Women

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...

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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.

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“American Women Composers” by E. Katherine Crews, Spring 1958 (paper for Music 546, FSU, Tallahassee, Fla.). Carbon TS. 19 pp. Plus notes, clipping on Sarah Caldwell, 1976, and “Orff-Schulwerk Bibliography” complied by Katherine Crews, 1970. TS copy, 10 pp.

Scope and Contents Original items removed in 2003 from the McClung Collection subject vertical file on Belle Boyd. Includes: Letter of Mrs. Sue Boyd Barton, “The Vendome,” Knoxville, to Miss Mary Nelson. March 11, 1932. TS 2 pp. Re: Belle Boyd staying with her family; ‘The Intrepid Belle Boyd’ a play by Mr. & Mrs. Reece K. Acuff. TS 23 pp.; ‘Will Erect Memorial to Belle Boyd’ carbon TS of article. 9 pp.; excerpts from The War of the Rebellion re: Belle Boyd. TS 3 pp.; typed notes, 2 pp.; The Southern...

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

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SPC 1996.017a - Copy photographs from Knaffl glass plate negatives. 3 pcs. in 2 envelopes. B&W 8 x 10”. One sheet contains 4 circular photographic images (no ID); SPC 1996.017b - two portraits of unidentified women

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County Home Demonstration Agents of Tennessee. 6th annual meeting. Knoxville, Tenn. 1919. Oversize framed photograph.

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East Tennessee Female Institute. Erected 1829, demolished June 1891. AKA Knoxville Female Academy. Located on Henley Street between Hill and Main. Photograph taken May 1891. Ext. bldg. with students. approx. 7 1/5 x 5” sepia, mounted + one 8 x 10” B&W copy photograph + one 8 x 10” B&W detail.

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Diary of Ellen Rhea, December 7, 1883-December 31, 1895, and October 18 &31, 1899. 1 volume. Started in Wellesley, Mass.; later in Knoxville, Tenn. Mentions daily activities, sermons and lectures, local weddings, etc. Damage to inner binding. Also, handwritten list of officers, 1892-1906 [Women’s Missionary Society?]. 2 pcs.

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Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Sorority, Alpha Omega Chapter (Knoxville, Tenn.) scrapbooks, 1962-64, 1966-67. 2 scrapbooks. Includes snapshots, clippings, programs.

Scope and Contents “A Brief History of the Women of the Church. First Presbyterian Church.” Compiled from Church records by Nancy Hansard, 1989. Photocopy. 13 pp.; “The First Hundred Years of the First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville, Tennessee, and the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Ministry of Rev. James Park, D. D.” October 11, 1896. Photocopy of TS 24 pp.; Address, “Presbyterian Fights, Fits, and Starts: Organizing the First General Assembly, 1786-1789, the Presbyterian Church in the United States of...

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Records of the Florence Crittenton Agency in Knoxville, Tenn. Ca. 1970s-1990s. Heavily weeded.

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French’s School, ca. 1884 to 1886. Exterior with students. Appears to be same photograph as East Tennessee Female Institute, May 1891. approx. 7 1/5 x 5” sepia, mounted.

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Girls High School graduating class, 1895. Sepia 7 x 4 1/2”. mounted.

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Helen Turner at Rugby, Tenn. Ca. late 1940s-1950s. B&W snapshot

Scope and Contents Holbrook Normal College (name changed to Tennessee Normal College in 1902) material, Fountain City, Tenn.: Holbrook Normal College catalog, 1897-98; 1898 commencement invitation; May 4, 1901, graduation recital program; June 1, 1901, graduation recital program; “Woman’s Power” by Belle McNew, written for commencement, June 17, 1898. TS 4 pp.; Tenn. Normal College junior recital program, May 28, 1902; Holbrook-Tennessee Normal College annual reunion program, August 22, 1941; The Normal...

