Postcards

Scope and Contents 215 postcards, 13 pcs. WWI papers, 9 photographs, misc. items. Subjects: World War I, postcards, photographs of WWI soldier in uniform, Mrs. Belle Jones, Robert Taylor Jones, YMCA mail to soldiers, photograph-postcards of military scenes in Europe, Knoxville postcards, Co. C, 5th Division, 7th US Engineers, US Expeditionary Forces, WWI letter, ephemera. Knoxville postcards: The Hotel Farragut (2 copies), the Masonic Temple, Holston National Bank, C.B. Atkins Residence, Lawson McGhee Library,...

Scope and Contents Knoxville Postcard Album “Have a Look at Our City” (ca. 1925); 14 photographs. Views of Knoxville and photographic portrait of Admiral David Farragut; documents and publications: photostat of appointment of Felix Grundy as U. S. Attorney General (1838) by President Van Buren; manuscript letter from G. W. Mabry to R. J. McKinney, March 20, 1871; Harper’s Weekly, June 1, 1861 (facsimile?); U. S. Pension file for Jonathan Dickerson of Illinois (WC 47-088), photocopies; Knoxville Sentinel, April...

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Two RPPC (real photo postcards) showing the lynching of Leo Frank, 1915 + related newspaper articles about the case (March 1982 Nashville Tennessean).

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Lucy Hansard Lett/George Felix Lett Collection. Photographs of the Beaumont Avenue area, Knoxville, Tenn 1910s.1920s. Additional material recd. 8-2013. Rule High School List of Deceased Alumni, 1940-1959.

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Mae Lynn Collection: includes photographs, receipts, postcards, stampless entires/covers, stamps, and ephemera. Listing with collection. + scrapbook of Spanish-American War clippings. Photographs include: Mae Lynn; Smith School in Kodak, 1902; Cherokee Knitting Mills on Baxter Avenue, 1925; Beech Springs School, 1912-1915; Grey Eagle steamboat; Aluminum Company of America WWII snapshot.

Scope and Contents Letters, photographs, and documents of Margaret Tappan Thomas of Knoxville; letters to Elkmont and some photographs. Includes University of Tennessee commencement material, 1928; Delta Delta Delta Sorority material; color reproductions of postcards including Appalachian Club, Elkmont (Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Thomas), Unaka Springs, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone Park, etc.; correspondence; photographs of Mrs. E. L. Thomas (Margaret Lowther Tappan Thomas), Margaret Tappan Thomas (Branson...

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June 30, 1938, letter from Marie & June Anne (?) ‘written by ECS’ on letterhead stationery from the Mountain View Hotel, Gatlinburg, Tenn., to Mr. C. G.(?) Kindred, Chicago, IL. ALS 3 pp. + envelope with 3 cent stamp and one unused postcard from Laurel Springs, Gatlinburg, Tenn. Back of stationery shows Scenes from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Thompson’s Inc. Letter re: stay in the mountains and local people they met.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook of Mrs. G.K. Walters (Anne Stafford) of Knoxville. Contains: photographs of Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Walters, friends, World War I pictures, airplane snapshots; calling cards; clippings; Girl Scout material; postcards (Detroit; Chicago Worlds Fair); Opti-Mrs. yearbook (Knoxville), 1947-1948; Murphy College (Sevierville) grade report for Anne Stafford, 1912; Central High School (Knoxville) graduation invitation and program, 1916; Kiwanis and Knoxville Business Men’s Club photographic...

Scope and Contents “An Act to Establish Courts” 1835, 4 pp.; Citizens Building and Loan Association pamphlet, Knoxville, Tenn., no date, 16 pp.; First Semi-Annual Report of the Covenant Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, ending June 30, 1891, 4 pp.; Commencement Ball ticket, Lamar House, June 15; Entertainment at the Coleman House invitation, February 22, 1895 (photostat); Hostetter’s Illustrated U.S. Almanac, 1883; Statement of Mossy Creek Bank, Jefferson City, Tenn., 1909; postcard from Mossy Creek...

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Two Oversize color postcards--”Newfound Gap and Rockefeller Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park” and “ A Scene from the Top of Fontana Dam, N.C. Both postcards published by “Standard Souvenirs & Novelties, Inc. Knoxville Tenn.”

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Pioneer House Restaurant. Postcard and Placemat. (Alcoa Highway, Knox County, Tenn.)

Scope and Contents Commencement Exercises booklet, 1921; Congressman Howard H. Baker Sr. photo/calendar card, 1962; Vote for Senator Estes Kefauver card; Christmas card from Nancy and Estes Kefauver, 1960; Christmas card from Nancy and Estes Kefauver, post-1960; Christmas card from Nancy and Estes Kefauver, post-1960; John J. Duncan photo/calendar card, 1974; Congressman John J. Duncan Jr. good luck penny; Postcard announcing inaugural open house to meet Governor-elect Phil Bredeson and his wife, 1/14/2003;...

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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.

Scope and Contents Arranged by place and/or subject as follows: Knoxville, other Tennessee towns, other states, misc. Postcards from various sources, both gifts and purchases. Arranged by place and subject. Donated postcards have initials of donor and date written in pencil in lower right corner of back of postcard. Include real photograph post cards (RPPC) such as the Cliff Dwellers shop in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Note from Ellie re: “Mr. and Mrs. Jones who own this and the Jones Art Shop in Woodstock.” Filed under...

