Graduation ceremonies

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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.

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Girls High School graduating class, 1895. Sepia 7 x 4 1/2”. mounted.

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Graduates, North Knoxville School. 1896. Printed B&W supplement to the Knoxville Tribune. Front cover only; torn. Lists names of seven graduates.

Scope and Contents Holbrook Normal College (name changed to Tennessee Normal College in 1902) material, Fountain City, Tenn.: Holbrook Normal College catalog, 1897-98; 1898 commencement invitation; May 4, 1901, graduation recital program; June 1, 1901, graduation recital program; “Woman’s Power” by Belle McNew, written for commencement, June 17, 1898. TS 4 pp.; Tenn. Normal College junior recital program, May 28, 1902; Holbrook-Tennessee Normal College annual reunion program, August 22, 1941; The Normal...

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1877 Knoxville High School valedictory address by Isabella Boyd (later Allen) entitled “There Is No Pleasure Without Alloy.” + newspaper clippings re: early classes of Knoxville High School.

Scope and Contents East Tennessee Institute for Girls (Knoxville), 1895-96 catalog + 1898 clipping re: commencement; East Tennessee University order of exercises for commencement, 1857; Chi Delta Literary Society, U.T., 1883 program; University School (Knoxville) 1891-92 program; Public School Exhibition, Staub’s Opera House, 1877 program; Knoxville Public Schools, A Course in Reading and Literature, 1900; Girls’ High School (Knoxville) commencement, invitation, commencement week schedule; Miss Ogden’s School...

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New Market, Tenn.: -One photograph of small building with 3 African American men in front; -Young African American woman holding book ‘Thy Kingdom Come.’ word Brazelton written on bottom; -Young African American woman holding diploma(?), words L .D. Fagg, Knoxville, Tenn. written on bottom; -Portrait of African American man; -Outdoor photograph of white woman with two children.