Photographs

Scope and Contents Records documenting the history of the public library from the founding of Lawson McGhee Library in 1886. Record include director’s records, board minutes of the library board, personnel, departmental records and records of branches; Lawson McGhee Library centennial material, 1986 (including scrapbook with photographs and clippings; videotape with LML centennial, public service announcements, local talk show interviews, and ‘Good Morning, America’ clip; audio cassette tape includes radio...

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Pvt. Francis Marion Hancock, County. C, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, U.S.A. (ca. 1835 S.C. to June 23, 1864 Gallatin Tenn..) Lived in Kodak (Henry’s Crossroads, Sevier County, Tenn. 1860

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QSPC 2004.001a: American Limestone, Holston Quarry. 1953. B&W 16x20” unmounted photographic print. Damage at left. Shows conveyor belt leading out of quarry. QSPC 2004.001b: ‘A Gift from Floyd Brogden. A picture of the Old Holston Quarry at Mascot, Tenn.’ Color. 13x17” mounted on 16x20 board. Shows steam shovel(?) in operation.

Scope and Contents SPC 2017.014.001 R. L. Harris Road Machinery display, Chilhowee Park (1920s). Man at right in white shirt in background is business founder Robert Luck Harris.8x10: mounted, sepia. 1 pc. SPC 2017.014.002 Jerry Wilson, vice president of R. L. Harris, Inc., delivers a CAT D7 road grader to Knoxville Mayor Jack Dance. (4-10-1959). 8x10” sepia 1 pc. SPC 2017.014.003 Estes Kefauver (2nd from right) and Bill Harris, Sr. (right) in front of airplane, probably at McGhee Tyson Airport on a campaign...

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Papers by and about Ray H. Jenkins and his role in the Army McCarthy Hearings (1954); the Col. John Nickerson court martial (1957); and Republican politics. Also includes photographs, editorial cartoons, magazine articles, clippings and Ray H. Jenkins’ speeches. There is a J. Edgar Hoover autograph on a Nov. 29, 1954 letter (folder 16).

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Rayl School. Exterior and children with slide. B&W approx. 8 x 10”.

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Three copies of same item. 8x10” B&W photographic copy of etching/lithograph of “Rebel Charge on Fort Sanders, Nov. 29, 1863.” ‘Taken from a sketch made at the time by U.H. Buchtel, Co. H, 104th U.V.I.’

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David Crockett Born at Limestone Aug. 17, 1786. McCrary & Branson. Reproduction of drawing of Davy Crockett. On back: McCrary & Branson Photograph & Portrait Artists. No. 130 Gay St. Knoxville, Tenn. 4.25 x 6.5” 1 pc.

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Residence of James M. Meek, ca. 1880. 218 Temple Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn.

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Residences and streets in Knoxville, Tenn. 1919. B&W 8x10” copy photographs.

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SPC 2009.006.001 Rev. Mrs. V.R. Robinson, Evangelist, Newport, Tenn. SPC 2009.006.002 unidentified building SPC 2009.006.003 unidentified man SPC 2009.006.004 unidentified woman SPC 2009.006.005, 006, and 007 single portraits of unidentified women SPC 2009.004 and 007 have a note on the back:’ photo found during demolition of Black church and school in Scuffle Town, Hots Springs, N.C., during the 1970s.’

Scope and Contents 35 documents dating from 1801-1929, most re: Robert B. Reynolds, Knoxville. Includes : correspondence to Churchwell & Reynolds; correspondence to and/or from ___ Wallace, Wm. Gammon, Benjamin Crawford, L. P. Roberts, David Patterson, Jacob Rogers & Sons, Henry Stanton, J. P. Evans, Arthur R. Crozier, P. D. Gates, J. C. Ramsey, F. L. Reynolds, Mrs. R. B. Reynolds, R. R. Pate, George Rupert Reynolds; politics; deeds; military papers (R. B. Reynolds served as a Paymaster during the...

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Rheatown Sunday School. October 4, 1914. H. F. Rogers (Boogers?), Supt. The man labeled ‘Grandpa’ is R. N. McAdams. 1 pc. Sepia. 8x6” print mounted on board.

Scope and Contents 1998 Correspondence with Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York City, re: plans of Richard Upjohn (1802-1878) for a church for Rev. J. L. Gray at Four Mile Point, Tenn. Possibly St. Andrews Episcopal Chapel located at Riverside Plantation (home of Margaret McGhee Niles) on the Little Tennessee River, at McGhee, Tenn. Includes four slides and two 8x10” B&W photographs from Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Also, related correspondence; American...

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Printed on board front: “Large family groups and pictures of residences a specialty.” and “W. E. Singleton, Photographer, 257 Gay St., Knoxville, Tenn.” Written on back: “ Ridgedale “Sulphur Springs” Showing hotel from the east side. Coal Creek Sept 9th, 1892”

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Ritter family photographs; Boyd Eward Ritter, Jr. (1932-2001); Boyd Edward Ritter, Sr. (1895-1952) Grainger County, Tenn., and Sullivan County, Tenn.

