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This diary was kept by Julia Frances Hammond Spring and covers a period from 1852-1878. Much in the diary is of a religious nature, regarding the Methodist Church, mentions of preachers, and sermons. Also in the collection is another handwritten book that appears to be her daughter's first school exercise book.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collecton contains a small ledger with handwritten records of visits and medical care by I. C. Brown who worked as a physician for the early years of his career in Philadelphia, Tennessee. The ledger lists names, visit summaries and brief treament descriptions, and prices charged. Visits are listed by date, then the name of the person requesting treatment or possibly the head of household, followed in parentheses by the relation of the patient to the named person; for example, ...

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This collection contains an accounting book for William R. Brown’s tanyard in Greeneville, Tennessee from the 1850s to the 1880s. The book starts out listing business transactions by date but quickly switches to lists of items and services under individual names.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection includes twenty-one sepia portraits of Nashville-area members of the Knights Templar, an order of the Freemasons, taken sometime between 1867 and 1877. The photos were produced at the studio of C. C. Giers, and feature red hand-tinted details as well as the name of each man on the reverse. This set of sepia portrait photographs (circa 1867-1877) depicts twenty-one Freemasons from Nashville and the surrounding areas. Each man is dressed in mason regalia, with red...

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This notebook contains the handwritten business notes for the Rogersville National Bank, including the Articles of Association in 1889, meeting minutes, resolutions, the notes for selling the assets and land of the bank in 1902, and ephemera.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This notebook contains the handwritten business notes for the Rogersville National Bank, including the Articles of Association in 1889, meeting minutes, resolutions, the notes for selling the assets and land of the bank in 1902, and ephemera.

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This collection consists of a signed copy of a sixty-page article on the early education of American economist Frank Knight, written by Donald Dewey while he was Professor of Economics at Columbia University.