Scrapbooks

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Tennessee Womens’ Press and Authors Club Scrapbooks.

Scope and Contents “The Scrapbooks of Martha Lanier Graham.” Chattanooga area. Box 1 Scrapbook (Clippings 1920s-1930s) Scrapbook (Clippings, photographs 1930s) Photograph Album (Family photographs 1950s-1990s) Boxes 2-6 contain family photograph albums featuring international travels. Other materials in boxes 7 & 8 include: Photograph: Delta female employees?; Floyd Graham Memorial Record, March 20, 1987; Girls’ Preparatory School, Chattanooga, Tenn. “Kaleidoscope” 1927; Photograph: IBM Customer Executive...

Scope and Contents Thomas Edward Roach (1936-1985) was a member of the East Tennessee Historical Society and an avid genealogist. He restored two structures on the National Register of Historic Places and donated a collection of Shields family papers to the library. He wrote a series of local history articles published in the Grainger County News and the Jefferson Standard. These pieces and other writings were collected in “Gleanings from a Scrapbook” (1983). Tom started a periodical “East Tennessee Roots” and...

Scope and Contents Thomas Edward Roach (1937-1985) was a member of the East Tennessee Historical Society and an avid genealogist. He restored two structures on the National Register of Historic Places and donated a Shields family papers to the library. He wrote a number of local history articles published in the Grainger County News and the Jefferson Standard. These pieces and other writings were collected in “Gleanings from a Scrapbook” (1983). Tom started a periodical “East Tennessee Roots” and published a...

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Unidentified scrapbook believed to be a Thornburgh family scrapbook. Contains clippings, including obituary for Col. Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh and re: death of Major Thomas Thornburgh killed by Indians in Wyoming in 1879. Also contains illustrations, including fashions, poems, and other printed material. 1 vol. Poor condition.

Scope and Contents Material from Tyson Junior High School, later Tyson Middle School, Knoxville, Tenn. Collection includes: wooden gavel (made from wood from the Washburn home); scrapbooks, 1938-1939 through 1954-1958, 1976-1977 (some gaps); 3 photographs; copy negatives; Student handbooks, 1955-56 through 1961-62 (some gaps); Yearbooks, (“The General” and other titles) 1967-68 through 1982-83 (some gaps); PTA yearbooks, 1958-59, 1961-62, 1971-72; retirement program for Principal Emma Jean Huddleston, 1984;...

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United Daughters of the Confederacy, Chapter 89 (Knoxville, Tenn.), scrapbook, 1936-1943. Compiled by Ina Fields Wayland.

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United Daughters of the Confederacy, General Thomas Lanier Clingman. Chapter #2119, scrapbook, 1953-61.

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United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) scrapbook with newspaper clippings, ca. 1870s-1930s. Mostly local interest, Confederate veterans, decoration days, Civil War stories. Gift of Mrs. Amanda White McTeer.

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University of Tennessee Singers Scrapbooks, 1963-1965; 1966-1968. Donated by Margaret Holmes in honor of Alex Brandau.

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Upper East Tennessee’s Crusade for Freedom scrapbook, a public service endeavor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1950. Includes clippings, printed material, and photographs. Re: Cold War.

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Scrapbook compiled by W.H. Kephart, Knoxville, Tenn., ca. 1870s-1910s. Contains newspaper clippings (mostly about Knoxville and local citizens); ephemera; photographs; and handwritten notes. Subject index at front of volume + loose handwritten index of people pictured. Appalachian Exposition ribbon, p. 175.

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Twelve scrapbooks (in 6 boxes) of Knoxville Service Director, City Manager, and Mayor Walter W. Mynatt, 1922-1941; photographs (some copy photographs) of Knoxville, Henley Street Bridge, and the original McGhee Tyson Airport building. Includes 5 historic photographs by C. Kinzel and a color print of the Knoxville city flag; personal and political papers; small artifacts.

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Webb Scrapbook: Facts and Memories of Family (McNutt, Webb, Anderson, Woodson, Owen). From Mrs. Evelyn Goddard Kirby. Typed list [by Dr. J. C. Tumblin] re: selected highlights of the scrapbook.

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Werewolf Club of Knoxville. Scrapbooks and club history.

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William C. George scrapbooks of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) clippings, maps, photographs and publications. Three 3-ring binders. Includes: “TVA Program in text and pictures from the Architectural Forum”; clippings (1950s-1960s); navigation charts / maps; photographs from various dam projects including Wilson Dam, Pickwick, Norris, Hiwassee, Chickamauga, Watauga.

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Materials on the William J. Oliver family and business, especially re: William J. Oliver. Scrapbooks of newspapers clippings include: Oliver family; Panama Canal contracts; Appalachian Exposition; Theodore Roosevelt signature (on March 1, 1912 ‘The Lookout’ letterhead); Oliver business activities. The scrapbooks about the Panama Canal contracts were compiled by Dr. J. R. L. Hardesty and presented to William J. Oliver in 1907.

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...

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Scrapbook of photographs of Works Progress Administration (W. P. A.) projects, ca. 1935-1943. Compiled by Nell S. Hendrix (June 1943, Knoxville, Tenn.). Snapshots include W. P. A. projects such as roads, bridges, buildings, football stadium in Bristol, Tenn. Detailed captions on back of pictures.

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Scrapbook of Mrs. Nelle Potts Cates (or Cate) (1901-1980) made the scrapbook during World War I, using her father's ledger to make her scrapbook. Her father, A. J. Potts, was tax assessor for Knoxville and some of the ledger pages can be seen, ca. 1906. Donor and her sister, Jean Cates of Cleveland, Tenn., are the daughters of Mrs. Cates. Transferred from ETHS. Gift of Mrs. William C. Hunter.

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World War II Scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Knoxville and East Tenn. servicemen and women. Compiled by Mrs. B. T. Donaldson, mother of the donor.

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Two scrapbooks of clippings ‘from all over’ re: World War II. Probably received via East Tenn. Historical Society.

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Scrapbook of newspaper and other clippings about the Yorktown sesquicentennial celebration in 1931. Compiled by Mrs. Benjamin B. Cates, National Society of the Colonial Dames.