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Postcard with line drawing of the old George Monroe home, drawn by Tom Clark of Knoxville. Sent to Miss Elizabeth Scruggs, Bean Rock, Ala. Postmarked Knoxville, October 21, 1907. House may have been on Middlebrook Pike.

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Color 8” x 10”photographs of the front and back of postcards written to the Beck family. Postmarked 1910-1911. Photographers stamp on back of each “bill tracy, photography, 1420 Linden Avenue Knoxville, Tennessee” Each has negative number. B-1038-V-1 through B-1038-V-38 (missing nos. 2 and 29)

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Postcards purchased by the donor’s parents on their trip to Europe in the summer of 1931 after they had finished graduate degrees In New York City.

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Arranged by place and/or subject. Finding Aid available. (1,831 postcards in archival sleeves)

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5 photograph albums of photographs of Great Smoky Mountains and Smoky Mountains Hiking Club (all in one box); 2nd box has one album of US Bicentennial postage stamps, 2 albums of postcards (most of mountains); album of photographs re: ETHS and related events. Most photographs taken by Robert Cook (Bob). Extra gift of photographs added 6/98. + last day cover from Baum’s Home of Flowers (June 30, 1942). (Books and ephemera also recd.; added to collection)

Scope and Contents Includes scrapbook of Russell W. Hanlon, Sr. (1894-1963), on Knoxville Automobile Club, Great Smoky Mountains, tourism, ca. 1920s-mid-1930s which includes information on Great Smoky Mountain Industries. Collection also includes photographs (Hanlon and McCoy families, David C. Chapman, Elkmont, Tenn., Gatlinburg, Knoxville, work by William J. McCoy, etc.); postcards; Knoxville High School Voice, 1912 and 1913; stamps; manuscripts material, including W.G. Brownlow and Oliver Temple/ Scotia...

Scope and Contents (Folders 26, 43, 49, & 75 tell of the location of Smith Family artifacts, portraits, and papers located in libraries and museums other than the McClung Collection.) Includes Tomlinson family material & Tate Springs material. Folder 13 contains postcards showing views and bldgs. of the Tate Springs Hotel. Many other postcards are in this collection, most are 19th century. Tate Springs Hotel (Inn), Knoxville Farmers Convention, agriculture, Appalachian Exposition award ribbons and...

Scope and Contents Papers of T. H. R. Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Includes his manuscript book on the Neal-Harbison-Snodgrass-Miller and Related Families (a copy is also on McClung shelves); research on other families, including Graves, Karnes (mostly land and deed research); his papers as Knoxville City Engineer, 1956-1960; World War I material from 117th Infantry, Machine Gun unit; photographic postcard of WWI ship Pocahontas; some photographs; 3 stoneware jugs (found in Knoxville dump); some WWI artifacts;...

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photographs, papers, postcards + framed plat of the Tate Springs Country Club/Golf Course designed by Donald Ross 1926 (18.5 x 34.5 inches)

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One box of Taylor photograph albums and scrapbooks including the following: 7 photograph albums; 2 postcard albums; 4 scrapbooks including one labeled “Historical Scraps, F.W. Taylor, Jr.” ; and 22 loose photographs including 1 carte de visite of Lloyd Branson.

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December 23, 1935. Post card from Carew Rice to Lucy Curtis Templeton of Knoxville, Tenn. re: Christmas and New Years wishes. ANS. 1 pc.

Front of postcard print of painting of woman holding baby, reminiscent of Knaffl Madonna. Carew Rice was a well-known silhouette artist of Charleston, South Carolina.

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TMI graduation invitation 1940; Postcards-- Chattanooga Incline Railway, TMI; Photograph--TMI Company B

Scope and Contents Ephemera 2017.002.001 The Mansion (pamphlet 13 pp.). House built in Tellico Plains in 1846 by Elisha Johnson (b. 1785 Vermont) on his property Tellico Iron Works. The Johnson family returned north in 1864. The Tellico Iron and Manufacturing Co. was purchased by W. A. Hoskins of Chattanooga. The property was later part of the W. C. Heyser Lumber Company and then the Babcock Lumber Company. 13 pp. Ephemera 2017.002.002: real photo post card of The Mansion, Tellico Plains, Tenn. by Roy Tuley...

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1947 postcard showing Mark Vonnegut’s family tree (first names only); 1906 receipt to David P. Dugan from M. F. Flenniken & Co.

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Real photo postcard (RPPC) of Wiley Oakley, Roamin’ Man O’The Mtns. Exline 58. 1 pc. in sleeve. Verso blank.

Scope and Contents The Williams-Coffin Papers consist primarily of the papers of Ella Williams, and range in date from 1875 to 1957. Ella Williams was the aunt of author Tennessee Williams. There is some correspondence from ’Tom’ [Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams]. The collection contains clippings, programs, and other material about the plays and other writings of Tennessee Williams. During World War I Ella Williams worked in Paris, France. Among her correspondents was her cousin John Sharp Williams, an U....