East Tennessee

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35 mm color slides of downtown Knoxville and East Tenn in the 1960s and 1970s taken by Ronald Sabin.

Scope and Contents An 1866 listing of Union soldiers applying for a certificate of disability in East Tennessee. Included in the description is the type of wound or malady, where they were discharged, and occasionally the battle where the injury occurred. An example entry, "May 7th 1866 – Capt. David Fry – Co. F 2nd Tenn Regt Mounted Inft – Discharged Annapolis Md 27th March 1865 – disease wound – Pension total – probably permanent – Residence Greeneville Tenn". Note – Capt. David Fry arranged the November...

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Bill Melton, “Tobacco Road” [a memoir of growing tobacco in East Tennessee in the mid-twentieth century].

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Broadside: "East Tennessee Leaps Into Action as $40,000,000 Project Become Reality: Senator Norris Lauded as Father of Valley Plan" (mentions Cove Creek Dam)

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Col. David Fry Papers (1866-1913); in addition to original manuscript concerning David Fry and his widow Alice Fry, photocopies only of pages from a memorandum book (or books) 19 sheets (38 pages).

Scope and Contents Over 200 b&w photographs taken by Don Dudenbostel. Most are 11"x14” or 8"x10” b&w photographs. Selected images were used in East Tennessee Historical Society feature exhibit “Vanishing Appalachia,” March 1-June 20, 2010 (and later for a traveling exhibit). Don Dudenbostel’s photographs made in East Tennessee and Southern Appalachia include portraits as well as images dealing with roadside culture, moonshining, cock fighting, the Ku Klux Klan, serpent handling as a religious practice....

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Copy negatives of photographs of steamboats from the 1860s-1920s which plied the Tennessee River in East Tennessee

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“Early Printing in East Tennessee, 1791-1830” by Frances Coykendall. No date. TS.

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Tri-fold program from the East Tennessee Farmers Convention May 21-22,1895 and First Annual Convention of the East Tennessee Dairy Association at the Custom House, Knoxville Tenn.

Scope and Contents December 16, 1863, letter from Edward Kitchell (98th Ill. Vols., Union Cavalry), Camp near Charleston, Tenn., to My Dear Wife (Mrs. Hattie Kitchell, Olney, Illinois. ALS 8 pp. + envelope with stamp. Also, typed photocopy of transcription and photocopy of CDV of Edward Kitchell. Re: Kitchell’s military life. Mentions Chattanooga, Knoxville, Murphy N. C., General Bragg, General Grant, General Sherman, ‘East Tennessee is devastated’, suffering of women and children, ‘they will sacrifice...

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Arranged by place and/or subject. Finding Aid available. (375 postcards in archival sleeves)

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Materials related to zinc mines in East Tennessee, includes photographs, slides, business records, maps, scholarly papers, artifacts, and ore samples.

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Invitation to 2019 Annual East Tennessee Business Hall of Fame Dinner held at the Knoxville (Tenn.) Convention Center on April 4, 2019. The event raised funds for Junior Achievement of East Tennessee, Inc. and honored Bill and Crissy Haslam. The event marked the 30 years of the Business Hall of Fame.

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James C. Sullivan (1844-1913) Memoir of an Irish American with extensive information about his career as a contractor in railroad construction. Born Boston of immigrant parents; died in Knoxville. Considerable railroad contract work all over the country, a good portion of it in East Tennessee and the South.

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Scrapbooks of clippings about weather events from the Knoxville News Sentinel and Knoxville Journal compiled by Jake Huffaker.

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Hand drawn and hand colored map of East Tennessee, drawn by Lt. Sam (Samuel) B. (Bell) Palmer, Knoxville, August 1863. Confederate Flag at right. 15 x 9.5” 1 pc.

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Arranged by place and/or subject. Finding Aid available. (1,831 postcards in archival sleeves)

Scope and Contents 1. Catherine Wiley slide show (51 slides, 3 sheets) 2. Catherine Wiley (1962 slides of paintings) 3. Catherine Wiley (June 1986 slides of paintings) (pre-restoration slides) 4. Knoxville and East Tennessee Artists (slide show) (76 slides) (list, some slides missing) 5. Knoxville Museum of Art exhibit, “A Gilded Age, Knoxville Artists, 1875-1925” SC co-curator, David Babelay, took slides with permission of KMA Jan. 1996 as exhibit closed 6. Copy slides of paintings from the Tennessee State...

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“Survey Embry’s Iron-Works on the Holston River, East Tennessee ... as a Site for a National Armory;” “Survey of the Falls of Emory’s River, East Tennessee ... as a Site for a National Armory” Removed by Military Affairs Report to the U.S. Senate, 1827.

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Will Parham photographs of Blount County (6 folders), East Tennessee and North Carolina. Also includes some non-photograph material and negatives. Will E. Parham (1860-1946) was a woolen mill operator, a state legislator, and chairman of the Blount County Court for many years. He was considered “the Blount County historian” before such an office existed officially and spent many years researching the history and the family history of Blount County.