East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS)

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128 Years of Market Square Business: 1880-2008, compiled by Forrest Conklin for the East Tennessee Historical Society.

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Notes for the chapter on local government published in the “Heart of the Valley”

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Alice Lynn Howell Collection. Includes genealogy and notes for biography on Dr. William Hunt. 2 photograph albums of snapshots of ETHS, McClung Collection events + photograph albums including historic family photographs + 1 box of her book “Adventures of a Nineteenth Century Medic [William Hunt]

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Coal Creek Watershed Foundation. East Tennessee Historical Society award nomination application, March 2002. Printed pages (some from website) + sections of newspaper.

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“ Get Down...Town” Downtown [Knoxville] Revitalization poster [ca. 2000]. League of Women Voters, City People, K2K, Knox Heritage, Nine Counties - One Vision, East Tennessee Historical Society. 3 copies. 14 x 19.”

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East Tennessean of the Year, a award from the East Tennessee Historical Society honoring East Tennesseans who have made an outstanding contribution to the East Tennessee region Recipients include: Bill Haslam (2011) , Jack Hanna (2014), Roy Kramer (2016), Autry O. V. (Pete) Debusk (2017), Natalie L. Haslam (2018). The collection includes documentation about the winners of the award and small artifacts from the events.

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Program from the East Tennessee Historical Society Gala, November 11, 1992. Signed by Honored Guests: Lamar Alexander, Howard Baker Jr., Jim Clayton, Wilma Dykeman, General Bruce K. Holloway, John Rice Irwin, John Majors, Lindsey Nelson, Pat Head Summitt. Cover + insert.

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Some photographs from ETHS publications, mostly Tennessee Ancestors

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Box 1 East Tennessee Historical Society correspondence (1934-1975); Folmsbee correspondence on ETHS Publications; miscellaneous files Box 2 East Tennessee Historical Society financial information (1929-1969); East Tennessee Historical Society meeting notes (1958-1978) Box 3  East Tennessee Historical Society correspondence (1981-1985)

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East Tennessee History Day (2016) Sponsored by the University of Tennessee History Department and the East Tennessee Historical Society

Scope and Contents Papers found by G. Allan Yeomans of Andover Square Books in the purchased remaining personal library of Elizabeth Skaggs Bowman, from the Bowman estate. December 1980. Includes: 1957 photograph of the Hilderbrand House in Polk County, Tenn.; photograph of unidentified man; February 20, 1956, letter from Edith Scott to Mrs. E. L. Bowman re: Bowman’s writing about Ramsey House and the Ramsey family (with envelope); 1954, 1956, 1961 and 1968, East Tennessee Historical Society programs;...

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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.

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Fan letter to the East Tennessee Historical Society from Alex Williams, Morristown, Tenn. age 13. Expressed interest in history, the Heartlands series, and the upcoming Homecoming 86.

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First Families of Tennessee project sponsored by the East Tennessee Historical Society. Applicants must prove ancestry in Tennessee before the end of 1796. The project started in 1996. The collection includes over 16,500 approved application files (2022).

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The collection also includes a sample of materials related to the First Families of Tennessee project, including a blank application form, a blank certificate, Grand Reunion booklet (2 copies) and misc. papers. Artifacts include First Families of Tennessee Reunion (2016) souvenirs: a glass mug; enamel pin; license plate; t-shirt; tote bag and a souvenir fan.

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Two copies of the oversize postcard invitation to the Museum of East Tennessee History’s Night at the Museum on Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 7:00pm. The event is virtual and honors East Tennessee Historical Society’s retired executive director Cherel B. Henderson. Tickets for ETHS Members are $75; General Public $100 with proceeds benefitting ETHS.

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Photographs of the 2014 ETHS presentation ceremony for Jack Hanna's East Tennessean of the Year award.

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May 20, 1982, letter from John (Johnny) Majors, head football coach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to Charles F. Bryan, Jr., director, East Tennessee Historical Society. TLS 1 p. Sending in membership to the Society.

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Knoxville Streetcar City: Photographs from 1984 Exhibit (East Tennessee Historical Society) Includes photograph of the dance pavilion at Fountain City

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Knoxville Swiss-American Exhibit Photographs (East Tennessee Historical Society)

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Informational pamphlet about the weather kiosk located in downtown Knoxville, Tenn. Pamphlet designed and published by the East Tennessee Historical Society. Includes facts and images about the weather kiosk.

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8 x 10” color photograph of East Tennessee Historical Society Director Cherel Henderson, Tennessee’s First Lady Crissy Haslam (wife of Governor Bill Haslam), and Steve Cotham, Manager of the McClung Historical Collection, Luncheon at the Governor’s residence, Nashville, Tenn. on June 6, 2012. Signed by Crissy Haslam. 1 pc.

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Manuscript for Valley So Wild by Carson and Alberta Brewer and cover art for Terror of Tellico Plains by Ray Jenkins. Published by East Tennessee Historical Society.

Scope and Contents Mary Utopia Rothrock (1890-1976) papers. Weeded by Miss Rothrock before donation. Subject divisions include: Biographical material; library; speeches, writings and publishing; history textbooks; historical research; Tennessee Historical Commission; historic preservation; McClung Collection; East Tennessee Historical Society; other historical societies; hereditary societies and groups; Rothrock genealogy; correspondence and papers; diaries and calendars; person papers--property holdings,...

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Pictures of staff at East Tennessee History Center between the years 1980-2018. Photo ID’s done by McClung Staff.

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“Memoirs of Ray H. Jenkins.” Chapters 1-3, by Ray H. Jenkins. Unedited version. Typescript, (Photocopy) Later edited and published by the East Tennessee Historical Society as Terror of Tellico Plains.

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Nomination packet for 2017 Award of Distinction winner: Major William A. McTeer Camp No. 39. Awards of Distinction are given as part of the East Tennessee Historical Society’s yearly Awards of Excellence.

Includes CD of video highlights from the Readmission Day 2016 at Old Gray Cemetery and souvenir program.

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Nomination packet for 2017 Community History Award winners: Marcia Nelson (Pigeon Forge Public Library Directory) & Veta King (Pigeon Forge Public Library Staff Historian). Community History Awards given as part of the East Tennessee Historical Society’s yearly Awards of Excellence.

Includes DVD “Pigeon Forge Public Library Oral History Series - 2015 - Mr. Don Huskey - Pigeon Forge Memories DVD” and CD “Cornfields to Condos”

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Family history of Phillip Edward Fulmer, Sr. researched and arranged by Dr. George K. Schweitzer and Ann Blomquist for Fulmer’s 2019 East Tennessean of the Year award. Mr. Fulmer is the University of Tennessee’s Athletic Director and former football coach for the Vols.

The East Tennessean of the Year award is selected yearly by the Board of Directors of the East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS).