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This collection houses the Tennessee Valley Authority's records of graves removed before the construction of the Norris Dam in East Tennessee, the first major project of the TVA.

This collection houses over 300 pamphlets describing the TVA's activities between 1933 and 1965.

This is a collection of 18 black and white photographs taken by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The photographs mainly depict construction sites and equipment and are dated circa 1942. Only one photograph includes identifying information; this photograph shows the beginning construction of Douglas Dam.

This collection houses 23 photographs documenting the Tennessee Valley Authority between 1933 and 1957. These images depict such subjects as TVA facilities (including Norris Dam and the phosphorus plant at Wilson Dam in Alabama), signs, and employees.

This collection houses reports (many originally intended for use only within the TVA), summaries, articles, and a thesis documenting the activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority between 1933 and 1973.

This collection includes two copies of the Tennessee Volunteers Basketball Schedule for 1945-46. This schedule includes a group photograph of the team, a photograph of the head coach John Mauer, a schedule of games, a color advertisement for Coca-Cola, a blank scoresheet, and a guide to referee's signals.

The Tennessee Waltz is a popular country music song written by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King in December 1946. The song, made famous by Patti Page in 1950, would later become one of Tennessee’s official state songs. The manuscript is a handwritten lead sheet composed on a piece of music paper and includes penciled-in substitutions for lyrics in the bridge.

This collection consists of the minutes taken from the Tennessee Woman's Press and Authors' Club meetings from 1913-1921. Also included are newspaper articles regarding activities of the club.

A manuscript written by Ross M. Cunningham on the topic of state control and promotion of marketing in Tennessee. Cunningham presented this paper to the Tennessee State Planning Commission on December 9, 1936.

This collection houses photographs of the interiors and exteriors of ten buildings on Terrace Avenue that the University of Tennessee purchased and subsequently destroyed.

This collection houses correspondence, financial information, and histories documenting the activities of the Texas Association for Radiation Research (TARR) between 1968 and 1986.

This collection houses a 1989 plan for a Textile Development Center.

In this letter, