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Knoxville High School, Chorus (1931) b/w photograph

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[Knoxville High School] Dramatic Club. No date. Sepia 8 x 10” (lower left corner broken off).

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Graduating Class K.H.S. 1922 (Knoxville High School). Printed composite with IDs. Compliments of The Journal and Tribune.

Scope and Contents The Knoxville Housing Authority (KHA) Collection consists of photographs, reports, correspondence, legal files, court filings, newspaper clippings, memoranda, and notes compiled by Arthur Byrne during his tenure as attorney for the KHA. The legal files are matters relating to various cases in which Byrne defended the KHA. Project files are made up of photographs, news clippings, and, in the case of Riverfront-Willow, the KHA’s official published redevelopment plan complete with maps. Some...

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SPC 2016.005 Knoxville Iron Company. Identified from a photograph in Heart of the Valley (p. 370). 4.5 x 7.25: mounted on board.

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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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Knoxville Market House in the Snow, ca. 1930. Art print by “W. Edwin T.”

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Black-and-white panoramic photograph (42.5" x 9.5") of Camp Peay, east of Tullahoma, Tenn. On front "Field Inspection - Camp Peay - 1935. Jamison 1431 Porter Rd." No photographers mark. Photograph includes donor's brother, Clifford W. Wright of Knoxville (d. August 1, 2000. Battalion Sgt. to master Sgt., Omaha Beach, through Normandy, to Battle of the Bulge).

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Knoxville News Building with young paperboys with newspaper bags. 103-105 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn.. 1922. IDs written on front, including Tommy Ford.

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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.

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‘Knoxville of 1915’. Twenty framed photographs from the Thompson Collection used in the ‘Knoxville of 1915’ exhibit done by the McClung Collection and the ETHS for the ‘Remembering James Agee’ celebration, April-June 19, 2005. Exhibit was in the gallery space off the ETHC lobby, 1st floor. Captions also located with the photographs. Several of the photographs were hand-tinted by Brenda Hampton, McClung darkroom.

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Photographs: Forrest [Forest] Avenue Christian Church (1912, 1917); Deaderick Avenue Baptist Church (1920s)

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Knoxville photographs President Lyndon B. Johnson (May 8, 1964) , Richard Nixon with Howard Baker, 1951 UT Cotton Bowl, 1982 World’s Fair under construction, unidentified church 

Scope and Contents Glass plate negatives and contact prints made in McClung Collection darkroom (Feb. 2015). Subjects include: Gray Cemetery; Kern’s Building; Central High School (?) group; Peter Brakebill reunion; [Miss Margaret Davie ?]; Penny Arcade, Chilhowee Park, 1906; Mrs. F.B. Cooley; Felix Creamery (2 clowns, 3 dogs); Dr. F.J. Hackney baby; Southern Railway Station; [Logan Temple?], Thanksgiving 1912 and 1921,W.J. McCoy, Charles P. Cruze family, J.L. Baumann group, C.M. McClung Co. basketball team...

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10 photographs of Knoxville Police Chiefs / Chief Law Enforcement Officers. Includes: Edward M. Haynes, Joe Kimsey (2) , Huskisson, Chief Harry Huskisson, French Harris, others have no ID. (some are trimmed to odd sizes). Also, Sept. 13, 1977 program of the Kiwanis Club of Northside Knoxville, Memorial Dedication honoring Chief Law Enforcement Officers of City of Knoxville, 1802-1977 (2 copies); typed list of Chief Law Enforcement Officers (3 pp.); handwritten notes.

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SPC 2012.010.001 Knoxville Power & Light Company. Streetcar #5 Lonsdale. ‘Don’t Gamble. Buy Now Knoxville Power & Light Company’s Preferred Stock. Pays dividends every three months. People on streetcar and in doorways. 8x10” sepia. Taken by Robin Thompson. 1 pc. SPC 2012.010.002 Knoxville Power & Light Co. employees on stage with electronic appliances. Nelle Mann, 2nd from left (aunt of donor). 11x7” B&W Taken by Robin Thompson. 1 pc.. Other IDs on back of photo.