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Riverdale Consolidated School exterior erected 1911. Knox County, Tenn. “This school takes the place of Mount Vernon, Whortleberry, and old Riverdale.” sepia 8x 10”.

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5 photograph albums of photographs of Great Smoky Mountains and Smoky Mountains Hiking Club (all in one box); 2nd box has one album of US Bicentennial postage stamps, 2 albums of postcards (most of mountains); album of photographs re: ETHS and related events. Most photographs taken by Robert Cook (Bob). Extra gift of photographs added 6/98. + last day cover from Baum’s Home of Flowers (June 30, 1942). (Books and ephemera also recd.; added to collection)

Scope and Contents The Robert L. Foust Photograph Collection contains b&w photographs of cityscapes, vistas and aerial views of Knoxville, in addition to newsworthy events, portraits of historical figures, and framed signatures. Dates for the material range from 1844 September 30 to 1919. . Identifications are housed with associated photograph(s). Box 3 contains 4 enlargements of Aerial view of Knoxville, 1919; Daniel Webster and H. Clay autographs; Treasurers of the United States from 1795-1915. Robert L....

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Roger A. Daley Collection of photographs and newspapers. He worked for Scripps Howard and Knoxville News Sentinel. He was president of Knoxville Downtown Association in 1970s. Photographs include downtown Knoxville, TVA, Great Smoky Mountains.

Scope and Contents Roger H. Howell photographs and slides: color slides taken by Roger Howell ca. 1938 in the Great Smoky Mountains and Copper Hill (91 slides) + 41 slides of England and Charleston from Alice Howell; 69 b&w photographs (4"x6” or smaller), most by Roger Howell in the Great Smoky Mountains, ca. 1938-1941 (one photograph by Marion Hoss and one by David West Barber); 3 b&w printed cards (UT ‘View of the University, 1837.’ Bartlett Hall at Maryville College, and Willard House). Roger...

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SPC 2010.005.001 John Cruze Galvanized Iron & Tin Work. 419 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn. Faded & torn from backing. 7.5 x 5.75”. SPC 2010.005.002 G. W. Romines in [streetcar] conductor uniform. Blake Studio, Knoxville, Tenn. Sepia; postcard backing. About 3x5”. SPC 2010.005.003 Howard & Ruth [Romines?]. Sepia; postcard backing. About 3x5”. SPC 2010.005.004 Unidentified group, probably a school group. Holding sign: 1927 Sept. 7. Sepia, 8 x 10”.

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Snapshots of Ronald Reagan at Market Square (1980)

Scope and Contents Records of the Rotary Club of Knoxville (commonly called the “Downtown Rotary Club”) Includes: Box 1 former member files & scholarship receipts: 2 former president files and former member files; 3 former member files; 4 old directories and photographs; 5 History of Knoxville Club, pt. 1; 6 History of Knoxville Club, pt. 2; 7 Roll Books, early 1960s-late 1980s; 8 minutes of the Board of Directors, 1942-1994; 9 Rotary International History 50 Years of Service, Knox. minutes 1970s-1980s; 10...

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Ruby Bird, Knoxville High School drama teacher. Collection includes yearbooks, photographs, theatre programs, and plaques from the estate of Miss Ruby Bird. Mostly Knoxville High School and Austin East High School. Includes photograph of student John Cullum.

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“Ruins of Parson Brownlow’s printing office Jonesboro, Tenn.” (caption on back of mounted photograph. Seller said date was 1906. Unidentified church in background. Approx. 3.25” square sepia photograph on 5” square mount.

Scope and Contents Russell Briscoe Cartoons and Drawings from World War I and later. 44 cartoons on 10 numbered sheets, all signed W. R. Briscoe ‘19. Two cartoons on one unnumbered sheet. Four “Lazy Luke” cartoons of five panels each, each signed Briscoe (printed?) Six cartoons of German soldiers. One small pocket notebook of sketches of fellow marines from the 401st Battalion of the United States Marines, “assembled Oct. 29, 1918 to take part in the world war against the HUN.” Humorous sketches of fellow...

Scope and Contents The Russell Harrison Photograph Collection contains a variety of street views, vistas, and cityscapes of Knoxville, Tennessee in addition to single and group portraits, civic clubs, businesses, factories, mills, and residences. Harrison was a talented photographer and a serious collector of images of older photographs. Russell Harrison (1888-1968) was a commercial artist employed by Capper Engraving Company. He donated these photographs to the public library. In his later years he lived in...

Scope and Contents Includes scrapbook of Russell W. Hanlon, Sr. (1894-1963), on Knoxville Automobile Club, Great Smoky Mountains, tourism, ca. 1920s-mid-1930s which includes information on Great Smoky Mountain Industries. Collection also includes photographs (Hanlon and McCoy families, David C. Chapman, Elkmont, Tenn., Gatlinburg, Knoxville, work by William J. McCoy, etc.); postcards; Knoxville High School Voice, 1912 and 1913; stamps; manuscripts material, including W.G. Brownlow and Oliver Temple/ Scotia...

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Scrapbook of Miss Ruth Davis, ca. 1912-1914. Includes snapshots, programs, calling cards, autographs, etc. Mostly about Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Va., and a few Knoxville items.