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Adolph Ochs, owner of the New York Times

 Collection
Identifier: SPC 2017.002
Scope and Contents

Adolph Ochs, owner of the New York Times. Shown with silver printer’s stick to mark his 13th anniversary as publisher. 1 pc. with typed caption attached. 6 x 7.75” sepia

Dates: ca. 1909

African American photograph album

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Identifier: PC 0102
Scope and Contents Small photograph album with the name W.G. McNeil (April 11, 1928) on the inside cover. Includes b&w (sepia) snapshots of unidentified African-Americans, ca. 1918-1928. Lake Michigan is noted on one photograph. Candid and posed snapshots , some with first names (Marie, Willie, etc.). Loose pictures from inside the album are housed in two envelopes, one with 11 small photographs, the other with 6 larger snapshots. Two handwritten notes mention the Grahl and Wilcox surnames with family...
Dates: 1918 - 1928

African American Woman and Shannondale School Group

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Identifier: SPC 1995.025
Scope and Contents

Full length portrait of (African-American ?) woman, with sticker at bottom: “A Merry Xmas To The Family From Sue.” Found in old gift book in 1991, no additional ID.; Shannondale School group, grade 2, 1967-1968. 5x7” color in holder. Belonged to Linda, age 7.

Dates: 1960s

Agee portraits

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Identifier: SPC 2017.005
Scope and Contents

Three 8 x 10” copy photographs and 3 copy negs. (made March 1989). SPC 2017.005.001 James (Rufus) Agee and Margaret King (Mrs. George J. McAfee), ca. 1912. SPC 2017.005.002 James (Rufus) Agee, center; Josephine Stone (Mrs. Fred Breeding) with dog; Margaret King (Mrs. George J. McAfee). SPC 2017.005.003 James (Rufus) Agree, front center; Margaret King (Mrs. George J. McAfee) in back row with dark hat.

Dates: ca. 1912

Albert A. Fagala

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Identifier: SPC 2015.011
Scope and Contents

SPC 2015.011.001 Albert A. Fagala. Ca. 1870s. Tintype in matte. 1 pc.

Dates: ca. 1870s

Alberta Ahler Photographs

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Identifier: SPC 1995.018
Scope and Contents

Unidentified young child in chair, outdoors; unidentified house (probably Knoxville), exterior (note on back: part missing, Main Street, first home in town, Grandma Webb died in 1910).

Dates: undated

Alberta Ahler Photographs

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Identifier: SPC 1995.007 a&b
Scope and Contents

SPC 1995.007a: W.T. Webb Grocery Store, 946 South Seventh Street (later Fifteenth Street), Knoxville, Tenn. L-r: Harley Webb or Melvin Webb, W.T. Webb, ?, Lafayette (‘Fate’) Webb.5x7” sepia, mounted.; SPC 1995.007b: Home Guard (men in military uniform with rifles, drums). Front row, 5th man kneeling from left is Joseph Albert Ahler. 7x 9 1/4”. sepia, mounted.

Dates: undated

Alma Childress Cox Balsam

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Identifier: SPC 2004.007
Scope and Contents 1. Alma Childress Cox Balsam in formal gown with Hawaiian guitar. People’s Studio. Jan. 23, 1953. 3.5 x 5” B&W. (postcard backing; tape damage on back). 2. Alma Childress Cox Balsam and husband Casper Balsam. 3x4” B&W. + newspaper clippings: “Famous Grand Ole Opry...” (no date); Home Folks by Vic Weals, May 2, 1954, re” Lucy (‘Ma’) Childress and banjo; small death notice of Lucy Childers (sic.), Gibsonton [Fla.] (no date); “ ‘Steel guitar queen’ makes Hawaiian music” re: Alma...
Dates: 1950s

Anacin Manufacturing Co. “The Employees of Anacin Manufacturing Company, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 24, 1943”

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Identifier: SPC 2009.009
Scope and Contents

“The Employees of Anacin Manufacturing Company, Knoxville, Tennessee, March 24, 1943” (Army Navy E Flag on wall in photograph)

Dates: 1943

Annie Brownlow Patrick portrait

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Identifier: SPC 2018.006
Scope and Contents

Annie Brownlow Patrick, ca. 1888-1893, Taken by A.E. Rinehart Studio, Londoner Block, Denver, CO. She was the daughter of W.G. Brownlow.

