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This collection contains a single stereoview photograph of Andrew Johnson's Greeneville, Tennessee office taken on August 3, 1875, three days after Johnson's death.

Typescript of an article documenting Sterling Blankenship's account of his submarine activities during World War II in the South Pacific.

This collection houses two boarding account ledgers documenting the Steward's Hall between 1890 and 1892.

Stewart Lillard assembled this collection of University of Tennessee memorabilia dating from the early 1910s to 1929. It includes a 1918 commencement invitation and program, a 1911-1912 student directory, a 1929 program for the Tau Beta Phi Installation Banquet, and a copy of Press Bulletin No. 9, Liming Soils.

The collection contains a single letter, written to Johan (?) Graf from the Stifel & Pfeiffer Brewery in Nashville, Tennessee (January 15, 1873). The letter appears on the brewery's letterhead and is written entirely in German. The contents concern a (potential?) business deal and the price of selling beer to and in Knoxville.

This book describes the World War II activities of the 33rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron. The author, J. B. Woodson, Jr., was a Photo Lab Technician of the squadron.

This undated stereoview photograph pictures the Strawberry Plains Bridge during the Civil War. Also seen are the ruins of a nearby house and a soldier standing guard.

Letter written during Reconstruction by Stuart County, Tenn. resident in 1867. The letter inquires about the whereabouts Charly and Ada, two individuals the writer has failed to locate. The letter appears to be written by a family member, as the writer re-counts who has been married, jailed, and other local happenings.

The first section of this collection houses the excuses that students submitted to explain their absence from either class or chapel. Some claimed the standard excuse of illness, while others were considerably more creative. The second section houses correspondence documenting the Maude Powell Student Aid Fund and the Student Aid Committee.

This collection is composed primarily of newspaper articles (taken mainly from the Daily Beacon and the Knoxville News-Sentinel) documenting student organizations, publications, fraternities and sororities, and Senior Gift. The Senior Gift is further documented with several pamphlets. Additionally, the collection houses information showing student participation in and service to the community.

This collection houses the minutes of the Student Council of the Honor System dating from January 19, 1917 to February 27, 1918.

In this letter to her third cousin John Bell Brownlow, Sue L. Clotworthy outlines the genealogy of their mothers' families (primarily the Gaines and the Taylors), which connects them to Presidents Zachary Taylor and James Madison. She also discusses the importance of genealogy, which can even "trace our Gaines line [...]" to him, Adam and to royalty.

A single copy of John Routh's senior research project, "Sui Generis: The Experience Shared by the Students of the John Randolph Neal College of Law." In the project, Routh discusses students who attended the John Randolph Neal College of Law.

This collection contains items related to the Summer School of the South, run by the University of Tennessee from 1902 to 1918. The collection is divided into five series: Summer School of the South Materials; Correspondence; Business and Administrative Materials; Lecturer and Entertainer Materials; and Oversize Materials.

This collection houses reports and proposals discussing the feasibility of locating a superconducting super collider in Tennessee. The first section consists of 22 reports issued by the State of Tennessee. The second section houses 23 volumes printed by the Department of Energy concerning the super collider's environmental impact on the region. The third section is composed of reports from the Universities Research Association appraising and supporting the collider project.

The Susie Gentry Papers, ca. 1908-1985, is a series of letters and genealogical records about Tennessee soldiers of the War of 1812 (and of the Revolutionary War) and their descendents. It contains 38 items, mostly from the 1910's, including letters, a ledger, and family lines.

This collection contains research, transcriptions of interviews, correspondence, licenses, land grants, wills, deeds, blueprints, and maps documenting Swiss settlement in Tennessee and Kentucky during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

This collection consists of two court letterbooks for Judge Sylvester Bailey of Memphis containing copies of his correspondence between March 5, 1845-September 4, 1851.

These three papers were presented at the Symposium on Technology, Society and the Common Good: The Energy Question held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on October 29-30, 1979.