Photographs

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Vestal Service Station, Waco Motor Co. filling station. 1648 Vestal Avenue, formerly Martin Mill Pike. Owners John A. Ambrister and Roy Roberts. Right side of photograph, Noah C. Atchley Grocery Store, 1650 Vestal Avenue. Roy Roberts third from left in the photograph.ca. 1928.

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Veterans of the Reunion of Co. C, 1st Tenn. Cavalry Association (framed and mounted black & white photograph), ca. 1900 (possibly 1920s).

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One stereograph. SPC 2016.001 View from Summitt Hill, Knoxville, Tenn. ca 1881. Stereoscopic views of Knoxville and Vicinity by McCrary & Branson, Photograph and Portrait Artists, Dealers In Mouldings, Frames, Photographic & Artists Materials. 130 Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn. View taken from the top of Summitt Hill looking down and to the north. Shows Gay Street Viaduct and the [ETV&G R.R.] roundhouse behind it. 1 pc. (back has been cracked).

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SPC 2017.015.001 View of Gay Street after fire, 1897 (marked 1898 on back). 1 pc. 6.5 x 4.25”, mounted on board. sepia. SPC 2017.015.002 View of Gay Street after fire, 1897 (marked 1898 on back). 1 pc. 5 x 7” mounted on board. graytone. SPC 2017.015.003 . Hill at Locust, Knoxville, Tenn. Believed to be the back of the Perez Dickinson property, possibly the stables. McCrary & Branson, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 pc. 9 x 7”, mounted on board. sepia

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Oversize photograph of view of Island Home Farm (Perez Dickinson’s farm), Knoxville, Tenn. Taken by Stewart Photo. Knoxville, Tenn. View overlooking river towards Island Home Farm. Image area 16 x 20”; sepia. Mounted (most of the deteriorating mounting was trimmed off Oct. 2012).

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View of N. College Street, Nashville, Tenn, showing Sherman Saloon at left and Eureka Restaurant and G.W. Rothwell & Co. ca. 1865. Sepia-toned. About 3.25 x 2.5” Partial (appears to have been cut). On back: From T. M. Schleier’s Fine Art Gallery, Knoxville, East Tenn. 1 pc.

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SPC 2012.014.001 View of University of Tennessee and buildings on the Hill, ca. 1895. 8 x 10” sepia print. (Some damage nears tops of buildings). 1 pc.

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Views of Knoxville, Tenn. 1898. One view (“Bird’s-eye”) looking from South Knoxville towards downtown; other view is on North Gay Street looking south. Shows Rosentha[l’s], Whittle Trunk Company, streetcar tracks, etc. 7x10” sepia. Mounted. The name “F.H. Zurfluh” is written on the back of each print.

Scope and Contents V.L. Nicholson, Contractor (Knoxville-Nashville) and Warner Service Co. Electrical and Mechanical Contractors, 1923-1948 and undated. 10 folders of composite photographs removed from frames (6/2005) and placed in Flat Storage folders. Photos and backing are extremely soiled. Photos are black-and-white, are 8"x10" or smaller, and are attached to mat board, heavy paper, or other board. Photographs of: Dougherty Engineering Building, UT, 1948; Knoxville Waterworks; Standard Ice Co.; McGinley...

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Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee photograph by David A. Ramsey done in commemoration of the signature exhibit of the East Tennessee Historical Society / opening of the Museum of East Tennessee History, 2008. Signed in lower left: ‘For the McClung Collection, DR, August 2008’. Signed & initialed in lower right. 16 x 20”.

Scope and Contents May 17, 1862 letter from ‘A Conservative Man,’ New York, to Dr. Brownlow. May 19, 1862 response from W.G. Brownlow, Astor House, to ‘A Conservative Man’ on same paper. ALS 2 pp. (1 pc.) Re: Cruelty inflicted on Union men was by people “raised and educated in the midst of slavery.” Brownlow replied that the worst actions he witnessed were by Northern men. W.G. Brownlow, Providence, note to Mr. Crossman. June 3, 1862. Thanking him for the memorial of Roger Williams. ANS 1 pc. Carte-de-visite...

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Scrapbook compiled by W.H. Kephart, Knoxville, Tenn., ca. 1870s-1910s. Contains newspaper clippings (mostly about Knoxville and local citizens); ephemera; photographs; and handwritten notes. Subject index at front of volume + loose handwritten index of people pictured. Appalachian Exposition ribbon, p. 175.

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Genealogical information on the John and Mary Keener Whittle family and their eleven children. A few manuscript items were included with the collection. Family research includes the following surnames: Blair, Bowman, Cunningham, Davis, Garner, Hicks, Houston, Jack, Keener, Lewis, McCallie, McCroskey, Montgomery, Ottlinger, Palmer, Smith/Smyth, Tipton, Warren, Whittle

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Twelve scrapbooks (in 6 boxes) of Knoxville Service Director, City Manager, and Mayor Walter W. Mynatt, 1922-1941; photographs (some copy photographs) of Knoxville, Henley Street Bridge, and the original McGhee Tyson Airport building. Includes 5 historic photographs by C. Kinzel and a color print of the Knoxville city flag; personal and political papers; small artifacts.

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Research done by Warner Ogden (writer for the Knoxville News-Sentinel) on the downtown Knoxville re-development projects in the 1960s, i.e., the GAY/WAY and the Market Square Project. Some photographs.

