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Buckinghamshire (England) Indenture

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0438
Abstract

This legal document covers a land dispute between William Gonseer and Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire, England in the early 18th century.

Dates: 1715 October 8

Buford Harper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CSWS-0182
Abstract

This collection contains materials related to U.S. Army veteran Buford Harper’s experiences in World War II in the European Theater. Included are photostats of articles, correspondence, club membership cards, snapshots, and postcards.

Dates: 1942-1945

Building Dedication Records

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0608
Abstract

This collection houses planning information and schedules documenting building dedications and ceremonies on the University of Tennessee campus.

Dates: 2001-2002

Burchfiel Family Genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2532
Abstract

This collection contains a two volume set of papers on the Burchfiel family compiled in 2000 in conjunction with the dedication of the Burchfiel Geography Building on the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus.

Dates: 2000

Bureau for Colored Troops Muster Roll

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3335
Abstract This ledger, entitled Register of Muster-In and Muster-Out of U. S. Colored Troops During the Rebellion of 1861, contains muster-in records for Batteries A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, K, and L of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Heavy Artillery and muster-out records for Battery A. Batteries A, B, C, D, G, I, K, and M mustered in at Memphis, Tennessee, while Batteries F, H, and L mustered in at Fort Pickering, Tennessee. All of the musters-in took place in 1863, and Battery A mustered out in Memphis...
Dates: 1863-1866

Bureau of Public Administration Records

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0024
Abstract

This collection contains records from the University of Tennessee Department of Political Science's Bureau of Public Administration, dated between 1941-1966.

Dates: 1941 March 1-1966 February 25

Bursar and Registrar Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0250
Abstract

This collection houses approximately 16,500 bills, orders, receipts, and contracts documenting the University of Tennessee between 1893 and 1912. Among the subjects represented are the University Boarding Club (1897-1900), Knoxville College (1897-1898), and the Library (1893-1910). Also included are contracts made between the University and various fraternities for boarding in the fraternity houses.

Dates: 1893-1912

Bursar and Registrar Records and Reports

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0259
Abstract This collection houses official materials documenting the office of the University Bursar and Registrar between 1893 and 1908. The majority of the material concerns budgeting matters and includes figures for the University as a whole and for such individual entities as the Agricultural Experiment Station and the University of Tennessee Boarding Club. Other materials include appropriations, travel expenses, University statistics, correspondence with Federal agencies, and various University...
Dates: 1893-1908

Bursar's Office and Registrar's Office Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0364
Abstract

This collection houses account books, cash books, daybooks, and letterbooks documenting financial matters at East Tennessee University and the University of Tennessee between 1871 and 1934.

Dates: 1858; Majority of material found within 1871-1934

Burum and Gallaher Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1109
Abstract This collection houses photographs, correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting the Gallaher and Burum families of Tennessee and their descendants in California and Washington State. Additionally, the collection contains some information about Roane College in the late 19th century. Most of the materials were collected by Edna Burum Richards to send to her cousin Lizzie Mae Douthitt Ghormley. Many of the photographs include contextual notes on the back handwritten by...
Dates: 1850-1974

Business Manager Records

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0264
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of contracts made between the University of Tennessee and such organizations as the V. L. Nicholson Construction Company, the U.S. Government, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. These documents are arranged alphabetically by company. Also included are bonds and leases (arranged alphabetically by company) and campus building specifications (arranged alphabetically by building).

Dates: 1940-1960

By-Ways, Highways and Ways

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0376
Abstract

This collection consists of two drafts of a talk given to the Dickson County Historical Society by J. B. Murray. The talk concerned the history of the roads in Dickson County, Tennessee. The talk dated back to the early 1800s, when roads started to be built across the country.

Dates: undated

Byron de la Beckwith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3439
Abstract This collection consists primarily of letters that Byron de la Beckwith wrote to his wife, Mary Louise (Williams) Beckwith, his son, Byron de la Beckwith Jr., and his brother- and sister-in-law, Jesse and Frances Williams, while he was incarcerated before and during his first trial for the murder of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Another set of correspondence was written between Beckwith and his nephew, B. Reed Massengill, while Massengill was working on a book chronicling Beckwith's life. Also...
Dates: circa 1940-1992 December 9

Byron De La Beckwith Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2271
Abstract

In a March 21, 1972 handwritten letter of application for employment with Bryan Brothers Packing Company in West Point, Mississippi, Byron De La Beckwith provides his employment history and his thoughts on topics such as labor unions, dealings with minority customers, integrated schools, and politics. He also lists organizations and activities with which he is affiliated.

