Mills

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Copy photograph of Beidleman Mill, Sullivan County, Tenn.. Burned ca. 1965.

Scope and Contents Records of Brookside Mills, Knoxville, Tenn. Includes 8 boxes of records manuscripts, union contracts (1941-1948), labor schedules, payroll records (1887-1896, 1924-1945), fabric and dye samples, financial statements (1941-1945), machinery and equipment, jobs in progress, working papers. + 14 boxes of employee files + 14 boxes of employee records (1895-1920) + oversize photograph of Brookside Mills officers + architectural drawings and plans (1898-1920) + microfilm of payroll records...

Scope and Contents Papers of the family of Pierre Francois Buffat, his wife Sylvie Louise Tauxe Buffat, their children and relatives, who came from Switzerland to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849. Pierre F. Buffat owned a farm at Spring Place in Knox County, Tenn. He ran a mill starting in 1861, and his son Alfred Buffat joined the business in 1865. Other family names included in the correspondence include: Bolli, Chavannes, Porta, Esperandieu, Sterchi, Truan, and Tauxe. Many of the letters were written in French,...

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Slides and four b&w photographs of the Carter Mill restoration, 1977-1978. McClung Collection had 120 copy negs. (3 copies) of one of the photographs in Dec, 1997.

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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Dungan St. John Mill, Watauga, Tenn., Carter County, Tenn. . Mill established in 1778 by Jeremiah Dungan; operated by the St. John family after 1866. Brochure from the Tennessee Bicentennial 1996

Scope and Contents 1. One blueline plan of Peters & Bradley Mill Company, Storage Bin addition. 20.75 x 23” dated 3/14/11 2. Six blueprint sheets for the Mr. Will Peters [residence] (now 1319 Grainger Avenue), Knoxville, Tenn. By George F. Barber & Co., Architects. (removed from wooden dowel): front elevation, left side elevation (Both 19.75 x 14”); first floor plan, second floor plan, roof plan, foundation plan (all 20 x 15.5”). 3. On architect’s tracing paper, house detail. 2...

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133 5”x7” images, nearly all images are transparencies sandwiched between two glass plates taped together. Views include primarily nature and landscape scenes, a few still life compositions, and several portraits of unidentified people. Includes views of the Peters & Bradley Mill located off Broadway along First Creek. Very few labeled.

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Hall Brothers Collection (Fordtown, Tenn) Hall’s Mills, Manufacturers of Flour, Meal, and Feed, Hall Brothers (A. S. Hall and E. M. Hall) Fordtown, Tenn. Catalogs, brochures, ephemera, letterheads, ca. 1910- ca. 1940.

Scope and Contents Copy photographs made from nitrate negatives. Prints made from original negatives before freezing. Original book holding the negatives also contained a descriptive key, which did not match contents by arrangement. Pictures taken by Irvin (“Mike”) S. Saxton (see Baker-Himel School catalog, 1905-1906). Subjects include: Baker-Himel School, Knoxville, Bristol, Elizabethton Courthouse, residential int. & ext., high school sports, and Knoxville Lumber Company saw mill, Saxton & Company...

Scope and Contents Collection of Fain family papers from East Tennessee. Includes: diaries of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain (1816-1892), dating from 1834 to 1892; military papers of Richard G. Fain; papers from the Mossy Creek Cotton Mill, 1862-1879; account books, Bible entries for Fain and Anderson families; photographs; almanacs; recipes; slaves to Liberia (folder 31); Rhea family genealogy; Elizabeth Rhea Anderson diary; Hiram Fain diary; patent medicine circulars; ephemera. 11 boxes of processed material....

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Kodak Milling Co., Kodak, Tenn.

Marvel Bolted White Plain Flour (paper bag, 10 lbs).

Marvel Feed Sack (cloth sack, 100 lbs).

Three color printed cards (two Kodak Milling Company; one the H. N. Underwood Barn).

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“Lyons Mill, 100 years old.” 4.4x7” sepia toned photograph of mill with water wheel, mounted on yellow board. Right side of photograph is faded. Back side of mounting has printed list of “Views In And About Knoxville.” 1 pc.

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One page with poem “Old Carter Mill” by Doyle Vaden. Signed “To Paul and Linda!! Doyle Vaden” Seal in bottom left corner: “Save the Mill Series. Limited Edition Collection. Carter Mill by Doyle Vaden 1973 Knox County Tenn.”

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Printed poem “Old Carter Mill” illustrated with photograph of mill by Doyle Vaden, copyright 1978. Signed by Doyle Vaden. 1 pc. + brochure entitled “The Art of Saving” re: Carter Mill and Doyle Vaden. 1 pc.

Scope and Contents Sawyers and McBee Family Papers, gift of Charles R. McBee & Betty McBee Sloan. Collection contains papers of William Sawyers, Justice of the Peace, Knox County. Papers (1785-1899) mention slaves by name, bills of sale & judgments re: slaves, land transfers & claims, deeds, Joseph White will, Bible Society circulars, the Steamboat Knoxville, Thomas Graham Creek War certificate of service, Strawberry Plains, Grainger, Blount, and Madison Counties, Civil War letters and letters...

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 &...

Scope and Contents Two notebooks, covering the years 1885-1950 (#1) and 1950-1979 (#2) on the history and working of the W. J. Savage Company of Knoxville, Tenn. The notebooks contain a history of the company (prepared by Ruth Stevens), photographs, brochures for products, and copies of plans for various projects (which illustrate projects worked on by donor Gus Ellis). The notebooks were originally prepared by Mr. Ellis for his sons, Ray and John Douglas Ellis. The W. J. Savage Company produced mill and mine...