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Diplomas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

American Temperance University diplomas and publications, 1899-1902.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0090
Scope and Contents

American Temperance University diplomas and publications, 1899-1902.

Dates: 1899-1902

Bernice Stiles material.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.2016.006
Scope and Contents Bernice Stiles (May 6, 1905-April 26, 1997) material. Donated by her friend Edith L. Embrey from material found in Bernice Stiles’ apartment after her death. Ms. Stiles had no family left. MM.2016.006 a: Dec. 6, 1896, letter from S. G. Gilreath, State Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction, Nashville, Tenn., to ‘My dear Tom; (C. T. Stiles), Wilson Station, Tenn. ALS 1 p. Mentions Stiles’ good character, urges him to finish college. Also: CDV of Lillie Miller Stiles, taken by W. F.?...
Dates: 1890-1900

Blanche Hooten diploma from Southern Female College in Lagrange Georgia (in Latin (From the Hall-Stakely Papers)

 Collection
Identifier: QMM.2001.001
Scope and Contents

Printed diploma (with blanks filled in) for Blanche Hooten, Southern Female College in Lagrange, Georgia (diploma written in Latin). DS Parchment 1 pc. with blue ribbon.

Dates: 19th century

Burchfiel Family Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0648
Scope and Contents The Burchfiel Family Papers (1893-1916), includes financial and legal documents of the Burchfiel family of Jefferson County, Tennessee. The collection includes: receipts, promissory notes, and a land deed of W. M. Burchfiel (died May 1903), his wife Ellen Burchfiel, his father Milas W. Burchfiel, and son Thomas Burchfiel; documentation pertaining to a legal case filed by J. E. Fox and Company against Ellen Burchfiel et al. in February 1905 for payment of debts claimed to be due to him from...
Dates: 1893-1916

Caroline Buckner Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0339
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, photographs, deeds (Sam E. Young’s papers), printed material, calling cards, dentist’s records; 1 folder with house plans. Diploma from Vanderbilt University for Henry Thomas Boyd, Doctor of Dental Surgery, April 27, 1900. Diploma is attached to a heavy paper advertisement for a backing. 1 pc. Class photograph, Vanderbilt University Dental Department, 1900. H. T. Boyd and all members are identified (along with their home states). Photograph is on mat board. [Class...
Dates: 1900-1962

Dent/Mitchell Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0955
Scope and Contents

Photographs (many unidentified) and ephemera of the Dent Mitchell Family. Includes items related to Henry Minor Dent, Sr., Henry Minor Dent, Jr., Dorothy Mitchell Hale, Fannie Hale, and others. Yearbooks (1937, 1938, 1940) from Dobyns-Bennett High School (Kingsport Tenn.) Photographs and ephemera from University of Tennessee and Delta Tau Delta fraternity (1940s). Handwritten 1902 recipe book by Fannie Hale.

Dates: 1880 - 1949

Diploma of Ella Hodges from Tennessee Normal College, Fountain City, 1904. Music Department.

 Collection
Identifier: Q Ephemera 2013.003
Scope and Contents

Diploma of Ella Hodges from Tennessee Normal College, Fountain City, 1904. Music Department.

Dates: 1904

Diploma of Fred Barthel Toomey, Columbia Military Academy.

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 1919.001
Scope and Contents

Diploma of Fred Barthel Toomey, Columbia Military Academy, 1919.

Dates: 1919

Diploma of Lillian Bowman, Sweetwater High School, Monroe County, Tennessee, 1917.

 Collection
Identifier: Q Ephemera 2013.002
Scope and Contents

Diploma of Lillian Bowman, Sweetwater High School, Monroe County, Tennessee, May 18, 1917.

Dates: 1917

Diploma of William G. Rose, UTK, M.S. in Education, 26 August 1932.

 Collection
Identifier: Q Ephemera 2019.005
Scope and Contents

Diploma of William G. Rose, University of Tennessee Knoxville, M.S. in Education, 26 August 1932.

Dates: 1932

Dr. Calvin J. K. Moore Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0363
Scope and Contents Dr. Calvin J. K. Moore items. Carolyn M. Scruggs gift, 1 oversize folder containing 4 original documents of Dr. Calvin Jefferson Keyes Moore: his appointment as Superintendent of the Oklahoma Territorial Board of Health, 1899; his medical diploma (signed by James Van Deventer) from Tennessee Medical College (TMC) and diploma from the TMC Society, both Knoxville, Tennessee, 1894; and a certificate concerning his physicians records, Greenville, Texas, 1895. A smaller folder contains 1 copy...
Dates: 1894-1899

Knoxville High School, diploma of Hannah Hylton, 1935.

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2010.008
Scope and Contents

Knoxville High School, diploma of Hannah Hylton, 1935

Dates: 1935

Margaret A. Sharp diploma from the Tennessee School for the Blind (no date)

 Collection
Identifier: QMM.2003.006
Scope and Contents

Margaret A. Sharp diploma from the Tennessee School for the Blind, High School Course of Study, no date. Signed by Edward H. East, President. 1 pc. Gift of Mary Lynn Gilmore. + photocopy of clipping “Blind Piano” Mrs. Maggie Graves (3 copies).

Dates: 1890

Mary U. Rothrock Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: MSC 0242
Scope and Contents Mary Utopia Rothrock (1890-1976) papers. Weeded by Miss Rothrock before donation. Subject divisions include: Biographical material; library; speeches, writings and publishing; history textbooks; historical research; Tennessee Historical Commission; historic preservation; McClung Collection; East Tennessee Historical Society; other historical societies; hereditary societies and groups; Rothrock genealogy; correspondence and papers; diaries and calendars; person papers--property holdings,...
Dates: 1908-1974

Medical diploma of Charles Meigs Cawood from Tulane University, 1889, + 1 page from an 1882 New York newspaper showing the Custom House in Knoxville.

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2019.008
Scope and Contents

Medical diploma of Charles Meigs Cawood from Tulane University, 1889 (located FL 09-24). The Daily Graphic newspaper, page 101 only: New York, 1882, showing Knoxville buildings including the Custom House (located FL 09-22). 2 items, gift of (Judge Houston Goddard?).

Dates: 1880s

Roy Isaac Gentry Public County High School diploma

 Collection
Identifier: Q Ephemera 2019.006
Scope and Contents

Diploma issued by State of Tennessee to public high school graduates. Contains engraving of the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville. Includes record of the eighteen credits taken to graduate. Diploma issued to Roy Isaac Gentry on April 27, 1920 at Gibbs High School of Knoxville. Contains seal of “Department of Public Instruction, State of Tennessee”

Dates: 1920