Banks and banking

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Booklet sent to East Tennessee National Bank customers about the United States Treasury Department

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June 7, 1792, letter from A. (Alexander) Hamilton, Treasury Department, to Thomas Willing, president of the Bank of the United States. ALS 1 p. Transmitting the President’s ratification of a loan made to the United States by the Bank.

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January 5, 1833 bond between Andrew McMillan, Hugh A.M. White, Calvin Morgan, William Park and William S. Howell, all of Knox County, Tenn., and the Bank of the State of Tennessee. $100,000 bond for Andrew McMillan as cashier of the Knoxville Branch of the Bank.

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Record book of the Bank of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tenn. 1853-1855. (58 pp. filled in). 1 volume.

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Minute book of the Bank of the State of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1830-1844. Includes accounts of the annual election of Directors. 1 vol.

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Branch Bank of Tennessee at Knoxville. Blank check form. 186_. Printed by Beckett, Haws & Co., Knoxville. 1 pc.

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Certificates of charter issued to Broadway Federal Savings and Loan Association, Knoxville, Tenn. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. 1961-1966. DS 6 pcs. (Some tape damage from where certificates were on display in the bank).

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Program for the Summer Conference of the Central States Morris Plan Bankers Association hosted by Morris Plan Bank of Chattanooga and held July 3-4, 1938 at Lookout Mountain Hotel.

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1919 City National Bank stock certificate (Knoxville) to Mrs. Nola Hill Davis for 25 shares. No. 671. DS 1 pc. City National Bank stock certificate (Knoxville) to Mrs. Allie H. Galyon for 25 shares. No. 1175. March 1, 1929. DS 1 pc. Empty envelope with 2 cent stamp addressed to Miss Ruth Davis, 420 Walnut Street, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 pc. Postmarked September 21, 1915.

Scope and Contents MM.1979.021a includes: 1866 cashier bond for Rufus M. McClung; 1871 account of Cowan, Dickinson with Charles Seymour; 1872 receipts to James D. Cowan and Perez Dickinson, executors, of James H. Cowan; 1880 promissory note from Perez Dickinson to Rev. P.D. Cowan; S. T. Atkin Co. letterhead (1883); + misc. receipts & envelopes. MM.1979.021b includes: 1866-1867 letters from M. Davenport, Lynchburg, to John L. Rhea re: bank matters; letters re: book about Rev. Samuel Rhea + photograph of...

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$20.00 National Currency Bank note drawn on the East Tennessee National Bank of Knoxville. Ben A. Morton, President. National Currency. Series of 1929. #2049, serial # A006326A. Circulated, with pencil mark on lower left of front of bill. 1 pc.

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Handwritten list of items followed by dollar values--apparently an estate list. List was written on the back of stationery from the Knoxville branch of the Ocoee Bank, George M. Branner, president. 186_. 10 pp.

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Original letter by Mrs. Benjamin Rush Strong (Frances E. Danner) written from Knoxville, ca. 1861-1865. + transcription. April 5, 1864 note to Mrs. Strong from Lt. Gratz, Knoxville, re: departure into Rebel lines. Obituary of Joseph Churchill Strong, M.D. Transcribed from Knoxville Register, November 5, 1844 (tape on back). Bank of East Tennessee, Knoxville. $3.00 bill for 1852, 1854, 1855. 3 pcs. (some torn; tape damage).

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Hamilton National Bank, Knoxville, Tenn (1937 exterior, Thompson’s # A-3356 A1; employees and officers, 1937, Thompson’s #A-3329 A1, ID on back of photograph; 1942 interior Thompson’s # 11554 A5); “Gordon C. Greene” paddle boat and Knoxville skyline, 1937. B&W 8 x 10”

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Hamilton National Bank. Letter announcing opening April 27, 1931. Depositors of the Holston National Bank could reclaim 40% or deposits from the newly established bank after the failure of the Holston Bank

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Approximately 200 separate reels of 16mm film of various lengths, totaling several thousand feet, representing Vic Weals' activities as a journalist, news stringer, and industrial filmmaker in East Tennessee from the 1950s to the 1970s. Weals was a columnist for the Knoxville Journal for several decades. The collection includes raw footage, pre-print materials, and preservation elements for a 1957 sponsored film promoting the Knox County school system.