Scope and Contents Papers of William H. Watterson (1836-1908), son of Henry and Lydia Hutchisson Watterson, Hawkins County, Tenn. William H. Watterson attended Emory and Henry College in Virginia and studied law under L. C. Haynes. He served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1865 and practiced law in Rogersville, Tenn. He married Minerva B. Riley in 1870. He was clerk and master of the chancery court of Hawkins County, the mayor of Rogersville, and a United States Commissioner. Papers include: personal and...

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Webb’s Store, Knoxville, Tenn.. Exterior, night shot. 8x10” B&W Thompson Company, Knoxville, Tenn.

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West End Street Railway, Circle Park, Knoxville, Tenn. 1897. Electric car (streetcar) with 5 men, l-r: unknown; Matt Johnson?; J.E. Phelps (died 1904), conductor; unknown; Charles F. Wayland, Motorman. Sepia print, mounted.

Scope and Contents Westwood Collection; Armstrong, Lutz, Holloway ,Matheny families. Family papers have passed through three houses: Crescent Bend, Bleak House and Westwood. Papers include correspondence of Robert. H, Armstrong, Drury P. Armstrong ,the Lutz family, the Holloway family the Matheny family, R. H. Armstrong receipts, East Tennessee Mental Hospital, cards and calling cards, ephemera, newspaper clippings, whole newspapers, pamphlets, framed photographs, unframed photographs, photographic negatives,...

Scope and Contents Photograph album (ca. 1860s) of cartes de visites from family of Hugh Andrew May White. Sophia Moody White, wife of George M. White (loose); Andrew Park, Jane Bowie, Langdon Bowie, Sophie Bowie, Margie Coffin Orto, Park Bowie, Alice McEwen, Hector and Ann Eliza Coffin (children); Lizzie Mitchell Moses (Frank Moses wife) (tintype); Hector Coffin (adult); Hugh Craighead; Belle Stephenson; Sophi Stephenson (child); aunt Cynthia White (grandfather’s sister) [daughter of James and Mary Lawson...

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Donated as part of the Bearden History Project. White Store on Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Tenn., next to Mann’s Mortuary (where Regions Bank is in 2009). Ca. 1952. Picture was taken to celebrate the new Royal Crown Cola cooler. Woman is Imogene Myers, young man is store manager (name not known). The store also served as the West Knoxville Post Office. 8x10” copy photograph.

Scope and Contents Whittle Communications Collection. Property History Files. Wall Media (Campus Voice, Connections, Esquire, Family Health Advisor, Health Digest, Parenting Advisor, etc.). Wall Media (Physician’s Weekly, Road Trips, Women’s Health Advisor, mixed titles); Booklets; Photos, slides, properties. Property History Files; Press clips, Chris Whittle & others; Misc.; company newsletters; Chef Executive press series; assorted books; Special Report Magazine. Magazines & duplicates; notebooks;...

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Will Parham photographs of Blount County (6 folders), East Tennessee and North Carolina. Also includes some non-photograph material and negatives. Will E. Parham (1860-1946) was a woolen mill operator, a state legislator, and chairman of the Blount County Court for many years. He was considered “the Blount County historian” before such an office existed officially and spent many years researching the history and the family history of Blount County.

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Color photographs of houses in Sequoyah Hills taken by Bill Shelton. Houses have not been identified by address or owner.

Scope and Contents William Barton Reynolds (1820-1882) was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and lived in Benton, Polk County, Tenn. He died in Rome, Ga. Folders 1-3 include correspondence to and from William Barton Reynolds, 1855-1876. Major correspondents were son-in-law Peter Smith and John H. Reynolds. Topics include family business, education, the Civil War and conditions in East Tennessee, Lincoln’s death, and spiritualism. Folder 4 has a copy of W.B. Reynold’s obituary and reprints of six family...

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William Brownlow Patrick Glass Plate negatives (1901) A series of photographs made by William Brownlow Patrick, son of Anne Brownlow and William F. Patrick, grandson of William G. and Eliza Brownlow, of Knoxville with family photographs and identified Knoxville scenes.

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William C. George scrapbooks of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) clippings, maps, photographs and publications. Three 3-ring binders. Includes: “TVA Program in text and pictures from the Architectural Forum”; clippings (1950s-1960s); navigation charts / maps; photographs from various dam projects including Wilson Dam, Pickwick, Norris, Hiwassee, Chickamauga, Watauga.

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William Ellis House, Sevier County, Tenn (color photographs and negatives) The photographs taken shortly before the house was demolished in 1992. It stood above the French Broad River on the hill above Kyker’s Ferry, It was a brick Federal I -house with outbuildings. The small house built for Mary Ellis still stands. See Robbie D. Jones, The Historic Architecture of Sevier County, Tennessee. Page 205.

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Cartes de visite (CDVs) of William G. Brownlow. 23 pcs. Cartes de visite (CDVs) of Andrew Johnson. 14 pcs.

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Photographs of William G. Brownlow (copy neg. was made 7/2001), Brownlow’s granddaughter and grandson, and family wedding pictures from 1899 (Clarence Benscoter and Lucille Boynton). 3 folders. Photograph of seated Wm. G. Brownlow with right hand in coat was made from a Matthew Brady negative (Brady’s National Portrait Gallery).