Business enterprises

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128 Years of Market Square Business: 1880-2008, compiled by Forrest Conklin for the East Tennessee Historical Society.

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Card advertising Baum’s Home of Flowers (Knoxville, Tenn.) Includes list of dates for Easter from 1921-1967 and price list for corsages.

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Pamphlet advertising Bell Laundry. The laundry was in business in Knoxville 1906-1928.

Scope and Contents Berkline Corp., Silver Anniversary Issue, 1937-1962 of "The Berkliner" company magazine. Celebrating 25 years in business in Morristown, Tenn., this special issue is on glossy paper with special silver soft covers and is 1/4" thick. Celebrates the move of the Popkin family to the South and their contributions to the economy of Hamblen Co. Berkline began in Morristown in 1937 with 18 employees and began 1962 with over 1700 local employees. This company became the largest of the northern...

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Knoxville, Tenn., Geo. [George] Tobler, Dairyman, Pure Milk and Cream, December 1900, printed billhead to Mrs. Armstrong for $3.75. Says the bill is paid, signed Geo. Tobler.

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“Blue Circle: A Happy Place for Hungry People” by Jeff Stooksbury, in Burger Boy Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 9, Summer 2001. Restaurant started by Homer Longmire of Knoxville; first listed in 1932 Knoxville phone book at 614 Market Street. Also (photocopy added May 27, 2003): “The Gilded Age of the Golden Arches,” Edwin Schlechter. Burger Boy Magazine, Winter 2002. Re: Early McDonalds fast food restaurants.

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Three volumes of Buffat Family Account Books detailing Spring Place Mills business records of purchases, labor, fees, and sales plus household accounts of family purchases of consumer goods, travel expenses and servant labor.

1) P. F. Buffat 1861-1870 2) 1852-1860 3) Ledger B for the Spring Place Mills, Knox County Tenn. -- Buffat & Sons, 1868-1870

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Nine photographs plus printouts of news articles about Busch family. Identified photos include: --two photos of Busch family inside jewelry store, --two portraits of S. Harry Busch, --exterior of Royal Jewelers (504 S Gay Street), --A. K. Club Third Annual Ball (04/05/1937)

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Six B&W photos (8” x 10”) of C. M. McClung & Company employees from the 1950s + one typewritten page of IDs for one of the photos. Many of the photos have identifications written across the bottom in pen.

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McClung Warehouse Grain Painted Box, 1874. C.M. McClung & Co. grain painted pine storage box, dated July-December 1874, with hook latch and old nail construction. C. M. McClung & Co. was a hardware and agricultural implements business in Knoxville, Tenn., late 19th century.

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History of the C. M. McClung Company by Dr. Ruth Stephens; 1888 patent for Cranberry horse nails; 1909 letterhead; miscellaneous business papers.

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Booklet entitled "It's Me Linen That Kapes Me Well" promoting Dr. Deimel mesh linen underwear and listing items, prices, and care instructions of garments sold by Callaway, Lowry & Cureton located on 517 Gay Street in Knoxville.

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Cash record ledger for the Candoro Marble Company for 1 January 1919- 30 September 1921.

Scope and Contents The Chamberlain Family Papers consists of correspondence, certificates, photographs, address books, maps, programs, petitions, receipts, contracts, court records, deeds, WWII ration books, and estate documents Among the artifacts are Fred W. Chamberlain’s wallet, and the printing plate for William P. Chamberlain’s calling card. Certificates include William P. Chamberlain II’s certifications from Camp LeConte as well as certificates from his time at McCallie School. Chamberlain II’s 1933...

Scope and Contents Papers include: personal and business correspondence; 9 letterbooks of outgoing correspondence; 3 ledgers with stock and personal finances; 2 account books of the American Cattle Trust; receipts, etc. Railroads include: East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia; Memphis and Charleston; Knoxville and Kentucky; Knoxville and Ohio; Knoxville and Augusta; Southern Railway, and others. Businesses include: Southern Railway Security; American Cattle Trust; Western Union Beef; Lenoir City Company;...

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Clark Music Store [Clark & Jones Music Store], Bearden Shopping Center. February 1964, Taken by Bruce G. Leslie Studio. Two men in room with pianos. 8x10” B&W. 1 pc.

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Photocopy of article on Knoxville, Tenn., Breweries by Clifford C. “Kip” Sharpe. [1992]. 7 pp.

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Two 1859 and one 1868 orders and accounts to Cowan, McClung & Company. 3 pcs. + May 1861 Philadelphia Letter Sheet Price-Current. 2 pp.

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Early 20th century flyer from dry good store in Beulah, Tenn. "Crosby Quits Means every item must go … All to be sold at cost … C.L. Crosby Beulah, Tennessee"

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D.M. Rose and Company lumber company employees. 1887. B&W 8x10” copy photograph. Copy neg. available 11/85.

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D.M. Rose Lumber Company. 5 x 7” B&W copy photograph.

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Card for Deaderick Building Barber Shop, Julius Schwenke & Co. ladies' and children's hair dressing and hot, cold and shower baths in Knoxville.

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Brochure for The Development Corporation of Knox County promoting business growth at their industrial sites at Eastbridge Business Park, CenterPoint Park, and WestBridge Business Park.

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Shares certificate number 34 for the Doe River Woolen Mills of Elizabethton Tennessee made out for two shares of Doe River Woolen Mills stock at $50 each. Signed December 1, 1891.

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Dale R. Mayo’s seed company, D.R. Mayo Seedsman (later Mayo Garden Center) ledgers. The oversized ledgers contain business information from 1917? - ????

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Papers of E. Dean Dow, Central Agency (Real estate and collections), Knoxville. 1880-1891. 25 pcs. Letters to Dr. J. R. Ludlow, PA, and David Hunt Ludlow re: Ludlow business interests in Knoxville. Includes several local letterheads, notes of interest, and two leases (Ludlow with J. K. Payne, 1884; Ludlow with J. G. Swaggerty, 1885).

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Business correspondence from E. S. Temple of Knoxville to various correspondents. These appear to be handwritten copies of letters sent by Temple. Also a small damaged scrapbook of clippings with the name “ M. A. Craig” hand-printed on the leather cover

Scope and Contents The East Tennessee Packing Company (ETPC) Collection includes company records and documents pertaining to the 87 years of company operations, plus some relevant documents from before and after the company's time frame of existence. James B. Madden in Knoxville, Tennessee founded the company in 1895. The documents, ca. 1886 - 1984, include account books, deeds, corporate minutes, audit reports, and other related materials. The collection also includes photographs of personnel, property,...

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Photocopy of a pencil sketch of the "Edgar Lonas" Bailey Store in Strawberry Plains, Tenn. Signed Doug Griffith. Includes 4.25" x 5.25" black and white photograph of building.

Scope and Contents Research and writings of Edwin Jones Best, Sr., of Blount County, Tenn. (died 1993). Subjects include Greenback and Maryville, Tenn.; post offices; Civil War; businesses; churches; papers of W. B. Kerr & Company, 1911-1919; account books from East Tennessee businesses; extracts from the Maryville Daily Times; correspondence to Miss Cora Hammontree re: Charles Henly, ca. 1889-1897; J. B. McCollum manuscripts, 1851-1947; U.S. Official Postal Guides, 1880-1904 (some gaps); diaries of Mary...