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Interior view of (old) Saint John’s Episcopal Church, Knoxville, Tenn. Circa 1880. By J.W. Stewart, Knoxville, Tenn. Note on back: where Annie McGhee and Calvin McClung were married.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Sallie McDowell Moffett and her husband John T. (Tom) Moffett. 1832-1916. Includes letters during their courtship and during the Civil War (John T. Moffett was a Sgt. in Capt. Lynch’s Artillery, CSA). Letters include home life, family, military camp life and details of battles, some correspondence with other family members, business papers, church matters. About 450 letters. (118 folders in 3 boxes). Box 4 has family photographs, including Photograph of John Thomas...

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Daguerreotype of Sam Houston taken by S. K. Nicholson in his rooms in Hartford, CT in 1846. In original case (leather spine of case was restored by Don Etherington in 1999).

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Photographs of Sandford Day Ironworks baseball team and parade floats

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Savage Garden photographs, Fountain City, Tenn. Ca. 1920s. + 120 mm. copy negs. (12/92)

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Savage Zinc Mine records, Jefferson County, Tenn. Includes business papers, photographs, zinc ore samples, 3 rolled maps. Mine closed in late 1996.

Scope and Contents ‘Scenes in the Mining Regions of Tenn. From original negatives by Singleton & McFarland, Photographers, 257 Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn’. List on back of photographs of ‘Groups we have taken at Briceville, Coal Creek, Fort Anderson and Camp Carnes. Number circled on back is 671: Queen City Guards on Walden’s Ridge.’ Photograph shows young men in military uniform seated and standing outdoors, holding rifles. Images area is 8.5 x6”, mounted on (damaged) printed board. 1 pc. + 4x5” copy...

Scope and Contents Schockel (photographer?). 13 B&W photographs with ID (some on postcard backing): Holston River near Jefferson City, Tenn; Camp Beacon Knob, 1912; Pinnacle Marble Quarry, Knoxville; Townsend Lumber Camp above Elkmont; Little River RR , loading logs above Elkmont; snaking logs above Elkmont; WCTU Settlement School, Hindman, Ky.; canal on s. edge of campus; near Pine Mt., Ky.; teachers at Pine Mountain Settlement School, Ky.; Ky. schoolhouse int.; “Uncle William” Pine Mt. Post Office, Ky.;...

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Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee, 1925; photographs of the Scopes (Monkey) Trial

Scope and Contents Scrapbook (partial) with 17 snapshots, labeled with handwritten note: Porter Family Summer, 1941, compiled by E. Porter. The Porter family was from Galveston, Tex.. The father was Eugene L. Porter and mother was Helen Nichols Porter. Includes: Eleanor Porter graduation’ Porter offspring; trip to Charlie’s Bunion; Ramsey Cascades; cabin in Gatlinburg. Given in memory of Eugene L. Porter. SPC 2016.007.016 Group of steps of cabin [Porter family], 1941. SPC 2016.007.017 View of Gatlinburg cabin...

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The photographs were mounted on a board and framed for display. Possibly the framed photos came from Karl Baum. Photos marked “Copyright 1915 Jas. E. Thompson” and include stamp “Thompson Photographer Knoxville”

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Seven copy photographs used in Tennessee Ancestors, vol. 7, no. 1 (1991). Includes: 2 color snapshots of the tombstones of 2 B&W copy photographs of Jacob Pile (?) and Evangeline Comfort Williams Pile(?); 3 5x7” B&W copy prints of William Walker, Mary Seaton Walker, and the William Walker house.

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Earlier photographs are family photographs; later photographs include company photographs of salesmen, C. M. McClung Co.

Scope and Contents 1: Sixth plate ambrotype of a young girl wearing a hat and bloomers, standing on a chair. Brown union case (broken hinge). Note accompanying this photo identifies the girl as Ruth Sevier Wilder Collins (b. 1834), however, it may be another family member. Scattered spots around mat. 2: Sixth plate ambrotype of a young boy, standing on the same chair as the girl in the first photograph. Brown union case (broken hinge). Scattered spots around mat. 3: Quarter page ambrotype of a young woman,...

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SPC 2016.006.001 Rev. J.T. Sexton and family to Rev. J.W.(?) Anderson. Feb. 28, 1906. Biddle’s 18 Market Square Knoxville, Tenn. Handwritten names: Charlie, Willis, Mollie, Eva. 5 x 3.5” oval print mounted on board, sepia. 1 pc. SPC 2016.006.002 Rev. Thos. Sexton, The Blacksmith Preacher, and his family. Handwritten names: Amy(?) (May?), Ruth. 3.75 x 5.5” oval picture, printed. 1 pc.

