Scrapbooks

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Scrapbooks on Knoxville and Knox County kept by Margaret Ann Roth (d. May 4, 2004). 22 scrapbooks. News articles (with dates) pasted in scrapbooks covering the history and events in Knoxville and Knox County. Topics include history of Knoxville, 1982 World’s Fair, Old Knoxville/Early Knoxville, Old East Tennessee, early railroads, fires.

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Margaret Millar Rogan scrapbooks-- newspaper articles and clippings pasted over old published books. Late 19th century. Includes John Miller's daily journal (1916); Domestic Science notebook from Knoxville High School (1913).

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Four volumes of scrapbooks kept by Margaret Perkins Duggan: 1910-1915, 1915-1921, 1941-1943, 1944-1953

Scope and Contents Papers and artifacts of Mary Katherine Dulin (Mrs. Clifford Folger), her school scrapbook (Finch School, 1920s and Miss Beard’s School), travel mementoes, photographs, condolence letters re: her father’s death, some small artifacts of H. L. Dulin. The personal letters and diaries were not donated to the McClung Collection. The Mary Katherine Dulin Collection consists primarily of school mementos and personal sewing and art supplies with some photographs, publications, and items related to...

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Mascot Community Club scrapbooks, 1947-48 through 1974-75 ; two scrapbooks from 8th grade at Mascot School “The Hilltop,” 1955-56, 1956-57; 1956 booklet on remodeling of Catherine Arthur Library; plaques and awards; photographs, papers, reports and minutes, 1947-1975; ribbons (awards), including TVA&I Fair, 1947-1964 (some gaps).

Scope and Contents Papers of Calvin Morgan McClung, son of Frank H. McClung and Eliza Mills McClung. Includes correspondence of Calvin M. McClung, his parents, his wife Annie McGhee McClung, her sisters, their daughters Lida McClung Ross and May Lawson (Polly) McClung Melish, and other family and friends. Most of the letters are from 1874-1898. Subjects include: Calvin McClung’s years at Yale, 1874-1876; his trip to Europe in 1878; trips by relatives to resorts and to Europe; Annie McClung’s death at Saratoga...

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Cards, images, newspaper clippings glued to pages of scrapbook. Most images and clippings of women’s clothing and hats as well as social events (worldwide, not Knoxville). Pages crumbling on edges. Binding damaged, many pages loose. First page, in pencil “Mildred Ager [Eager?] Cumberland Gap, Tenn.”

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Miss Annie McGhee Scrapbook about her school for dance; includes programs for recitals, newspaper clippings, and photographs of performances at the McClung estate Belcaro in Fountain City, Tenn.

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Mrs. Amanda Park McTeer Scrapbook, 1850s-1890s.

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Newspaper clippings pasted in scrapbook, most undated. Spine detached. Written in pencil inside front cover “Scrap Book made by Mrs. Amanda (Park) McTeer, Family records, etc.”

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Added to this collection: Ada M. Larew (Mrs. Charles L. Larew) scrapbook, 1923-1934. Includes stories and poems by Mrs. Larew and framed tribute to George Washington by Mrs. Larew (from box on CS 10-07) Manuscripts, fiction, poems, published and unpublished.

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Mrs. Fred C. Breeding (Josephine Stone Breeding). Scrapbooks include clippings including poems, local history, Bert Vincent columns “Strolling.” Also Mrs. Breedings newspaper columns “Sidewalks and Country Roads,” “Your World and Mine,” some published in the “Maryville Enterprise.”

Scope and Contents Scrapbook of Mrs. G.K. Walters (Anne Stafford) of Knoxville. Contains: photographs of Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Walters, friends, World War I pictures, airplane snapshots; calling cards; clippings; Girl Scout material; postcards (Detroit; Chicago Worlds Fair); Opti-Mrs. yearbook (Knoxville), 1947-1948; Murphy College (Sevierville) grade report for Anne Stafford, 1912; Central High School (Knoxville) graduation invitation and program, 1916; Kiwanis and Knoxville Business Men’s Club photographic...

Scope and Contents The collection is primarily scrapbooks dealing with her life and her family kept by Deas Sinkler Adams Briscoe (Mrs. Russell Briscoe,). She was from Kensington, Md. but her family was from S. C. Deas Adams (1902-1987) met Russell Briscoe (1899-1979) while he served in the military in Washington, D. C., during World War I. The couple were married in 1923. Russell Briscoe worked for J. E. Lutz Insurance eventually serving as executive vice president. He was also active in many civic...

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Guest book, 1908-1912.

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Scrapbook of newspaper clippings re: the motion picture industry, 1922-1924, kept by Laura Thornburgh, National Motion Picture chairman of the National League of American Pen Women. 1 volume. Includes donor’s letter at front of volume and loose 1934 clipping re: Laura Thornburgh.

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Box 1: Yearbooks of the Opti-Mrs. Club of Knoxville for: 1936-37, 1952-53, 1953-54, 1955-56, 1958-59, 1963-64, 1965-66, 1966-67, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1971-72, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76. Additional yearbooks are located in the scrapbooks. Opti-Mrs. scrapbook, 1935-53. Box 2: Opti-Mrs. scrapbook, 1968-75. The organization was also known as the Uptown Opti-Mrs. Club.