Dates: 1972 March 21

C. A. Harris Letter to James K. Polk

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1861
Abstract

In this letter, Harris asks Polk to send him the names of anyone he would like invited to an upcoming Medical Board so that the appropriate invitations can be mailed.

Dates: circa 1836 February 12

C. B. Alexander Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR-0170
Abstract

This collection houses materials collected by University of Tennessee student Cyrus B. Alexander. These items include an Athletic Association ticket for intercollegiate games during the 1919-1920 season, a tuition receipt for the second term of 1918-1919, a pamphlet for the Summer School of the South's Manual Training and Mechanical Drawing program, and a newsletter from Charles Ferris, Dean of Engineering, dated July 12, 1921.

Dates: 1918-1921

C. B. Alexander Receipt

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2440
Abstract

The C. B. Alexander Receipt Folder contains receipts, checks, letters and envelopes, account books, credit and registration certificates, and membership cards for the Order of the Railroad Telegraphers, as well as a photo negative of a soldier and postcard of the Knoxville Deaf and Dumb School. The items date from 1916-1923.

Dates: 1916-1923

C. E. Wylie Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0581
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of letters to and from Charles Wylie, including invitations to speak or write, requests for information about the department or the field of dairying, Wylie's attempt to secure a foreign appointment, and department business. Also included is information about the field of dairying, requirements for publications, reports, statistics, and other materials.

Dates: 1958 January 7-1960 December 28

C. J. Bartlett Itinerary

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1255
Abstract

Railroad itinerary dated June 17, 1907, for C. J. Bartlett from Thomas Cook and Son, Managers of Tours and Excursions.

Dates: 1907 June 17

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Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 296
World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- United States. 294
Universities and colleges -- Tennessee. 277
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 252
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Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History. 117
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. 102
United States. Army. 100
World War, 1939-1945. 95
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Education, Higher -- Tennessee. 82
Tennessee -- History. 76
University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- History. 76
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe. 75
United States. Navy. 60
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 59
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 57
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area. 55
Radiation -- Research. 52
University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- Faculty. 50
Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 49
Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. 48
Correspondence. 47
Authors, American -- Tennessee. 45
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.). 42
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 40
Nashville (Tenn.) -- History. 39
World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence. 38
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. 35
Slavery -- Tennessee 34
Tennessee -- Commerce. 34
Account books -- Tennessee. 33
Soldiers -- Tennessee -- Correspondence. 32
United States. Army Air Forces. 32
Davidson County (Tenn.) -- History. 31
Tennessee -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. 31
Authors, American -- 20th century. 29
Tennessee -- Politics and government. 29
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe. 29
Motion pictures -- United States. 27
United States. Air Force. 25
County courts -- Tennessee. 24
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Pictorial works. 24
Tennessee -- Politics and government -- To 1865. 24
Tennessee -- Religion. 24
Tennessee, East -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 24
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.). 23
Tennessee -- Genealogy. 23
University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- Alumni and alumnae. 23
Knox County (Tenn.) -- History. 22
Photographs. 22
United States. Marine Corps. 22
Account books. 21
Land tenure -- Tennessee. 21
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History. 21
University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- Administration. 21
Education -- Tennessee. 20
Knoxville (Tenn.) 20
Legal documents -- Tennessee. 20
Tennessee Volunteers (Football team). 20
Broadsides 19
Knoxville (Tenn.) -- Commerce. 19
Lawyers -- Tennessee. 19
Legal documents -- United States. 19
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care. 19
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States. 19
Land grants -- Tennessee. 18
Tennessee Valley Authority -- History. 18
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France. 18
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy. 18
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) -- History. 17
Knoxville (Tenn.) -- Pictorial works. 17
Sheet music. 17
World War, 1914-1918. 17
Authors, American -- Southern States. 16
Greene County (Tenn.) 16
Railroads -- Tennessee. 16
Screenplays 16
Tennessee -- Pictorial works. 16
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 16
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American. 16
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North. 16
Court records -- Tennessee -- Knox County. 15
Governors -- Tennessee. 15
Medicine -- Tennessee. 15
Radiobiology. 15
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. 15
United States. Army. Air Corps. 15
World War, 1939-1945 -- Periodicals. 15
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography. 15
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American. 15
American literature -- 20th century. 14
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 14
Nashville (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 14
Physicians -- Tennessee. 14
Politicians -- Tennessee. 14
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Tennessee. 14
Tennessee, East -- History. 14
United States -- Description and travel. 14
Women authors, American -- Tennessee. 14
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