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Research done by Warner Ogden (writer for the Knoxville News-Sentinel) on the downtown Knoxville re-development projects in the 1960s, i.e., the GAY/WAY and the Market Square Project. Some photographs.

Scope and Contents Papers of William H. Watterson (1836-1908), son of Henry and Lydia Hutchisson Watterson, Hawkins County, Tenn. William H. Watterson attended Emory and Henry College in Virginia and studied law under L. C. Haynes. He served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1865 and practiced law in Rogersville, Tenn. He married Minerva B. Riley in 1870. He was clerk and master of the chancery court of Hawkins County, the mayor of Rogersville, and a United States Commissioner. Papers include: personal and...

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Webb’s Store, Knoxville, Tenn.. Exterior, night shot. 8x10” B&W Thompson Company, Knoxville, Tenn.

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West End Street Railway, Circle Park, Knoxville, Tenn. 1897. Electric car (streetcar) with 5 men, l-r: unknown; Matt Johnson?; J.E. Phelps (died 1904), conductor; unknown; Charles F. Wayland, Motorman. Sepia print, mounted.

Scope and Contents Westwood Collection; Armstrong, Lutz, Holloway ,Matheny families. Family papers have passed through three houses: Crescent Bend, Bleak House and Westwood. Papers include correspondence of Robert. H, Armstrong, Drury P. Armstrong ,the Lutz family, the Holloway family the Matheny family, R. H. Armstrong receipts, East Tennessee Mental Hospital, cards and calling cards, ephemera, newspaper clippings, whole newspapers, pamphlets, framed photographs, unframed photographs, photographic negatives,...

Scope and Contents Photograph album (ca. 1860s) of cartes de visites from family of Hugh Andrew May White. Sophia Moody White, wife of George M. White (loose); Andrew Park, Jane Bowie, Langdon Bowie, Sophie Bowie, Margie Coffin Orto, Park Bowie, Alice McEwen, Hector and Ann Eliza Coffin (children); Lizzie Mitchell Moses (Frank Moses wife) (tintype); Hector Coffin (adult); Hugh Craighead; Belle Stephenson; Sophi Stephenson (child); aunt Cynthia White (grandfather’s sister) [daughter of James and Mary Lawson...

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Donated as part of the Bearden History Project. White Store on Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tenn., next to Mann’s Mortuary (where Regions Bank is in 2009). Ca. 1952. Picture was taken to celebrate the new Royal Crown Cola cooler. Woman is Imogene Myers, young man is store manager (name not known). The store also served as the West Knoxville Post Office. 8x10” copy photograph.

Scope and Contents Whittle Communications Collection. Property History Files. Wall Media (Campus Voice, Connections, Esquire, Family Health Advisor, Health Digest, Parenting Advisor, etc.). Wall Media (Physician’s Weekly, Road Trips, Women’s Health Advisor, mixed titles); Booklets; Photos, slides, properties. Property History Files; Press clips, Chris Whittle & others; Misc.; company newsletters; Chef Executive press series; assorted books; Special Report Magazine. Magazines & duplicates; notebooks;...

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Will Parham photographs of Blount County (6 folders), East Tennessee and North Carolina. Also includes some non-photograph material and negatives. Will E. Parham (1860-1946) was a woolen mill operator, a state legislator, and chairman of the Blount County Court for many years. He was considered “the Blount County historian” before such an office existed officially and spent many years researching the history and the family history of Blount County.

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Color photographs of houses in Sequoyah Hills taken by Bill Shelton. Houses have not been identified by address or owner.

Scope and Contents William Barton Reynolds (1820-1882) was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and lived in Benton, Polk County, Tenn. He died in Rome, Ga. Folders 1-3 include correspondence to and from William Barton Reynolds, 1855-1876. Major correspondents were son-in-law Peter Smith and John H. Reynolds. Topics include family business, education, the Civil War and conditions in East Tennessee, Lincoln’s death, and spiritualism. Folder 4 has a copy of W.B. Reynold’s obituary and reprints of six family...

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William Brownlow Patrick Glass Plate negatives (1901) A series of photographs made by William Brownlow Patrick, son of Anne Brownlow and William F. Patrick, grandson of William G. and Eliza Brownlow, of Knoxville with family photographs and identified Knoxville scenes.