Scope and Contents Jena Glenn Waller, Hopkinsville, Ky.; Ed Pearce (in uniform), Indianapolis, IN; R. deMoody (?). Lexington, Ky., October 1890; 3 young men “Three of a Kind” Alling (?), Milray, Graham. June 13, 1894; young woman, ? Copeland, Louisville, Ky.; Lizzie Williamson and Dudley (woman and child), Lexington, Ky.; Morris Willis and Elizabeth Willis (children), Lexington, Ky.; Libbie Wilson (young woman in hood and cape with cross), Lexington, Ky.; Ben LaBree, Louisville, Ky., October 12, 1896; young...

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Minute book of the Knox County (Tenn.) Democratic Women’s Club, December 10, 1930-July 6, 1932, September 7 (no year). List inside volume names charter members, March 1928, with notes added later. Volume also includes newspaper clipping and programs from the Roosevelt Recovery Birthday Dinner, 1934, and Woodrow Wilson banquet ticket, 1933, and program, 1937. Loose papers include the constitution and by-laws, 1934, and an undated list of members.

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Archives of the Knoxville Association of Women Executives (KAWE). The archives were weeded to remove financial and private information and organized by the members before entering the McClung Collection. Original organization of the material was maintained.

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Knoxville Female Academy Class of [18]85 & 86. Ink numbers added to photograph and ID chart at bottom of mounting. sepia 6 /15 x 4”.

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Knoxville Female Auxiliary Tract Society constitution and annual reports, 1829-1833. For the Knoxville Branch of the American Tract Society to ‘promote the interests in evangelical religion and sound morality.’ Volume also includes Justices Execution Docket (James Park Book), 1836-1841, 1842. 1 volume.

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Knoxville Female Institute. May 1889. One close-up group of 8 young women (with ID sheet); one group of 8 young women sitting beneath tree, with building in background (upper left portion damaged). Sepia. Approx. 8x10”.

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Knoxville Female Seminary catalogs, 1849-50, 1850-51; E.T. Female Institute, 1848-49 catalog; Knoxville Female Institute circular and catalog, 1865-66.

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Includes one box (originally recd. in 2 boxes) of 1960s records recd. from Judy Poulson, May 2001) + 2 boxes of material (mostly 1980s-1990s) recd. 2-14-2005 via Nancy Stewart (from a the estate of a former LWV president). 1 box recd. 10-6-2010 via Doris Martinson, collected by Marjorie Reynolds. LWV Reports, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1994. LWV Voters Newsletters, 1991-2009. Also 2 boxes recd. from UT of Jane Ann Nielsen Papers 1-27-2011 (include UT finding aid).

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Biographical sketch on the life of Lizzie Crozier French, Knoxville, Tenn. Primarily about her work with women’s causes. 14 handwritten pages. Unsigned. Ca. late 1890s.

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Lloyd Branson photograph of Madonna and Child. Sepia print of woman and baby, mounted on matte backing; signed in pencil.

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Papers of Knoxville writer Margaretta Brown, who supported herself as a widow by serving as a secretary to the Knoxville Superintendent of Schools (1919-1927) and then to the Knoxville Law Director. Includes copies of two books by her: “Poems and Prose” and “Reflections.”

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“Miss Martha Brownlow; or the Heroine of Tennessee.” Etched portrait of Martha Brownlow (Susan Brownlow) from the cover of a ca. 1862 book published by Barclay & Co., Philadelphia. 1 pc. (fragile, brittle).

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Collection of 14 tintypes of young girls from the Morristown area, most with photographer identification and all but one person identified as well. Possibly all students at some female academy? Images are each about the size of a thumb nail. Each in a paper envelope with photographer’s name stamped on the verso

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Mrs. Mary Faust (age 108) and two children “Coon” and “Sis.” At their log cabin home near Andersonville, Anderson County, Tenn. Sepia 4 x 6”, mounted on board with printed text on back. Copyright 1910.