Dates: ca. 1888-1893

Annual Spring Tour and Meeting

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Identifier: SPC 1995.034
Scope and Contents

Annual Spring Tour and Meeting. L-r: Dr. David Adkisson, President of Cleveland State College; speakers: Col. James F. Corn, Sr., Mrs. Maurine Tipton, Mr. Terry Townsend. B&W 8x10”

Dates: 1960s-1970s

Appalachian Club Memories

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Identifier: SPC 2015.010
Scope and Contents

SPC 2015.010.001 Appalachian Club Memories near Gatlinburg. Friends of your Aunt Laura who lived in Gatlinburg. Lath house growing ginseng. RPPC SPC 2015.010.002 Appalachian Club Memories Above Little River. ‘More Smoky exploring.’ SPC 2015.010.003 Appalachian Club Memories. ‘Exploring in the Smokies.’ Faint image. SPC 2015.010.004 Appalachian Club Memories’ Aunt Bessie’s cabin in background by Little River.’ ‘She painted there in the summer at Elkmont.’

Dates: undated

Arnell Photographs

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Identifier: SPC 2014.009
Scope and Contents

SPC 2014.009.001 Group of five men, all unidentified except man on far right, Samuel Mayes Arnell (1833 Columbia, Tenn.-1903, Johnson City, Tenn.). 5x7.5” sepia print mounted on backing. 1 pc. SPC 2014.009.002 Jane Mayes Arnell (1856-1923), [daughter of Samuel Mayes Arnell]. 4x6” sepia print mounted on board. 1 pc.

Dates: ca. 1870s-1880s

Ault Family Photograph

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Identifier: QSPC 2016.011
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Ault Family Photograph, 1904. Group portrait of family of Joel Kelly Ault (1834-1914) All persons identified on verso.

Dates: 1904

Baker - Himel School 5th football team

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Identifier: SPC 1997.026
Scope and Contents

Baker - Himel School 5th football team, 1904. 8 x 10” sepia, mounted + 8 x 10” B&W copy print. 120 copy neg. available, 1991.

Dates: 1904

Blount Mansion Photographs

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Identifier: SPC 1997.001
Scope and Contents

Blount Mansion (2 ext.; main hall; drawing room); portrait of Governor William Blount; monument in memory of Mary Boyce Temple (DAR); St. John’s Episcopal Church (int.).

Dates: undated

Boyd Family Photograph

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Identifier: SPC 2009.007
Scope and Contents

Family photograph of the Boyd Family of Knoxville. Taken by T.M. Schleier, Knoxville, Tenn. Ca. 1850s. Standing: Samuel Beckett Boyd (lawyer, judge, Mayor of Knoxville). Seated, l-r: Sophia(?) Boyd Conick(?), Eva Boyd Munson, Jimmy Boyd, Sue Boyd Barton, Susan Howard Mason Boyd (Mrs. Samuel B.), Ella Boyd, John Mason Boyd, and Anna Boyd Fleming.

Dates: 1850-1870

Boyd High group of students

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Identifier: SPC 1997.030
Scope and Contents

Boyd High group of students. Schools. Mounted sepia, 7 1/5 x 5”.

Dates: undated

Caroline Buckner Collection.

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Identifier: MSC 0339
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, photographs, deeds (Sam E. Young’s papers), printed material, calling cards, dentist’s records; 1 folder with house plans. Diploma from Vanderbilt University for Henry Thomas Boyd, Doctor of Dental Surgery, April 27, 1900. Diploma is attached to a heavy paper advertisement for a backing. 1 pc. Class photograph, Vanderbilt University Dental Department, 1900. H. T. Boyd and all members are identified (along with their home states). Photograph is on mat board. [Class...
Dates: 1900-1962

Carte de visite of William G. Brownlow

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Identifier: SPC 2002.006
Scope and Contents

CDV of William G. Brownlow. Taken from waist up, hand in pocket, light colored vest with watch chain, looking slightly to side.

