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This collection consists of recipes for White Cake from Mary Crozier, One Egg Cake, White Cake, Jumbles, Peanut Cookies, Drop Biscuits, and Pineapple Bavarian Cream.

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This collection consists of two sets of notes written by James Agee. The first set is his notes and observations on classic poetry. The second consists of two pages and includes ideas for articles on film and literature.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Collection consists of two copies of a typed manuscript by H. R. DeSelm titled "Results from an 1807 Land Survey of Southern Middle Tennessee." The document is a scientific analysis of results from a land survey ordered by the United States Congress in 1807 and includes an abstract, multiple charts and tables, and a list of cited literature. The copies are drafts of the paper, which was published in Castanea in 1994. The event DeSelm wrote about in this...

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Collection contains two postcards sent from Mexico to Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early twentieth century.

One is addressed to Henry W. Curtis and signed by "Lucy." The photo on the postcard shows the Bosque de Chapultepec and is dated 1905. The second postcard is addressed to Mrs. George Temple and signed by "Annie." The photo on the postcard displays the cityscape of Tlalmanalco, Mexico, and appears to have been sent circa 1934.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Collection contains the diary of Thomas Francis Fitzgerald for the calendar year of 1903. Fitzgerald documented some aspects of his life every day of the year with entries regarding the weather, road conditions, people he visited, what he ate for dinner, and anything else he might have done that day. The entries are typically several sentences long. Fitzgerald lived in Knoxville, Tennessee at the time he wrote the diary. The only missing entries are from four days at the beginning of...

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Collection consists of an original document confirming the sale of land (four million acres, much of which already had Cherokee and Creek Indian inhabitants) from the state of Georgia to the Tennessee Company, owned by Zachariah Cox and Matthias Maber. The item was signed on January 24, 1795. It specifies the amount of land and its boundaries, marking beginning and ending areas with waterways like Bear Creek and the Tennessee River.

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Collection consists of an original document confirming the sale of land from the state of Georgia to the Tennessee Company, owned by Zachariah Cox and Matthias Maber. The item was signed on January 24, 1795. It specifies the amount of land and its boundaries, marking starting and ending areas with waterways like the Tennessee River and uses latitude and longitude. The document was created a year and a half before Tennessee became a state.

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Collection consists of an original form from the Tenth Annual East Tennessee Sunday School Convention filled out with information on Haye's Shed, a church in Bradley County, Tennessee. The form asks about attendance and programs the Sunday school offers in order to create a statistical report for the year ending April 15, 1880. Haye's Shed had a total membership of forty-one people, including teachers and students.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Collection contains a mounted photograph of the 1st Tennessee Regiment on board a transport ship. The portraits of two colonels of the 1st Tennessee Regiment, Colonel William Crawford Smith and Colonel Gracey Childers, are inset into the photograph. Beneath the photograph is text that lists the places the regiment went along with dates. It also lists the number of men in the regiment, how many men there were when the transport ships left the United States, how many men came back, and what...

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Collection consists of a single letter written by Mary Coleman of the East Tennessee Automobile Club to Herbert P. Carl regarding the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Coleman's response includes information on the best scenic routes in the Great Smoky Mountains, their composition, and hiking trails in the area.

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The first item in this collection is a broadside entitled Jackson and Decatur featuring the text of letters to Andrew Jackson from Susan Wheeler Decatur (dated January 22, 1828) and John Pine Decatur (dated October 3, 1828). Both letters deny Jackson's supposed threat to Senator John Eppes.

The second item is a letter from John Pine Decatur to Jackson, dated January 21, 1829, offering his condolences on Rachel (Donelson) Jackson's death.

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The first item in this collection is a broadside entitled Jackson and Decatur featuring the text of letters to Andrew Jackson from Susan Wheeler Decatur (dated January 22, 1828) and John Pine Decatur (dated October 3, 1828). Both letters deny Jackson's supposed threat to Senator John Eppes.

The second item is a letter from John Pine Decatur to Jackson, dated January 21, 1829, offering his condolences on Rachel (Donelson) Jackson's death.

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This collection contains a single receipt to Charles B. Howrey from the Whitmore Brothers on September 22, 1866.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains documents relating to bids made by the Tennessee Department of Highways and Public Works from 1927-1931. The documents range from receipts, confirmations, descriptions of materials, approvals, proposals, and other correspondence relating to construction all over the state of Tennessee. Letters to and from local businesses contracted to build highways across the state are all stamped by the department's seal. The collection contains nineteen items varying in page...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Collection consists of a single typed letter written by John B. Brownlow in 1915 addressed to a grandchild of President Andrew Johnson. The letter recounts an event in Knoxville in June 1861 in which a young Brownlow was told by his father, William Gannaway Brownlow, to see Senator Andrew Johnson to safety after learning that the train Johnson was to travel on from Kingston to Knoxville was full of Confederate troops. Brownlow convinced Johnson to travel with him and Johnson made it out of...

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This collection contains the diary of Wesley Smith Dorris, a private in the 30th Tennessee Infantry, Company K. Diary entries date between 1861 and 1863. Some portions, including the beginning pages and cover, are missing. Entries describe the Battle of Fort Henry of 1862, Dorris’ capture, and daily life in prisoner camp.

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A single sketch drawing by Francis Fulkerson Painter. The pencil sketch depicts San Giovanni e Pauli, one of the oldest Christian churches in Rome. The sketch is undated.

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Collection consists of an original document created on March 26, 1796, recording land grants distributed by Greene County in 1795. A total of 85 grants were given out. The document was written by James Stinson under the authority of Colonel Landon Carter.

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Collection contains a single original letter written by Ephraim H. Foster to General William Polk on June 26, 1832. The subject of the letter is Mr. Robert Woods, who collected information for Foster and Polk on an unnamed bank.

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Collection consists of a single original document recording a court complaint from the October 1821 Knox County Court sessions. The financial complaint came from Margaret Ramsey and James W. Craig against Archibald Rhea and Joseph H. Mendle regarding payment for rented property.