Christmas

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Several hundred feet of silent 16mm film depicting the private life of the Crowder family in and around Knoxville, TN, from approximately 1947 to 1953. Some segments are duplicated throughout the collection.

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David Babelay’s 1997 Christmas letter (5 pp., much about family research) and Bertha Pierce McCampbell’s family notes from Christmases, 1914-1924 (typescript), + note about family toys on exhibit and one page of photocopied pictures featuring the toys.

Scope and Contents Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. 120 copy negatives of selected etchings from the January and August 1858 issues. Illustrations copied from January 1858 issue: p. 173 Kan Foster, p. 182 Fording Indian Creek, p. 182 They’re Coming. From the August 1858 issue: p. 289 Loading Corn on the Tennessee (2 copies), p.291 [young boy], p. 294 Christmas, p. 294 The Maid, p. 295 Tuning Up (2 copies), p. 296 Emigrant Ark, p. 297 Ne Plus Ultra, p. 298 Iron Works Chattanooga, p. 300 Speculators, p. 301...

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Thanksgiving Dinner menu, 1914, from the Hotel Imperial, Knoxville, Tenn. Thursday, Nov. 26, 1914. In cover, with cord (some damage to fold). Ephemera, Christmas Dinner menu, 1914. Imperial Hotel, Knoxville, Tenn. In cover, with cord. Ephemera.

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

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Copy photograph of 1940s Nativity Pageant at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Knoxville, Tenn. Actress Patricia Neal in group (possibly second female to the left of Mary ). 8x10”

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Postcard Album of Miss Grace Livingstone, Midway, Tenn. (The surname is also spelled Livingston on some postcards). 146 postcards in album + ‘Views of the Panama Canal’ postcard folder, 1915. Dates ca. 1900s-1910s. Includes Jefferson City, Tenn. and C.N.C. (Carson-Newman College?), holiday postcards, sentimental postcards, etc.

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Letter from R[obert] E. Lee, Arlington, to daughter Agnes. December 16, 1855. ALS 3 pp. (1 pc.). Re: arrangements for her to come home for Christmas and sending money to her. Letter to Wm. W. Carson from R[obert] E. Lee, Lexington, Va. June 29, 1869. ALS 1 p. Re: Lee recommending him for professor of mathematics job at West Tennessee College in Jackson, Tenn. + typed transcription of letter.

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Footage that may be personal home movies, including children, a baby, family gathering, Easter, Christmas, snow, a puppy, and a picnic