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Albums

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Album of Albert Chavannes, 1853.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.1993.021 a&b
Scope and Contents

Album of Albert Chavannes (1841-1913), a French-speaking Swiss American of Knoxville, presented to him by his aunt Anna Francillon Chavannes. Contains writings in French (poems) and sketches, most done in pencil and signed. MM.1993.021 a: is the original album MM.1993.021 b: photocopy of the album. Cover is missing; loose pages.

Dates: 1850-1870

Album of Knoxville History (Trivia); Album on Millenium Manor Castle, Alcoa, Tenn.

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0108
Scope and Contents

Album of Knoxville History (Trivia); Album on Millenium Manor Castle, Alcoa (Tenn.).

Dates: 1958-2008

Chumlea (Mary Jane Mize Chumlea photograph album). (photographs)

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0005
Scope and Contents

Photograph album of Mary Jane Mize Chumlea (born Oct. 10, 1854 in Georgia), second wife of William Claiborne Chumlea (born Aug. 31, 1845 in Knox Co., Tenn. He was a lawyer in Blount Co., Tenn. for 50 years after the Civil War). Album was probably started after their marriage in 1880. Contains 48 photographs, many identified. Album is in poor condition with loose pages and hinge missing from cover. Most photographs are of Chumlea family members or relatives.

Dates: 1880-1900

David Thomas Kirk.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0730
Scope and Contents

David Thomas Kirk: personal journals, family photograph album, newspaper clippings etc. 1899-1959. Kirk was a Methodist minister, farmer and house builder. Details of life in Bybee, Cocke County, Tenn. 2 boxes.

Dates: 1899-1959

Ellen Renshaw House Fletcher Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0574
Scope and Contents

Ellen Renshaw House Fletcher (1843-1907) kept the Civil War diary in Knoxville which was published as “A Very Violent Rebel.” After the war Ellen married James William Fletcher, and the family remained in Knoxville, Tennessee. She and her family are buried in Old Gray Cemetery. The collection includes photographs, small artifacts, and a few documents mostly from the postwar years.

Dates: 1850-1923

Emma Hope Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0081
Scope and Contents

Hope family letters, no date, 1823-1838; poem “Our Boys,” 1884; three photograph albums containing Hope family snapshots and pictures of local resorts, the Appalachian Exposition, Great Smoky Mountains, Elkmont, Henderson Springs, Jamestown Exposition, World War I parade in Knoxville, ships, etc.; Thomas Hope documents; The Builder’s Golden Rule by William Pain, no date (before 1828). Contains notes and entries by Thomas Hope.

Dates: 1823-1884

Hood Family photograph album

 Collection
Identifier: PC 0025
Scope and Contents Photograph album (worn red velvet with decorative element on cover with the word ‘Portraits', fastener broken, some torn pages). 19 photographs. Inscription on flyleaf “For Margie From Papa and Mama Christmas 1893". A second inscription: ”For May From Auntie June 28, 1923”. Some pages have handwritten labels but no photographs. The identified photographs: ‘Hoods in Knoxville. May 17, 1902. Brakebill & McCoy; Uncle Will Hood’s little grandson (MD); “Mrs. Parsley his wife who is dead”;...
Dates: 1893-1923

Hugh C. Tyler Photograph Album, including James Agee.

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0073
Scope and Contents Folder 1: October 20, 1948 letter from Hugh (Tyler), South Kent, CT, to Helen. ALS 4 pp. Re: Knoxville, Rufus (James Agee); August 16, 1950(?) letter from Laura (Tyler Agee) to Paula (Tyler). ALS 3 pp. Re: terms of sale, mentions Rufus (James Agee); August 11, 1950 envelope addressed to Paula Tyler. Folder 2: 1975 newspaper clipping with picture of Hugh Tyler + photocopy; photocopy of letter from donor. Folder 3: photograph album with 1911 April 1st picture; WWI (?) parade in Knoxville;...
Dates: 1911-1916; 1948-1950

James E. Thompson Photograph Albums re: streetcar tracks, ca. 1904-1905.