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McDonald’s Restaurant on Kingston Pike. September 1972. 3.5x5” color snapshot. (Given to donor by Tom Cochran) Kay’s Ice Cream Food Shoppe on Asheville Highway. Fall 1997. 4x6” color snapshot.

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Knoxville Streetcar City: Photographs from 1984 Exhibit (East Tennessee Historical Society) Includes photograph of the dance pavilion at Fountain City

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Knoxville Swiss-American Exhibit Photographs (East Tennessee Historical Society)

Scope and Contents Records of the Knoxville Typographical Union No. 111, including: 5 minute books, 1902-1962; 2 Chapel Meeting minute books, 1953-1974; one ”Time for 2 weeks ending” Knoxville News-Sentinel account book, 1930-1934; 1 photograph of George Evans, Jim Trent and Douglas C. Kloss; two books (were required reading); Typographical Journal, Dec. 1986 (final issue); CWA News, Dec. 1986 (replacement publication); eight folders of Union papers of R. J. Pickell through 1977. Charter (not framed) of KTU...

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Knoxville Veterans Day Parade November 11, 2004

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Folder 1: Minutes of the Board of Directors of the Young People’s Christian Union, 1913-1916. 1 vol.; Folder 2: Corresponding Secretary’s Book for the Knoxville Young Peoples Christian Union, 1912-1913, 1919 ; Folder 3: Christian Union Community Club booklet, [ca. 1919]; Folder 4: Photographs used in Christian Union Community Club booklet, [1919]; Folder 5: Young People’s Christian Union reports and correspondence, ca. 1921. Especially Wallace D. Hitch.

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Copies of enlarged, printed photographs - 2 interior views; 1 Gay Street view

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Kuhlman’s Drugstore #1, Knoxville, Tenn. Ca. 1910 or 1912. Interior showing young men behind soda fountain. B&W copy snapshot.

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Lamar House, May 1876. “Presentation of banner to McKinney Guards.” (formerly identified as President Rutherford B. Hayes’ visit to Knoxville). On back of card: Harry C. Mix, Macon, Ga.. Copy Photographs of stereograph (to size), plus three 8x10” enlargements of the image details. Thomas E. Wise, owner of original, did copy work and sent these prints, along with some photocopies, in 1995.

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L&N Railway Station, Knoxville, Tenn. Ca. 1975. (view from Clinch Avenue Viaduct). B&W 8x10” 2 views of same image.

Scope and Contents Cabinet card with sepia-toned portrait of [?] Laura Gentry Branson [?] Photograph is 3 3/4” x 7 1/2”; Card is 4” x 8 1/4”. Printed on front of card “McCrary & Branson, Knoxville, Tenn.” Written on back of card “With love from Lora [Lara?] Dec. 23-’93” Printed on back of card in gold leaf McCrary & Branson photographers mark, includes image of building with cart and horse in front. “McCrary and Branson - Photograph & Portrait Artists - No. 130 Gay St. Knoxville, Tenn. Duplicates...

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January 26, 1938 note from Miss Laura Thornburgh, Knoxville, Tenn. Re: payment of 1938 dues ($3.00) to Smoky Mountains Hiking Club. ANS 1 pc. + April 11, 1937 snapshot of four hikers, including Mr. Ellis, Laura Thornburgh, and Mrs. Trainer. (+ note from donor).

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Lawson McGhee Library, 500 W. Church Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. exterior ca. 1984; East Tennessee Historical Center (formerly old Post Office and Custom House) 314 W. Clinch Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. exterior ca. 1984. B&W 5 x 7”.

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Lebanon Presbyterian Church and Gilbert Ryder (who took most of the photographs). Color Polaroid prints and snapshots.