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East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Posters. “Streetcar City: Knoxville, 1876-1947” an ETHS exhibition, 1984

 Collection
Identifier: Q Ephemera 1984.002
Scope and Contents

Posters. “Streetcar City: Knoxville, 1876-1947” and East Tennessee Historical Society exhibition, 1984

Dates: 1984

Resolutions and recommendations for Miss Mamie Winstead for Record Clerk of the Knox County Quarterly Court

 Collection
Identifier: MM.2019.037
Scope and Contents

Resolutions and recommendations for Miss Mamie Winstead for Record Clerk of the Knox County Quarterly Court. Written by Knoxville Business & Professional Women’s Club, The East Tennessee Historical Society, and Holston Division, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, March 17, 1941.

Dates: 1941

Thomas F. Gailor letters, 1899, 1934.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.1981.180
Scope and Contents

October 10, 1899, letter from Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, Sewanee, Tenn., to Right Rev. W. C. Doane, Albany, N. Y. LS 1 p. Gives canonical consent to the consecration of Rev. William Loyall as Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese of West Virginia. March 4, 1934, letter from Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop’s House, Diocese of Tennessee, to Mary U. Rothrock, Knoxville, Tenn. ALS 1 p. Gives up membership in the East Tennessee Historical Society.

Dates: 1899; 1934

“Two Centuries of Music in Knoxville” by Jack Neely, 1996.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.1997.019
Scope and Contents

“Two Centuries of Music in Knoxville” by Jack Neely, a walking tour sponsored by the East Tennessee Historical Society. October 8, 1996. TS photocopy 7 pp.

Dates: 1996

W. G. McAdoo petition, ca. 1880’s.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.1981.152
Scope and Contents

Ca. 1880’s petition of W. G. McAdoo, president of the East Tennessee Historical Society, to the Knox County Court re: use of room in courthouse basement for the Society’s collection. ADS 1 p.

Dates: 1880-1890

Wm. G. McAdoo, Sr., letters, 1881, 1891.

 Collection
Identifier: MM.1981.191
Scope and Contents

May 20, 1888, letter from (Wm. G. McAdoo, Sr.), Knoxville, to Col. James H. Grant. AL 2 pp. (incomplete). Re: McAdoo is president of the East Tennessee Historical Society, requests Grant to write a chronicle of his life and memories. June 13, 1891, letter from Wm. G. McAdoo, Knoxville, to Col. James Hamilton Grant. ALS 2 pp. Asks questions about Lemuel P. Montgomery and family.

Dates: 1881, 1891