Antoinette Miller Scrapbooks
This collection of four scrapbooks was created by Antoinette Miller during the four years she attended the University of Tennessee (1927-1931). Items include newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, holiday cards, memorabilia, photographs, and class materials. Many pages and individual items were removed before the books were donated to Special Collections.
Dates
- 1927-1931
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested in advance. See www.lib.utk.edu/special for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Conditions Governing Use
The UT Libraries claims only physical ownership of most material in the collections. Persons wishing to broadcast or publish this material must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants. Please see www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes)
Abstract
This collection of four scrapbooks was created by Antoinette Miller during the four years she attended the University of Tennessee (1927-1931). Items include newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, holiday cards, memorabilia, photographs, and class materials. Many pages and individual items were removed before the books were donated to Special Collections.
Biographical / Historical
Antoinette Frew Miller was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1909 to Horace J. and Louisa Patterson Miller. Her father, a lawyer, and mother, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family, separated when Miller was only three months old, and divorced the next year. While her two older sisters, Margaret and Catherine, went to live with their mother’s sister and brother-in-law in North Carolina, Antoinette was taken by her mother to live near family in Russellville, Tennessee. While it would take a number of years, the three sisters were eventually reunited, and all three attended the University of Tennessee.
While attending UT, Miller was active in several publications, societies, and clubs, including the Mugwump and Orange and White, the Zebra Club, and Alpha Chi Alpha. She also won the Rush Strong Medal twice, in 1930 and 1931. After graduation, Miller taught high school English in East Tennessee, before joining the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), a branch of the US Navy, in September 1943. Miller returned to teaching after her military service, and quietly married Wayne Franklin Taylor on December 18, 1950. Wayne Taylor died in 1962, but Miller continued to be active in her community, including lecturing at ETSU and writing editorials for the Knoxville News Sentinel and Kingsport Times-News.
Antoinette Frew Miller Taylor died at the age of 78 on November 13, 1987, and is buried in Bethesda Cemetery in Morristown, Tennessee.
Arrangement
This collection consists of four books housed chronologically in two boxes, and two folders containing loose items.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was gifted to Special Collections by Andy Kozer in 1990.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository