Photographs

Scope and Contents 15 folders in one box. Includes 4 original U.S. Patents: William S. Brown, K. W. Dennis, O. B. Keister. Letters Patent. Injectors. May 29, 1928. #1671851. In cover with seal.; William S. Brown, E. L. Keister, K. W. Dennis. Letters Patent. Power Reverse Mechanism for Locomotives. November 12, 1929. #1735727. In cover with seal.; William Sherman Brown, K. W. Dennis, O. B. Keister. Letters Patent. Valve Gears. July 8, 1930. # 1770296. In cover with seal.; William S. Brown. Letters Patent. Power...

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Wilson Lancaster, World War I, b/w photograph in military camp, 1917; Christmas Card (French) 1917 with flags of Allies; Pocket New Testament given to the troops. World War I embroidered cards like this Christmas card (also known as “World War I silks”) were made by women in France and Belgium to sell to Allied troops as souvenirs

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The Self-Interpreting Pictorial Family Bible (Cincinnati: Jones Bros., 1881) Christopher C. De’Armond and wife Emily Catherine McCallie.

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WNOX [Mid -Day Merry Go Round] radio broadcasts. ca. 1945? Two 8x10” B&W photographs. On stage at WNOX radio studio in Knoxville. Lowell Blanchard standing at microphone with 14 members of the cast of the daily radio program, Mid-Day Merry Go Round. One of seated is “Hot Shot Elmer,” one of the two Carlyle brothers. Second picture shows man and small group at microphones with others in background.

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Woman sitting on rock in river, rustic bridge in background.

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Woodlawn School group, Central Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn. B&W 8x10” copy photograph. Copy neg. available 4/88.

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Woods Consolidated School, 1912. Ext. sepia 8 x 10”. School takes the place of Vandergriff and Pleasant Gap Schools.

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Scrapbook of photographs of Works Progress Administration (W. P. A.) projects, ca. 1935-1943. Compiled by Nell S. Hendrix (June 1943, Knoxville, Tenn.). Snapshots include W. P. A. projects such as roads, bridges, buildings, football stadium in Bristol, Tenn. Detailed captions on back of pictures.

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Apparently taken overseas and printed in Chattanooga after the war. Possibly taken in the vicinity of St. Hihiel, Meuse-Argonne campaign. Harry George Ritter was from Knoxville (b. 1900) and served in Battery C of the 114th Field Artillery Unit, 30th Division. Records being in the battle of St. Hihiel in his wartime bible.

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World’s Fair slides and 35 mm b-w negatives. Taken by Larry Maloney. World’s Fair Memorabilia.

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World’s Fair Souvenir postcards and snapshots.

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B&W group portrait of Wright Family, also includes Buffat and Groner surnames 10” x 12” Typed description on back of photograph including location of photo [”taken at the home of Henry Baxter and Nancy Jean Groner on Emory Road west of Harrell Road, Knoxville, Tennessee, about 1905”] and identifications.

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Young Family Bible and photographs. Bath County, Ky. “The Holy Bible: Old and New Testaments” was published in Cincinnati by E. Morgan & Company in 1851. The bible also has a Young family genealogy (handwritten) inserted with the section of births, deaths, and marriages. The genealogy was written by V. B. (Van Buren) Young (1830-1892). 24 photographs mounted on cards are also included, unidentified but mostly taken in Mt. Sterling, Ky.

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Young High School exterior and principal’s home. B&W 8 x 10”

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Young’s Department Store interior, ca. 1910. David Young’s first store on Main Street, Maryville, Tenn. Young’s was later purchased by Proffitt’s Department Store.

Scope and Contents Cased ambrotype of four people, one in Confederate uniform believed to be Z. T. Willet based on newspaper clipping found with ambrotype. The other man is holding a Confederate uniform cap. Two unidentified women also in picture. Gold highlights and light tinting added to image. Break in glass at left, running across man in uniform. Handwritten note with picture: Taken by J. W. Keen, [Jonesboro, Tenn.]. October 14, 1861. Newspaper clipping (Corinth, Miss, April 18, [18]62) with ambrotype...