Receipts

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Letters to J.A. and T.E. Barr (Arcadia, Tenn.) from J.W. Huff (Loudon, Tenn.) requesting land rents on Addie Anderson's inherited land of John Anderson (Sullivan County, Tenn.) Includes several receipts and postal receipt signed by postmaster Thos. [Thomas] Fa

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Mix of family correspondence, work papers, receipts, cards, newspaper articles, ephemera spanning 1841-1954.

Scope and Contents Papers of the family of Pierre Francois Buffat, his wife Sylvie Louise Tauxe Buffat, their children and relatives, who came from Switzerland to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849. Pierre F. Buffat owned a farm at Spring Place in Knox County, Tenn. He ran a mill starting in 1861, and his son Alfred Buffat joined the business in 1865. Other family names included in the correspondence include: Bolli, Chavannes, Porta, Esperandieu, Sterchi, Truan, and Tauxe. Many of the letters were written in French,...

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Collection of tax and other receipts Henry Hubbs, Knoxville, 1940s-1960s.

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Receipt from Eagle Tavern, Batavia for Mr. Van Deventer for $4.62 on January 26, 1833. Image of Eagle Tavern at top.

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Bill and receipt for services rendered by George Farragut as Inspector of Arms and Keeper of Magazine and Public Store at Knoxville. October 1, 1795 - October 1, 1796. Received $180.00 from David Henley, War Department. October 4, 1796. ADS 1 pc.

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Room receipt for Mrs. Lily Knightley of Detroit, Michigan for room at Hotel Andrew Johnson. Receipt number 18414 dated July 23, 1951 for a cost of $4. Marked PAID.

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September 27, 1796, receipt from Jessee Brentley, Knoxville, to David Henley for $2.00 received for attending and moving Michael Maloney, a wounded militia man under the command of Lt. Lovely at Tellico. ADS 1 p.

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November 7, 1733, receipt from John Carter to John Dupree. ADS 1 pc. (Mounted). Penciled note at bottom of mounting: A.D.S. of “Secretary” John Carter of “Corotman” and “Shirley,” oldest son of “King” Robert Carter of “Corotman.”

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The John E. Lutz Business Papers consist of letters and receipts kept while managing his Knoxville-based shoe and hat business, J. E. Lutz & Co. from 1886-1895.

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August 4, 1847, receipt from Joseph Estabrook (President of East Tennessee University) to D. A. Deaderick, treasurer. For $675 salary of past session and other expenses. ADS 11 pc.

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Receipt to J.B.G. Kinsloe for ‘one double barrelled shotgun, no. 953, valued at $15, and deposited in the Ordnance Office for the use of the Confederate Army service.’ P.M. McClung, Ordnance Officer, by John E. Heling? (Delius?) ADS 1 pc. (tape at lower right). J.B.G. Kinsloe was editor of a Knoxville newspaper during the Civil War, in business with W.G. Brownlow.

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Knoxville business letterheads, old bills and receipts, ca. 1890s.

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Lamar House Hotel, Knoxville, Tenn. receipt to Mrs. Blair(?) for boarding self and sister 3/4 days. $4.50. Signed by J.C. Flanders, proprietor, Lamar House. DS 1 pc. September 21, 1871.

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Mae Lynn Collection: includes photographs, receipts, postcards, stampless entires/covers, stamps, and ephemera. Listing with collection. + scrapbook of Spanish-American War clippings. Photographs include: Mae Lynn; Smith School in Kodak, 1902; Cherokee Knitting Mills on Baxter Avenue, 1925; Beech Springs School, 1912-1915; Grey Eagle steamboat; Aluminum Company of America WWII snapshot.

Scope and Contents The collection contains photographs, tintypes, a carte de visite album, a hand-stitched, woven alphabetical organizer, and various financial records including receipts, promissory notes, court judgements, and ledger scraps. Some of the photographs are identified, including a photograph of Rogersville Female Academy’s faculty and student body, and one of students and their instructor holding musical instruments. Another photograph depicts the Shenandoah Normal College baseball team. Most of...

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Handwritten receipt on 3 1/4” x 8” piece of paper. “Knoxville 26 March 1797 Received of David Henley Agt. War Sixty seven Cents for bringing up a Trunk and Bedstead of [...] from Phila. to Knox. John Kelly” on reverse “No. 16 John Kelly Rec’d 67 Cents bringing a Trunk & bedstead from Tellico to Knoxville 67 Cents”

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Receipt from Dr. Isaac Wright (author of Wright’s Family Medicine; Knoxville physician) for payment of medical fees due from the estate of Governor Joseph McMinn, deceased. Note by [Dr.] James King of Knoxville saying the fees charged were reasonable. Signed twice by Dr. Wright. 1826. ADS 1 pc. (2 pp.).

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Receipts, Knox County, Alex (Elick) Beets, 1915-1930, for road work, taxes, debt, etc.

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Strawberry Plains Presbyterian Church (Shunem Church) History by Daniel Meek, ca. 1850. Lists names of ministers and locations of churches. 6 pp. (+ pencil notes taken from the history, 3 pp.). + 1857 ‘receipts’ for varnish, blackberry wine, colouring black, and curing rheumatic pains. 1 p.

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June 24, 1797, receipt from Thomas Blount to David Allison for bills drawn by Allison on Captain John Cooper at Paris. ADS 1 pc. (brittle). (To: “Thomas Blount, Attorney in fact for Mrs. Mary Farmer, late of Crutchfriar(?), London & agent for her daughters.”)

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September 1, 1801 receipt to Robert Hays, Marshall for District of West Tennessee, from W.P. Anderson. ADS 1 p. For Anderson’s fee as attorney.

Scope and Contents Pension records for veterans and widows of War of 1812 soldiers on forms of the Pension Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC. Dated 1872. 46 pcs. Soldiers were from Middle Tennessee counties. These records were found in the attic of the old portion (1874) of the Custom House during renovation work, summer 1980. Also: Sept. 1886 receipts from Robert L. Taylor, U.S. Pension Agent at Knoxville, to different recipients for varying amounts (from different states). Printed forms,...

Scope and Contents Washington Co., Fall Branch, Tenn., 1887, Receipt for Medical services of Dr. M.F. Geralds, M.D., for services to Col. S.K.N. Patton (commander, 8th Tenn.. Vol Cav., U.S., Civil War). Recd. from son, Landon H. Patton, signed by Saml. D. Vincent. This is a receipt for medical services received on the estate of Col. Samuel Kelsey Nelson Patton, who died in late 1886. Col. Patton was a famous East Tenn. unionist and activist who served in the Tenn. legislature during and after the...

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William A. D. Pearce receipts and notes, Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn. 1849-1884. 49 pcs. Receipt to S.H. Anderson, Carter County Trustee. 1897. Re: interest on claims. Bristol, Elizabethton & North Carolina Railway stock certificate to Carter County, Tenn. 1892. 200 shares.