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William C. George scrapbooks of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) clippings, maps, photographs and publications. Three 3-ring binders. Includes: “TVA Program in text and pictures from the Architectural Forum”; clippings (1950s-1960s); navigation charts / maps; photographs from various dam projects including Wilson Dam, Pickwick, Norris, Hiwassee, Chickamauga, Watauga.

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William Ellis House, Sevier County, Tenn (color photographs and negatives) The photographs taken shortly before the house was demolished in 1992. It stood above the French Broad River on the hill above Kyker’s Ferry, It was a brick Federal I -house with outbuildings. The small house built for Mary Ellis still stands. See Robbie D. Jones, The Historic Architecture of Sevier County, Tennessee. Page 205.

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Cartes de visite (CDVs) of William G. Brownlow. 23 pcs. Cartes de visite (CDVs) of Andrew Johnson. 14 pcs.

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Photographs of William G. Brownlow (copy neg. was made 7/2001), Brownlow’s granddaughter and grandson, and family wedding pictures from 1899 (Clarence Benscoter and Lucille Boynton). 3 folders. Photograph of seated Wm. G. Brownlow with right hand in coat was made from a Matthew Brady negative (Brady’s National Portrait Gallery).

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Wm. J. Oliver, President Appalachian Exposition. Oval portrait, B&W. 6x8”, matted and mounted. By Knaffl & Bro. Knoxville, Tenn.

Scope and Contents 15 folders in one box. Includes 4 original U.S. Patents: William S. Brown, K. W. Dennis, O. B. Keister. Letters Patent. Injectors. May 29, 1928. #1671851. In cover with seal.; William S. Brown, E. L. Keister, K. W. Dennis. Letters Patent. Power Reverse Mechanism for Locomotives. November 12, 1929. #1735727. In cover with seal.; William Sherman Brown, K. W. Dennis, O. B. Keister. Letters Patent. Valve Gears. July 8, 1930. # 1770296. In cover with seal.; William S. Brown. Letters Patent. Power...

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Wilson Lancaster, World War I, b/w photograph in military camp, 1917; Christmas Card (French) 1917 with flags of Allies; Pocket New Testament given to the troops. World War I embroidered cards like this Christmas card (also known as “World War I silks”) were made by women in France and Belgium to sell to Allied troops as souvenirs

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The Self-Interpreting Pictorial Family Bible (Cincinnati: Jones Bros., 1881) Christopher C. De’Armond and wife Emily Catherine McCallie.

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WNOX [Mid -Day Merry Go Round] radio broadcasts. ca. 1945? Two 8x10” B&W photographs. On stage at WNOX radio studio in Knoxville. Lowell Blanchard standing at microphone with 14 members of the cast of the daily radio program, Mid-Day Merry Go Round. One of seated is “Hot Shot Elmer,” one of the two Carlyle brothers. Second picture shows man and small group at microphones with others in background.

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Woman sitting on rock in river, rustic bridge in background.

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Woodlawn School group, Central Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn. B&W 8x10” copy photograph. Copy neg. available 4/88.

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Woods Consolidated School, 1912. Ext. sepia 8 x 10”. School takes the place of Vandergriff and Pleasant Gap Schools.

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Scrapbook of photographs of Works Progress Administration (W. P. A.) projects, ca. 1935-1943. Compiled by Nell S. Hendrix (June 1943, Knoxville, Tenn.). Snapshots include W. P. A. projects such as roads, bridges, buildings, football stadium in Bristol, Tenn. Detailed captions on back of pictures.

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World Trade Center, New York 9-11-2011 (color photographs)

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Apparently taken overseas and printed in Chattanooga after the war. Possibly taken in the vicinity of St. Hihiel, Meuse-Argonne campaign. Harry George Ritter was from Knoxville (b. 1900) and served in Battery C of the 114th Field Artillery Unit, 30th Division. Records being in the battle of St. Hihiel in his wartime bible.

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World War I (WWI) panoramic photograph of Co. H, 117 Infantry, 30th Div. AEF.

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World’s Fair slides and 35 mm b-w negatives. Taken by Larry Maloney. World’s Fair Memorabilia.

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World’s Fair Souvenir postcards and snapshots.