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Knoxville (Tenn.) -- Politics and Government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

George R. Dempster Scrapbooks.

 Collection
Identifier: PAS 0012
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks1940s-1954 (some gaps), mostly newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1940 - 1954

Hattie House letterhead (188_).

 Collection
Identifier: MM.nd.032
Scope and Contents

188_ letterhead from Hattie House, Knoxville, Tenn. Contains handwritten notes re: political meeting (the colored question; Mr. Gibson, LaVere, and Temple speaking, etc.) + paper ribbon “For Congress L. C. Houk.” On the back of the stationery there is a printed business directory of Knoxville.

Dates: 1880s

Memoirs of Lucy Mulholland Brownlee, as told to her son John Wylie Brownlee (photocopy).

 Collection
Identifier: MM.2015.025
Scope and Contents

Memoirs of Lucy Mulholland Brownlee, as told to her son John Wylie Brownlee (photocopy) + photocopies of Brownlee family history; photocopy of politically inspired newspaper “The Racketeer" (3-4-1932) (See also Historical Copy Project 2015.001)

Dates: undated

Randy Tyree for Mayor card

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2019.204
Scope and Contents

Card printed "Randy Tyree for Mayor"

Dates: undated

“The Mayors of Knoxville”

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2020.040
Scope and Contents

Brochure published for the Knoxville Bicentennial listing the portraits of the mayors of Knoxville in the City County Building with brief biographical information on each mayor. Also includes mayors without portraits.

Dates: 1996

Tommy Lowe promotional card

 Collection
Identifier: Ephemera 2020.070
Scope and Contents

Promotional card for Tommy Lowe. Front: blue with white letters “Tommy LOWE County Clerk We are working for you” Back: white with blue letters “Tennessee License Plate Prefixes (Effective January, 1983)” with list of numbers and corresponding county.

Dates: 1980s