Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection (Knoxville, Tenn.)

Scope and Contents Includes Laura Luttrell’s annotated printed catalog of the original gift from Barbara Adair McClung of her husband’s, Calvin M. McClung, personal library to create the McClung Collection. One copy of original printed catalog with circa 2018 inventory updates. One unmarked copy of original printed catalog. One folder with circa 2018 updates to original catalog of missing items.One copy of Presentation of Calvin M. McClung Historical...

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Alice Lynn Howell Collection. Includes genealogy and notes for biography on Dr. William Hunt. 2 photograph albums of snapshots of ETHS, McClung Collection events + photograph albums including historic family photographs + 1 box of her book “Adventures of a Nineteenth Century Medic [William Hunt]

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Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection bookplate. Early sharp printed example.

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Research by Ellen McClung Green (1872-1956) on genealogy (McClung, Green, Mills, Morgan, and White families) and the history of Knoxville. Also includes family correspondence, 1835-1951; newspaper clippings on Calvin Morgan McClung, Lee McClung, Frank McClung, and the McClung Historical Collection; handwritten cookbook of Ellen McClung Green, 1892.

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Examples of library catalog cards from the McClung Collection card catalog; discarded when the library collection was digitized; examples of typed cards, printed cards, and Library of Congress computer-generated cards

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Invitation to "Dedication of the Booker-Neely Microfilm Reading Room" in the McClung Historical Collection. The room was named "in honor of Robert J. Booker and Jack Neely for their efforts to preserve and promote Knoxville's history." The event took place on June 2, 2021 at 4pm in the McClung Historical Collection. Presented by Glenn Jacobs, Larsen Jay, Indya Kincannon, and Tommy Smith.

Scope and Contents Mary Utopia Rothrock (1890-1976) papers. Weeded by Miss Rothrock before donation. Subject divisions include: Biographical material; library; speeches, writings and publishing; history textbooks; historical research; Tennessee Historical Commission; historic preservation; McClung Collection; East Tennessee Historical Society; other historical societies; hereditary societies and groups; Rothrock genealogy; correspondence and papers; diaries and calendars; person papers--property holdings,...

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Pictures of staff at East Tennessee History Center between the years 1980-2018. Photo ID’s done by McClung Staff.

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McClung Historical Collection 50th Anniversary Brochures.

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Historical Photographs Copying Project. Copy negatives, participant form with photograph IDs, some copy prints. Successor project to Two Centuries Photographs Project. Two notebooks of Owner Agreement Forms & IDs (Notebook 1: 1993-2006; Notebook 2: 2007- ). Two notebooks of copy negatives: Notebook 1 1993-2006; Notebook 2 2007- .

Scope and Contents Records documenting the history of the public library from the founding of Lawson McGhee Library in 1886. Record include director’s records, board minutes of the library board, personnel, departmental records and records of branches; Lawson McGhee Library centennial material, 1986 (including scrapbook with photographs and clippings; videotape with LML centennial, public service announcements, local talk show interviews, and ‘Good Morning, America’ clip; audio cassette tape includes radio...

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May 25, 1976 letter from S. H. (”Bo”) Roberts, Knoxville International Energy Exposition (KIEE), to William J. MacArthur, Jr., McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville, Tenn. TLS (photocopied letterhead, original letter and signature). 1 pc. Re: agreeing to MacArthur’s request that KIEE/Energy Expo 82 (became the 1982 World’s Fair) material go to the McClung Historical Collection after the fair.

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Tennessee Newspaper Projects Holdings Survey for the McClung Collection. 1994. Done for the statewide project coordinated by the University of Tennessee.