Chilhowee Park

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White ribbon with blue ink: ‘Reunion of Carter Family Chilhowee Park October 15th, 1914.’ 2 x 6” Fragile condition. Also, typed copy of article from a Knoxville newspaper (not identified) dated October 15, 1914 about the William Carter Family Reunion.

Content Description Preservation elements for a 35mm silent newsreel depicting the dedication ceremonies and opening day activities for a playground at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, TN, on July 18, 1948. Mayor James Elmore and multiple Knoxville "News-Sentinel" staff members appear in the film. Cineric, Inc. (New York, NY) and Magno Sound and Video (New York, NY) created the preservation elements. Scope and Contents Intertitles introduce viewers to the agenda...

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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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Stock certificate no. 1 to Jacob Henry from the Knoxville Lake Park Springs Company. ADS 1 pc. with seal (edges torn, dirty). Center drawing shows what is now Chilhowee Park.

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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Photographic postcard of three men in automobile, Chilhowee Park, Knoxville, Tenn. Ca. 1911 or 1913. L-r: Unknown, Cary Spence, Lawrence D. Tyson. (McClung made neg. July 1997)

Scope and Contents SPC 2017.014.001 R. L. Harris Road Machinery display, Chilhowee Park (1920s). Man at right in white shirt in background is business founder Robert Luck Harris.8x10: mounted, sepia. 1 pc. SPC 2017.014.002 Jerry Wilson, vice president of R. L. Harris, Inc., delivers a CAT D7 road grader to Knoxville Mayor Jack Dance. (4-10-1959). 8x10” sepia 1 pc. SPC 2017.014.003 Estes Kefauver (2nd from right) and Bill Harris, Sr. (right) in front of airplane, probably at McGhee Tyson Airport on a campaign...

Scope and Contents Members of the Crowder family pose for the camera in semi-formal attire on a lawn on a sunny day. The family pose on a bridge in Pigeon Forge, TN, with the Pigeon Forge mill dam in the background. Hubert Crowder mimes as though he is about to fall off the bridge. Buildings are visible near either end of the bridge. The family has a meal at a picnic table as the boy cousins run around and play. Gary Crowder plays in a costume of girls' clothes with a red...

Scope and Contents Mildred, Gary, and the infant Mike Crowder pose for the camera in a dim room. Hubert and Gary examine various stationary airplanes at Knoxville Downtown Island Airport in Knoxville, TN. Patchy snow sits on the ground. Men in flight jackets and jumpsuits inspect a plane, which appears to be a Douglas DC-3, is stencilled "Kesterson Inc." and numbered "NC52200" on the tail. Albert Lowe and another man pose beside a hangar full of aircraft. Planes fly overhead and land on the runway....

Label on Original Can

"Swimming at Elmont Joe Ruby Charles Bales Jim and Margaret [two illegible words, perhaps names] / Cemetery (grandmaw, Vella, Geraldine, Ruby, Mary, [one illegible word, perhaps a name] fire trucks [one illegible word] / Aligator [sic] park"

Label on Original Can

"[illegible name] and Betty"