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Signal Knitting Mills Strike Chattanooga (Tenn.) Photographs Charles Hinkel

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Civil War tin type in Daguerreo style Union Case embossed with the eagle and U.S. flag. Lt. S. M, Mort is in uniform, seated, holding a sword. The buttons and bars on the uniform are highlighted in gold. The sash is highlighted in purple. His obituary is folded and in the case. He died July 15, 1869. The obituary includes tributes from men who served with him in the Union army. Mort was a member of the well-known family of potters in Jefferson County, Tenn..

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Six studio portraits: 1. Mrs. E. E. Wrinkle, McCrary & Branson 2. Mr. & Mrs. Curtis & child, G. E. Weiser 3. Mrs. Callie Goodwin 4. Homer Rhea 5. Mrs. Lula Vose (?), Jesse Richardson, Maryville, Tenn. 6. Nannie Hutchens, Weiser, Opposite Court House, Knoxville, Tennessee (odd border around photograph).

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Six unidentified photographs (cartes d’ visite size) of value for the names and addresses of photographers printed on the verso: J. Bushong, Charleston, Tenn; Smiley’s (T. H. Smiley, Knoxville, Tenn; J. M. Honey, Morristown, Tenn; A. T. Hunt, Knoxville, Tenn.

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Six stereographs. SV 2003.003.001 #114 (13881) Indian Family on Prince Edward Island. 1922. c. The Keystone View Co.; SV 2003.003.002 F15 (7847) Wild ginger. c. The Keystone View Co.; SV 2003.003.003 F17 (7849) Flowering dogwood. c. The Keystone View Co.; SV 2003.003.004 #136 (23318) Mounted Sioux and camp. c. The Keystone View Co.; SV 2003.003.005 F45 (7875) Grass of Parnassus. c. The Keystone View Co.; SV 2003.003.006 I67 (V23200) Inside the Hopi Indian house, Grand Canyon, Ariz.

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1924 sketching trip to the [Great Smoky] Mountains. L-r: Robert S. McCoy, W.J. McCoy, Jr., Charles C. Krutch. One 8x10” B&W glossy copy photograph.

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Account book for the Smith drugstore [Rutledge, Tenn.], ca. 1911-1914. 1 vol. (poor condition, loose pages, index at front is damaged). + copy photograph of Clyde E. Smith standing in drugstore, ca. 1930s, 8" x 10" black & white. 1 pc.

Scope and Contents (Folders 26, 43, 49, & 75 tell of the location of Smith Family artifacts, portraits, and papers located in libraries and museums other than the McClung Collection.) Includes Tomlinson family material & Tate Springs material. Folder 13 contains postcards showing views and bldgs. of the Tate Springs Hotel. Many other postcards are in this collection, most are 19th century. Tate Springs Hotel (Inn), Knoxville Farmers Convention, agriculture, Appalachian Exposition award ribbons and...

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SPC 2011.017.001 John Smith, son of Edward Smith, husband of Mariah Christian and father of Harvey Smith et al. Born Culpepper Co., Va., 1795. Died 1883. SPC 2011.017.002 Mariah Christian Smith, granddaughter of John Adair, wife of John Smith and mother of Harvey Smith. She was born Feb. 2, 1802 and died June 21, 1883. Handwritten notes on back written by descendant Harvey Broome.

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Smithwood Grammar School exterior sepia 8 x 10”

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Smoke from the House-Hasson Hardware Company fire in the 1970s, Knoxville, Tenn. . New ‘cabin’ at right was lived in by Allen Dick, son of WIVK owner. WIVK transmitter / tower at center of photograph, ‘Big Jim Hess’ broadcast from there. Color snapshot taken by Mrs. Earl Bowerman (”Gee”, Geneva).

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Smoky Sky Lift, Gatlinburg, Tenn. June 17, 1961. Photograph. Unidentified boy riding sky lift.

Scope and Contents Snapshot of Charles Lindbergh and his plane The Spirit of St. Louis, taken by Carlie Lucas of Phillips Avenue in South Knoxville. Taken in 1927 on Lindbergh’s tour of the United States. Probably taken at Chattanooga October 5, 1927 when Lindbergh landed there in his national tour of the US. He landed in Memphis and Chattanooga on the tour. In 1928 after the tour the airplane was donated to the Smithsonian Institution The snapshot was later given to Miss Lucas’ niece, Mary Lou Coggins. Shows...

Scope and Contents The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills (SPOOM) Collection contains items related to old mills across the United States and some parts of Canada, and includes slides, photographs, lists, newspaper clippings, magazine and journal articles, and publications. Donor Michael LaForest was a founder of Society for the Preservation of Old Mills (SPOOM) and the editor of its publication for many years. A black notebook has details about the mill locations and other information re: slides &...

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Southern Exposure by J. David Ingles (Classic Trains Fall 2016) Passenger train service to Knoxville, Tenn. 1965-1966; color photographs taken by the author while he was a student at the University of Tennessee