Christmas cards

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Nine cards illustrated by Bill Dyer depicting his family during Christmas.

Scope and Contents Carroll King's Club: poster, drawings, and photographs. Scope: Print by Jim Wyatt of Carroll King's bar/restaurant at 1001 South Gay Street. Folder also includes a 16 x 20 color drawing (cartoon) of some of the entertainers (with their signatures) or (people who were regular customers?): Jonathan Edwards, Jene Jones, John Richards, Joe Meibes, Marcia Henderson, Tommy Legate, and Kit Kimbell (no artist, no date); a caricature of Ellis Mayes and Carroll King on a Christmas card; an original...

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Christmas greeting card from Harry T. Burn to his mother Febb Burn, ca 1930. Sent from Rockwood which dates the card between 1923 and 1931.

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June 10, 1982, letter from Edith Adams Asbury, New York, N. Y., to Alice Howell. TL 1 p. + photograph stapled to upper corner. Re: her career as a reporter for the New York Times. + 1982 Christmas card from Asbury to Howell; May 1982 edition of the “Silurian News”; Knoxville News-Sentinel clipping on Arnold Newman by Edith Adams Asbury, June 7, (1991?); November 2, 1992, letter from Alice Howell to Steve Cotham, McClung Collection, re: gift of material.

Scope and Contents Diaries kept by artist Eleanor McAdoo Wiley of Knoxville, sister of artist Anna Catherine Wiley. Diaries date from 1947-1967 and include comments on weather, her personal and professional activities, notes on the progress of her paintings, notes of community interest and comments on national events. Many loose items were tucked into these volumes including: 1958 letter of condolence on the death of her sister from Estes Kefauver (in 1951 folder); correspondence; receipts; business cards;...

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H. P. Ijams Christmas Postcards. Printed from original cards designed by H. P. Ijams between 1914-1940s. Ijams Nature Center.

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Hand-made Christmas cards with original photographs. Made by Knoxville artist Christopher Terry.

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John S. Van Gilder. Christmas Card. “Is There a Santa Claus?” Text reprinted from “the editorial page of The Sun of Sept. 21, 1897.”

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Knoxville, John Somers Van Gilder, Christmas card from, dated 1930, receiver unknown. Beautiful colored etching shows an outdoor caroling for ladies out on balcony, size app. 6" x 8". Exc. cond. with fox spot on border and old glue marks on blank back.

Scope and Contents “Memoirs of Frances Hodgson Burnett” by Ada Campbell Larew (Mrs. Charles L. of Knoxville). TS 8 pp.; one cabinet card photograph of Frances Hodgson Burnett taken by H. L. Bundy, Hartford, Conn., ca. 1872. Signed on front. + typed note re: photograph by Mrs. Larew; one small Christmas card from Frances Hodgson Burnett to Ada Campbell, signed on back. ca. 1872 + note and envelope from Ada Campbell Larew; “Dearest: The Story of Frances Hodgson Burnett” by Vivian Burnett, McCall’s, May, June,...

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Knoxville, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sanford, Christmas card from, 1932, receiver unknown. Beautiful colored etching shows carriage and guests arriving for celebration, size app. 7" x 10". Exc. cond., minor toning to edges. Publisher Sanford is the father of Sanford Arboretum, hiring the Olmstead brothers to help design "Boxwood', his grounds, and is famous for ignoring much of their advice and doing it himself.

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Handwritten and typed notes made from conversations with Miss Sue Barton, Knoxville. Mentions Generals Burnside, McClellan, and Sanders; battle at Fort Sanders; Bleak House; Boyd family, etc. Also, Christmas cards with notes on the back. On an envelope accompanying the collection: “Mrs. Etta G. Coile notes by Miss Helen Galbreath conversation with Sue Barton.”