Portraits

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Memorial to officers Robert T. Saylor and William Dinwiddie re: arrest of outlaw Harvey Logan, 1915. Postcard picturing William Dinwiddie. Ca. 1914 newspaper clipping re: death of Dinwiddie.

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....

Scope and Contents Twenty-three Civil War CVDs of men from the First Tennessee Cavalry. In an album that belonged to Lt. Col. Calvin M. Dyer--his picture was removed before the album was sold. Binding damaged. One album with clasp fastener. Index to Portraits: 1. Capt. Elbert J. Cannon 2. Lt. Col. Calvin M. Dyer (photograph removed from album) 3. Lt. John Roberts 4. Lt. John N. Hariss [Harris?] 5. Capt. Jacob K. Lones 6. Lt. James H. Smith 7. Sargt Martin L. Peters 8. Sargt James B. Clapp 9. Corpl Nathan A....

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September 26, 1929, letter from [important Nashville woman artist] E[lla] S[ophonisba] Hergesheimer, Reading, Penn., to Mrs. [C. J.] McClung. ALS 2 pp. (1 pc.). Re: details and price of painting a portrait of Matthew McClung from a miniature.

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East Tennessee Farmers Association, 36th annual convention. Knoxville, Tenn. May 18-20, 1909. Oversize photograph.

Scope and Contents --Eight photographs of Elden Hawk and Maggie Hawk. **includes earliest known interior image of any space in the Lamar House (Auditorium Cafe circa 1911) --Discharge papers from military service (Elden Hawk) --Examination Preliminary to Muster-out of U.S. Service or Discharge (Robert H Hampton) --Letter to Elden Hawk from Joe P --Declaration for Pension for Children Under Sixteen Years of Age for Elden and Maggie Hawk’s children after both parents died --Detailed list of items...

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Five PHOTOCOPIES of photographs of: Eleanor Buffat launching SS “Knoxville City”, 1921; groups at the event; picture of the ship.

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Press release by the East Tennessee Historical Society on the results of sending the John Porter McCowan portrait to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Temperature Materials Laboratory for infrared study. The infrared camera revealed an underpainting of watermill landscape. The underpainting further supports suspicion the unsigned portrait was painted by Lloyd Branson.

Scope and Contents Fain Family material inherited by Kathleen (Kathy) Franklin Todd. Includes newspapers, record books for the Franklin Bible Class of New Providence Presbyterian Church in Maryville, Tenn., deeds and other legal documents, portraits of Eliza Ruth Moore Fain and George Alexander Fain, the scrapbook of Ollie Lee Fain Franklin (souvenir cards, birthday cards, illustrations, and Confederate States of American $20 bill pasted into back; plus unsigned watercolor), and 1904 pocket business diary of...

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Five cartes-de-visites (CDVs), circa 1880s. All taken by T.M. Schleier, Knoxville, Tenn. Margie Hayes as a child (daughter of Margaret Lewis and Judge Henry Hayes, Arkansas) 2 pcs.; Isabella McKenzie (Margie’s nurse when her mother died) 1 pc.; Mr. Thomas Lewis (Margie’s uncle) 1 pc.; Lizzie Lewis (Margie’s aunt) 1 pc.

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Framed photograph of Amelia Gillespie Fain, 1794-1864; Framed photograph of John Fain, 1778-1852 (gift of Mary N. Fain)

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Framed photograph of Mrs. G. W. Ross (1827-1915) and funeral ribbon of G. W. Ros (1891) (photographs, artifacts)

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Frank L. Youse portrait

Front: Black-and-white portrait of Frank L. Youse at Camp Poland. Man seated in chair in front of tent.

Back: Handwritten inscription “Compliments of Frank L. Youse to Katherine Kern Aug. 6, 1898. Knoxville Tenn. “Camp Life”

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Full-length portrait of unidentified standing man, holding a hat and umbrella (ca.. 1890). “East Tenn. Photo Car, M. F. Timmerman, Manager.” 1 pc. Sepia About 4 x 5.5” on 4.25 x 6.5” mat.

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Gem sized tintype of Silas Whaley, Sevier County, Tenn. 1885-1901. 3/4” x 1” In small cut matte with pencil label. Seller identifies Silas as the son of John B. and Olive Theodocia (Bradley) Whaley. 1 tintype in matte.

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SPC 2014-012-001 Olivia Maxwell Hamilton Smith, 1851-1911. Tintype. SPC 2014-012-002 Margaret Elizabeth Maxwell Hamilton. (sepia print on cardboard backing).

