Market Square

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128 Years of Market Square Business: 1880-2008, compiled by Forrest Conklin for the East Tennessee Historical Society.

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Approximately 200 separate reels of 16mm film of various lengths, totaling several thousand feet, representing Vic Weals' activities as a journalist, news stringer, and industrial filmmaker in East Tennessee from the 1950s to the 1970s. Weals was a columnist for the Knoxville Journal for several decades. The collection includes raw footage, pre-print materials, and preservation elements for a 1957 sponsored film promoting the Knox County school system.

Scope and Contents MM-1979 076 a: Blagg Family Bible records, 1 p.; Wm. Dick, New Market, Tenn., correspondence, 1838, 1849; Calvin M. Dyer Civil War papers and correspondence; January 3, 1852 Christian Observer; 1855 American Presbyterian Almanac; Thornburgh and O’Conner clippings. MM.1979.076 b: photographs of New Market, Tenn., and Yellow Store in New Market, ca. 1890s-1910s; old mill in upper East Tenn.; Market Square, 1899; Dyer House, Grainger County, Tenn., ca. 1870s; Sarah Dick, C. M. Dyer, and Andrew...

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Downtown Knoxville Association, Market Square, 1959-1967 and file on Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan One Government Proposals, 1959

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“Haynes House, Prince Street, Bet. Custom Houses and Market Square” Knoxville, Tenn.

Scope and Contents 4 framed photographs (ca. 1960s?). Bill Tracy Photography: Spence Shoe Shop, Kimball's, Fowler's, Penny's, The Knox, and others. Glass is loose in the frame. Photograph is faded and is 19 x 15" in a 26 x 22" frame. Day view. Bill Tracy Photography: Corner of Gay Street and Clinch looking north toward the Sterchi Building. Day view with buses, shoppers, and cars. 19 x 15" color photograph in 27 x 23" frame. Bill Tracy Photography: Market Square, night view, during Dogwood Arts Festival....

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Images of old McClung Children's library. Also footage of downtown development (Market Square).

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Material on Knoxville’s Market Square, ca. 1960s, removed from the files of Ben Barber, Barber & McMurry, Inc., Knoxville. Includes photographs; newspaper clippings, 1961-1963; blueline copies of 1928 architectural drawing of the Market House; magazine articles, 1962.

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Informative brochure about the 2005 plan to outline the original footprint of the Market House in the bricks in Market Square. Includes drawings of the East Elevation and Second Floor Plan of the Market House as well as diagram of Market Square plan. Also quotes from original quotations displayed up in the Market House. Research and design by Martha Shepp-James.

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Snapshots of Ronald Reagan at Market Square (1980)

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Research done by Warner Ogden (writer for the Knoxville News-Sentinel) on the downtown Knoxville re-development projects in the 1960s, i.e., the GAY/WAY and the Market Square Project. Some photographs.