Dates: 1860s

Cartes-de-visite of Union Officers

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Identifier: SPC 2014.013
Scope and Contents

Eleven cartes-de-visite of Civil War Union officers. SPC 2014-013-001 Orlando M. Poe (signed). SPC 2014-013-002 M. ([Marsena] R. Patrick. SPC 2014-013-003 John G. Parke. SPC 2014-013-004 Wm. P. Sanders. SPC 2014-013-005 Rufus Saxton. SPC 2014-013-006 Robert C. Schenck. SPC 2014-013-007 Wm. Rosencrans. SPC 2014-013-008 [Lovell] Rousseau. SPC 2014-013-009 D. G. Farragut.(signed). SPC 2014-013-010 David G. Farragut. SPC 2014-013-011 Charles W. Sanford.

Dates: 1861-1865

Cas Walker and J. S. Cooper fight

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Identifier: SPC 1998.001
Scope and Contents

Cas Walker and J.S. Cooper fight, 1956. Photographs by Tom Greene (one of these pictures appeared in Life Magazine, March 19, 1956). 4 photographs + one copy negative.

Dates: 1956

Cas Walker Photographs

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Identifier: SPC 2015.003
Scope and Contents

Two 8 x 10” B&W photographs taken by Wm. Amick, Photography-Visual Sales, Tampa, Fla.. SPC 2015.003.001 Cas Walker (3rd from left) under awning with four other people. ‘Cas Walker’s Stables’ on trunk. [1954]. SPC 2015.003.002 Back of bus ‘Horses. Cas Walker’s Stables. Pass cautiously--driver asleep.’ 1954 on license plate.

Dates: 1950s

CDV of Father Abram Ryan

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Identifier: SPC 2015.005
Scope and Contents

CDV of Father Abram Ryan in 1862 while in Knoxville.

Dates: 1862

CDV of Seymour A. Mynders

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Identifier: SPC 2015.007
Scope and Contents

CDV of Seymour A. Mynders (born 1861) in military uniform. On back: The Lindsey Art Gallery No. 108 Gay Street Knoxville, Tenn. Handwritten on back: Seymour A. Mynders Captain Company “C” President Phiol-mathesian Society University of Tennessee. + photocopy of typescript biography of Mynders.

Dates: 1860s

CDV portraits of Mrs. O. P. Temple and Miss Mary Boyce Temple

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Identifier: SPC 1999.002
Scope and Contents

CDV portraits of Mrs. O.P. Temple and Miss Mary Boyce Temple, both 1870.

Dates: 1870

Central High School Class Photographs

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Identifier: SPC 2004.005
Scope and Contents

1. Central High School Class of 1938. Thompson Inc. Photo A-2209 (McClung Collection does not have negative). Sepia. 13x10.” 2. Central High School Class of 1941. Thompson Inc. Photo A-4825 (McClung Collection does not have negative). B&W. 13.25x10.”

Dates: 1938; 1941

Charles T. Gilliam, Appt., Corporal Inf., U. S. Army 1 June 1918, Camp Jackson, S.C. + Group portrait [enlistees?] Clinton, Tenn.

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Identifier: SPC 2011.021
Scope and Contents

Charles T. Gilliam, Appt., Corporal Inf., U.S. Army 1 June 1918, Camp Jackson, South Carolina. + Group portrait [WWI enlistees, train station, Clinton, Tenn?] by Clinton Art Studio

Dates: 1918

Chickamauga Dam

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Identifier: QSPC 2006.002
Scope and Contents

Panoramic photograph (8 x 20”) labeled ‘Chickamauga Dam 1-8-37.’ ‘Photo Rell Clements.’ Group of men in front of building. Sepia.

Dates: 1937

Civil War photographs (tintypes) of Tenn. soldiers, possibly Martin or Rimmer families from Jefferson County, Tenn.

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Identifier: Artifact 2011.002
Scope and Contents

Pair of Union Civil War tintypes (tinted) housed in a octagonal gutta percha case. Subjects are brothers from Jefferson County, Tenn from the Martin or Rimmer family. Case measures 3" H x 2 1/2" W. Condition: Overall very good condition.

Dates: 1861 - 1865