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Helen Turner at Rugby, Tenn. Ca. late 1940s-1950s. B&W snapshot

Scope and Contents Tintype and 5x7” copy photograph of Christopher Columbus Hitch (8-23-1847 to 2-8-1900); Lula Mackie (Brakebill & McCoy photographers); Herbert Taylor Hitch, Sr. (4-13-1889 to Aug. 4,1974) at desk; color snapshot of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor Hitch, Sr. (Mata Newton Hitch), ca. 1960; Margaret Angeline Taylor Dooley with her family on her 80th birthday. May 11, 1901. Knoxville. 2 copies (5x7 and 8x10) (+ 1967 copy negative) ID sheet; 80th birthday celebration of Margaret Angeline Taylor...

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Holbrook Normal College class officers, 1900. Eight individual portraits, single mat with identifications listed below each photo.

Scope and Contents Photograph album (worn red velvet with decorative element on cover with the word ‘Portraits', fastener broken, some torn pages). 19 photographs. Inscription on flyleaf “For Margie From Papa and Mama Christmas 1893". A second inscription: ”For May From Auntie June 28, 1923”. Some pages have handwritten labels but no photographs. The identified photographs: ‘Hoods in Knoxville. May 17, 1902. Brakebill & McCoy; Uncle Will Hood’s little grandson (MD); “Mrs. Parsley his wife who is dead”;...

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1917 family portrait of Floyd Huckaby (1891-1970), Dosha Mae Belle Wilson Huckaby (1896-1917), and Iva Maebell Huckaby (1914-1986). Crayon art, color-tinted photograph. Letter from donor outlining the family history included in folder. Floyd Huckaby worked for L&N Railroad and lived at 2309 Highland Avenue in Fort Sanders. All three are interred at Woodlawn Cemetery.

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SPC 2013.005 Hugh Lawson McClung. Killed during the Civil War (15 February 1862). Taken by Knaffl & Bro., Knoxville, Tenn. Image are 4x5.75” mounted on card.

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SV 2003.006.001 Stereoview photograph of James Calvin Dwyer (born 1858) and Family. He moved to East Tennessee in 1895 to work with the Orphans Industrial School and Home. 1 pc.

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Photograph album of James Robinson Ogden, who came to Knoxville with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War, Leather 5x6” album containing mostly Civil War era CDVs (cartes-de-visite). 22 photographs. Subjects include: John Keyes, view of Knoxville(?), [General Ambrose] Burnside, General George Stoneman, James R. Mitchell, H.C. Squire(?), W. Chamberlain, Henry Chester, E.C. Ruggles.

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Black-and-white photographs by Jane Gray Buchanan taken during travels throughout the world. Includes four articles about the artist and her husband, Joel Buchanan.

Locations include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Florida, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Massachusetts, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Tennessee, and Utah.

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Jean Fulton (portrait, sepia photograph) + family records; 1 photograph portrait (mounted on board) (Knaffl & Brakebill, Knoxville).

Scope and Contents 1 - Photograph of Phipps King [1899-1902] (boy with blond hair and big collar 1 - Photograph of Samuel Lee King Jr. [1895-1959] (boy with curly hair) 1 - Photograph of John Goodson King [1903-1973] (boy with cane, later husband of Nell Jansen King) 1 - Photograph of Annie Phipps King, aged 18 [1874, Rotherwood-1966] 2 - Photographs of Annie Phipps King, seated portraits 1 - King family crest 1 - Phipps family crest 1 - McKinney family crest 1 - Campbell-Rhea family crest 1 - Lanier crest 1 -...

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John Z.C. Thomas at Hartsville Hearings, Courthouse, Nashville, Tenn. On 2nd day of limited appearance. Late October 1975. Photograph from The Tennessean. B&W 8x10” + 120 copy neg.

Scope and Contents Jena Glenn Waller, Hopkinsville, Ky.; Ed Pearce (in uniform), Indianapolis, IN; R. deMoody (?). Lexington, Ky., October 1890; 3 young men “Three of a Kind” Alling (?), Milray, Graham. June 13, 1894; young woman, ? Copeland, Louisville, Ky.; Lizzie Williamson and Dudley (woman and child), Lexington, Ky.; Morris Willis and Elizabeth Willis (children), Lexington, Ky.; Libbie Wilson (young woman in hood and cape with cross), Lexington, Ky.; Ben LaBree, Louisville, Ky., October 12, 1896; young...

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Knox County Attorneys General (removed from frames which were in poor condition and discarded, all mounted on heavy board, some by Branson Studio): 3 with no ID, C. M. Alexander, Ebenezer Alexander, William E. Anderson, Jno. M. Fleming, G. McHenderson, Robert B. Reynolds (?), D. K. Young. In 10 folders.