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Hu L. McClung bank draft, March 30, 1841. Check written on the Branch of the South-Western Railroad Bank, Knoxville, Tennessee. Pay to Pay to Wm. S. McCampbell’s note, $195.87. Signed Hu L. McClung. DS 1 pc.

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1) January 19, 1929. Typed letter to E.A. McSpadden (New Market, Tenn.) from J.R. Allen, Sheriff (Sevierville, Tenn.). Recommendation letter for Deputy James L. Butler. Signed. 1pp. 2) February 18, 1929. Typed letter to J.R. Allen, Deputy (Sevierville, Tenn.) from Bank of New Market (Tenn.). Request for collection on three notes - Harmon Loveday, Audrey Franklin, and R.M. Teague. 1pp.

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Knoxville Banking & Trust Company, Bank Book, 1912 Bank book of Rosa Carr, paternal grandmother of the donor

Scope and Contents Papers and artifacts of Mary Katherine Dulin (Mrs. Clifford Folger), her school scrapbook (Finch School, 1920s and Miss Beard’s School), travel mementoes, photographs, condolence letters re: her father’s death, some small artifacts of H. L. Dulin. The personal letters and diaries were not donated to the McClung Collection. The Mary Katherine Dulin Collection consists primarily of school mementos and personal sewing and art supplies with some photographs, publications, and items related to...

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Newspaper clippings from the vertical files, Banks and Banking: City-County Bank; Hamilton National Bank; United American Bank; SIBC. Removed from vertical file and boxed for preservation

Scope and Contents “An Act to Establish Courts” 1835, 4 pp.; Citizens Building and Loan Association pamphlet, Knoxville, Tenn., no date, 16 pp.; First Semi-Annual Report of the Covenant Building and Loan Association of Knoxville, ending June 30, 1891, 4 pp.; Commencement Ball ticket, Lamar House, June 15; Entertainment at the Coleman House invitation, February 22, 1895 (photostat); Hostetter’s Illustrated U.S. Almanac, 1883; Statement of Mossy Creek Bank, Jefferson City, Tenn., 1909; postcard from Mossy Creek...

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January 3, 1866, letter from P. [Perez] Dickinson, President, First National Bank of Knoxville, to U. S. Treasurer, Washington, D. C. ALS 1 p. Re: signature of new bank cashier R. M. McClung.

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Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of the annual reports of Knoxville banks, 1907- . Compiled by East Tenn. National Bank and later Park National Bank. Collected from newspapers where the annual reports were required by law to be published. Box 1: 1907-1914, 1925-1940, 1941-1958; Box 2: 1959-1975, 1976-1983; Box 3: Original Entries, Park National Bank, 1933.

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Sevier County Bank. May 21, 2006 booklet produced for Grand Opening of the new bank building in Sevierville.15 pp. 2 copies.

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Printed desk calendar (all pages intact)

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Card with engraving of City Hall on front, inside has history of City Hall building (formerly main building for Tennessee School for the Deaf) and Statement of Condition for Tennessee Valley Bank for 1948, back has listing of bank officers and directors.

Scope and Contents Business and personal papers, photographs, documents of John Monroe Clark (1868-1950) of Blount County, Tennessee and the allied families of Cates, Brabson, Foute and Pinkerton. John Monroe Clark was a successful banker, civic leader, businessman, and an active participant in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was instrumental in preserving and maintaining Clark’s Grove Cemetery and operated a large farm in Blount County. Other important individuals in the...

Scope and Contents Material on the United American Bank (UAB) in Knoxville and C & C Bank. United American Bank: annual reports for 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981; quarterly reports; bank brochures; employee handbooks; “Fifty Years United” 1981 anniversary material; 1982 World’s Fair coloring book; UAB; celebrity tennis classic program, 1982; UAB telephone directory; “The Butchers’ Tennessee-Kentucky Banking Interests.” + “A Salute to Men of Great Vision” poster (Jake Butcher and Bo Roberts) in flat storage...

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Commercial for Home Federal Bank.