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This collection contains a single letter written by George Brown of the East Tennessee Music Company. Brown typed this letter to Mildred Metler on April 19, 1907 to inform her that she won a prize for a contest the company held. The letter details when to pick up her prize and where. The letter is printed on stationary that contains advertisements, both for Kimball Pianos and Organs.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Parker Family Papers contains material relating to the history and genealogy of the Parker family of East Tennessee. Items include photographs, papers, and scrapbooks that document several family members over a range of years throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Included are four individual photographs, all undated. One is of an unidentified group of people near a river; one is a portrait of J. C. Parker; one is a portrait of Mary E. Burke Parker; and one...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Genealogy of Horsley Family was created in 1890 by Georges-Frédéric Baillairgé, a Canadian civil servant, engineer, and author. This collection contains "Part II" of his own family history, focusing on the Horsley branch. This manuscript consists of 46 typed pages including biographies of Baillairgé's ancestors and copied letters and poems they wrote. "Part II" contains the history of the Horsley family dating back to 1680. Richard...

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This collection contains one lab manual that belonged to Joanna Alexander in 1924 during her time at Appalachia High School in Appalachia, Virginia. Her school work is written in pen, and she completed most of the assignments and experiments in the manual. The manuscript is titled "Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Science," written by Bertha M. Clark, Ph.D., and is 181 pages long.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of two letters written sixteen years apart. The first is by Colonel S. B. Moe describing his experiences during the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863. Moe's letter is addressed to The Chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park Commission. Moe explains that he wants all accounts of the battle to be taken into consideration. He believed that the monuments and descriptive tablets that existed at the time were not completely accurate. Moe gives his account of the...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In this letter to the editor of the Richmond Enquirer, Benjamin Watkins Leigh writes under the pseduonym Algernon Sidney to defend Andrew Jackson against critics of his character and actions. The collection conists of one handmade booklet containing the article in the newspaper cut and pasted to paper. The booklet is fourteen pages and the article is titled "General Jackson. To the Editor of the Richmond Enquirer." The date December 1818 is handwritten on a...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of papers concerning J. F. Wilson's book Earthquakes and Volcanoes (1910). There are thirty items total in this collection. Several are letters from the Broadway Publishing Company in New York discussing publishing details. Other letters are from the Library of Congress regarding the copyright for this book, which was received in 1906. Several handwritten chapters from the book are also included, complete with figure drawings and a draft of the...