Knoxville Journal

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Knoxville High School Graduating Class of 1925. Printed by the Knoxville Journal.

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Knoxville Journal Ephemera: 1 wire service printout reporting the Moon Walk July 20, 1969; 4 autograph letters to Guy Smith, Knoxville Journal, signed by Estes Kefauver, J. Edgar Hoover, Everett M. Dirksen, Hubert H. Humphrey; Original Jo-Jo cartoon.

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Flong of front page of Knoxville Journal City Edition vol. 96, no. 173 on July 21, 1969. Headline: Men Walk on Moon.

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Negatives taken by staff of newspaper of local news events from the Knoxville Journal, Jan. 1, 1958 - December 1991. 73 boxes. Includes b&w and color. The negatives are arranged by the approximate date they were shot.

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A selection of old photographs discarded from the Knoxville Journal and donated to the library in 1988

Scope and Contents Tenn., Knox County Knoxville Journal Publisher's Statement, ca. 1920. Handbill from new owner, Nat G. Taylor, son of Gov. Alf Taylor and nephew of Gov. Bob Taylor. New editor-owner announces that paper will continue to be a Republican paper with no changes in staff. This handbill is lengthy in content and is a real lesson in E. Tenn. politics as it discusses Taylor's famous family in some detail. It notes that Taylor will be moving to Knoxville. Single sided bill, size 5 x 16", exc. w....

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Knoxville Journal, State and Local Murder Index, 1976-1991. Includes names of victims and those accused or convicted of murder. 2 boxes, A-L; M-Z.

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Knoxville Who’s Who of local officials (Knoxville Journal March 8, 1942)

Scope and Contents The Lillian Mashburn Collection contains newspaper clippings, brochures, and publications relating to both TVA’s Watts Bar nuclear facility whistleblower scandal and the Butcher brothers bank fraud scandal, both in 1980s East Tennessee. Other materials including correspondence, writings, real photo postcards, and genealogies reveal information about Mashburn’s ancestors and heritage. Newspaper clippings comprise a majority of the collection, recounting the breaking and...

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“Photos by Jimmy Myers.” One photograph album (10x13”) with B&W prints mounted on pages. Subjects include Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1940, dedication of Great Smoky Mountains National Park), University of Tenn. football, Knoxville and regional street scenes, Gay Street Christmas lights, and visiting celebrities, 1938-1940. Jimmy Myers was a photographer for the Knoxville Journal, then fought in World War II, and returned to work for the Tenn. Valley Authority (TVA).

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Photographs of the South Central Bell Building, Church Avenue, Second Presbyterian Church during demolition 1970. One photograph marked Hugh Lunsford, Knoxville Journal. One view of UT Stadium.

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Extracts from the Knoxville Journal coverage of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tenn., 1925. By W. C. Ross, Jr. Typescript. 45 pp. (Photocopy).

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Sheet music: “Short Skirts!” (used as a theme song on the serial history “Short Skirts” now running in the Knoxville Journal); “Victory” dedicated to Our President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Words and music by Daisy Duckworth; “Knoxville Town - A Booster’s Carol” an Exposition Song by Bert C. Hodgson, published by Clark & Jones, Knoxville, Tenn. 1909.

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--The Knoxville Sunday Journal Tennessee Valley Yearbook 1936

--The Knoxville Sunday Journal Tennessee Valley Yearbook 1937

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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.

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Footage of the Knoxville "Journal" printing press.

Scope and Contents Papers of William Rule(1839-1928), a newspaper editor, mayor of Knoxville (1873, 1898), and postmaster (1873, 1877) in Knoxville, Tenn. Born in Knox County, Tenn. Married Lucy Anne Maxey in 1858. Worked with William G. Brownlow on Knoxville Whig. Served in Sixth Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, Union Army, 1862-1865. Published Republican newspaper, the Knoxville Chronicle. Founded the Knoxville Journal in 1885, which merged with the Tribune in 1888 to become the Journal and Tribune. Rule was...