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0044
Scope and Contents

Album of photographs taken by James E. Thompson, ca. 1904-1905, of the construction of streetcar tracks in Knoxville and Knox County, Tenn. 1 album (90 leaves, 720 photographs). Backs of photographs are identified with job number, date, job location.

Dates: 1904-1905

James Robinson Ogden Photograph Album. Civil War CDVs. Gift of Miss Lucy Ogden. (Photographs)

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0153
Scope and Contents

Photograph album of James Robinson Ogden, who came to Knoxville with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War, Leather 5x6” album containing mostly Civil War era CDVs (cartes-de-visite). 22 photographs. Subjects include: John Keyes, view of Knoxville(?), [General Ambrose] Burnside, General George Stoneman, James R. Mitchell, H.C. Squire(?), W. Chamberlain, Henry Chester, E.C. Ruggles.

Dates: 1860s

James Van Deventer Sketch Album. Gift of Louis Le Couteulx, April 7, 1841.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.2006.012
Scope and Contents

Red leather album Presented to James Vandeventer (Van Deventer) by Louis Le Couteulx, Buffalo, April 7, 1841. Contains sketches of faces depicting emotions. 1 vol.

Dates: 1841

Mabry and Charlton Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0238
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of three generations of the Charlton, Mabry, and Hazen families, Knoxville. 1832, 1854-1940. Also included are business papers, scrapbooks, and ledgers. A supplemental accession was made by Ronald R. Allen on December 30, 1993, which was incorporated into the collection.

Dates: 1832-1940

Mary Strong’s Album, 1830s; Hazen & Mabry Bible entries.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.1993.002
Scope and Contents

Mary Strong’s Album (contains poems and autographs), 1830s. Family entries from Hazen & Mabry Family Bible. PHOTOCOPIES.

Dates: 1830-1840; 1853-1898

McCallie Photographs (Sevier County, Tenn.)

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0072
Scope and Contents Broadside for the sale of A. J. McCallie’s Sevier County, Tenn., farm, 1891; photograph album of McCallie Home, Sevier County, Tenn. 12 photographs; copy photographs of home of Andrew J. McCallie (+ original photograph), hen house, cistern, Joseph M. McCallie and niece; Sevier County schoolhouses - Middle Creek class and McCroskey School; Andrew Jackson McCallie and Harriet Theodocia Adeline Cunningham McCallie at their house on Boyds Creek, Sevier County, Tenn.; sisters of J.M. McCallie;...
Dates: 1879 - 1907

Miss Lucie Fain Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0036
Scope and Contents

Miss Lucie Fain Photograph Album, mostly carte d vixite photographs. Only a few are identified, most of them relatives of Lucie Fain. “Miss Lucie Fain” imprinted on the cover of the album. A few later photographs are tucked into the album.

Dates: 1850-1890

Photograph album donated by Miss Gussie Tutterow. (photographs)

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0164
Scope and Contents

Photograph album donated by Miss Gussie Tutterow; owner of album not known. 4 x 5 6/8” album with 20 CDVs (cartes-de-visite), 4 tintypes, and 2 index cards. Most are unidentified portraits. Two IDs: Josie Hundly (?) and toddler Annie Pearl Hayes (born 1875). One of the index cards has an untitled poem with the repeated line ‘In the Upper Garden.’

Dates: 1880s

Photographs Showing Progress of Construction Gay Street Viaduct

 Collection
Identifier: SPC 2017.004
Scope and Contents

Photographs Showing Progress of Construction Gay Street Viaduct. Knoxville, Tennessee. 1919. L. W. Frierson, Supervising Engr. Taken by Thompson Brothers, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 album 7 x 12.5”: 25 photographs mounted on linen.

Dates: 1919

Remembrance Album, ca. 1840s-1860s.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.nd.001
Scope and Contents

Remembrance album (cover missing) with handwritten poems and notes, engravings, etc. Ca. 1840s-1860s. Owner unknown.

Dates: 1840s-1860s

Taylor Family Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks (Gift of Laura H. Henson and Gage H. Acuff)

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0871
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1850-1930