. G. Watson, family photographs. Watson was a soldier in the Spanish-American War, Troop F, 15th U.S. Cavalry, a veteran of the war in the Philippines 1902-1903. Includes photographs of Watson in later life and members of his family. Also one news clipping about a reunion.

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James Alexander Lindsey McColloch Family Bible. First Families of Tennessee application of Lacy Porter McColloch, a direct descendant of Thomas McCulloch (photocopy); James Alexander Lindsey McColloch and wife Mary Louana Dyer McColloch (1910 copy of 1860 photograph); ribbon printed “ Boonsboro [Ark.] Y.P.S.C.E. 1890.”

Scope and Contents Four albums of Thompson photographs, with b&w prints mounted on linen. Three albums of Great Smoky Mountains photographs and one of Knoxville scenes and businesses. These were rescued from the Thompsons building after a fire in the 1950s by Alva Harmon, a Knoxville Fire Dept. chief. The albums were slightly scorched and damaged by the fire and were given to Mr. Harmon by the Thompsons.Albums removed from binding and foldered in boxes by album. Box 1: Photographs of the...

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Album of photographs taken by James E. Thompson, ca. 1904-1905, of the construction of streetcar tracks in Knoxville and Knox County, Tenn. 1 album (90 leaves, 720 photographs). Backs of photographs are identified with job number, date, job location.

Scope and Contents James H. Clayton Papers. Include: Original correspondence (1805-1886), some from James H. Clayton, Civil War soldier of the 6th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, USA; photocopies of genealogy research; financial papers of the Clayton family; and other papers. The collection includes photographs of Walter and Bertha Miller and their children: Ruth, Alma, and Clayton. Also includes photographs of the Fenniken, Clayton, Linginfelter, Ogle, Willoughby, and other families. (Collection is 1 box of...

Scope and Contents James H. Polhemus Collection-Mascot, Tenn. Includes material on the American Zinc Company of Tennessee and the community of Mascot in Knox County, Tenn. The collection includes: photographs; slides; 1919 American Zinc Company of Tennessee Labor Report for 1919; Mascot fish trap data, 1921-1923; Miner Notes, August 1963; Catherine Arthur Memorial Library scrapbook; [Library] guest book, 1952-1965; Mascot Community Club minutes, April 1927-April 1929; artifacts (American Zinc Co. Farms dairy...

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James Malia Collection of records of service in Laos with International Voluntary Services 1967-1971 as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

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Black-and-white photograph of James Park House (interior) the home of the Knoxville Academy of Medicine. Located at 422 West Cumberland Avenue. Photo of meeting room with fireplace at front and rows of chairs. Written on front “Christmas 1953 The Platto”

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Photograph album of James Robinson Ogden, who came to Knoxville with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War, Leather 5x6” album containing mostly Civil War era CDVs (cartes-de-visite). 22 photographs. Subjects include: John Keyes, view of Knoxville(?), [General Ambrose] Burnside, General George Stoneman, James R. Mitchell, H.C. Squire(?), W. Chamberlain, Henry Chester, E.C. Ruggles.