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Optimist Club of South Knoxville scrapbook, papers, and newsletters.

Scope and Contents Ossoli Circle scrapbook on the 75th anniversary of women’s suffrage and the Tennessee Suffrage Woman’s Memorial (in Market Square, Knoxville, Tenn.) , 2006. (scrapbooks). Includes photographs, clippings, printed material, cloth sash with ‘Vote for Women’ on it. Inside cover contains several autographs and comments. Scrapbook compiled by Wanda Sobieski and given to Ossoli Circle. (Cloth sash not in box 6/2018). Also included: invitation to GFWC Ossoli Circle’s 125th anniversary celebration...

Scope and Contents The original scrapbooks were compiled by Penelope Johnson Allen. These were photocopied and bound in 4 alphabetical volumes available on library shelves. Additional photocopy is in boxes with the original volumes, which are quite fragile. Penelope Johnson Allen (1886-1985) was a native of Chattanooga, Tenn. She graduated from Chattanooga High School in 1904 and attended Mrs. Starrett’s School in Chicago, and Western College at Oxford, Ohio. After college, she was a newspaper reporter in...

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Pvt. Benjamin Crownover Giddens Papers. Box 1: 13 manuscripts including the Civil War letters of Pvt. Benjamin C. Giddens, 3rd Tennessee Lilliard’s Infantry, Company “G” and letters of his father, Rev. Riley Anderson Giddens of Bradley County, Tenn.. Also, tintype of Pvt. Benjamin C. Giddens, R. W. Selvidge, Cleveland, Tenn., to sister. ALS 1 pc. /2 pp. On letterhead. Re: Settlement of father’s estate + photocopies of information re: John Conway Jefferson Selvidge, rifle maker.

Scope and Contents Scope: 3 scrapbooks containing Knoxville newspaper clippings, original photographs, ephemera, brochures for train excursions, newspaper account of the last passenger train service in Knoxville, last run of the final Knoxville electric streetcar in 1947, and related materials. Primarily relating to trains, but also including streetcars. Mostly concerning Southern and L & N Railways (1967-1969), with a few items from earlier years. Items were probably kept by an (unidentified) Knoxville...

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Scrapbook of glued-in newspapers clippings of the column by Dr. Frederick Augustus Ross, D. D. (1796-1883). Some identified as from the Christian Observer (Richmond, Va.). Title of column was “Rev. Dr. Ross’ Column.” Mostly religious and political. Undated. Includes printed copy of December 16, 1868, letter from Dr. Ross, Huntsville, Ala., to Col. John A. McKinney, Rogersville, Tenn.

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Materials from the Reviewers’ Club (book review club), Fountain City, Tenn,. 1917-1984. Minutes, history, annual programs, scrapbook, clippings. Box 1 : Minutes, 1917-1945 Box 2: Minutes, 1945-1984 Box 3: Annual programs, 1917-1984 Box 4: History, 1916-1984 Box 5: Scrapbooks .

Scope and Contents Records of the Rotary Club of Knoxville (commonly called the “Downtown Rotary Club”) Includes: Box 1 former member files & scholarship receipts: 2 former president files and former member files; 3 former member files; 4 old directories and photographs; 5 History of Knoxville Club, pt. 1; 6 History of Knoxville Club, pt. 2; 7 Roll Books, early 1960s-late 1980s; 8 minutes of the Board of Directors, 1942-1994; 9 Rotary International History 50 Years of Service, Knox. minutes 1970s-1980s; 10...

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Rule High School Scrapbooks: Awa Nita, 1959-1990; minutes, 1958-1983, 1988-1990. Notebooks with clippings. Rule High School was named for Knoxville newspaper editor William Rule. The school opened in 1927 and closed in 1991.

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Scrapbook of Miss Ruth Davis, ca. 1912-1914. Includes snapshots, programs, calling cards, autographs, etc. Mostly about Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Va., and a few Knoxville items.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Sallie McDowell Moffett and her husband John T. (Tom) Moffett. 1832-1916. Includes letters during their courtship and during the Civil War (John T. Moffett was a Sgt. in Capt. Lynch’s Artillery, CSA). Letters include home life, family, military camp life and details of battles, some correspondence with other family members, business papers, church matters. About 450 letters. (118 folders in 3 boxes). Box 4 has family photographs, including Photograph of John Thomas...

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Scrapbooks of S.G. (Sam) Heiskell (Mayor of Knoxville 1896-97). Mostly newspaper clippings (many about Heiskell and politics) and ephemera. V. 1 1895-1907. 174 pp. (former accession # 4509) V. 2 1906-1912. 144 pp. (former accession # 4510) V. 3 1911-1915. 100 pp. (former accession # 4511) V. 4 1915-1918 144 pp. (former accession # 4512) V. 5 1917-1920 140 pp. (former accession # 4513)

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Sampson R. Dameron Scrapbook. (1921-1978) Knoxville, Tenn. Typesetters, Typography, and newspaper publishing.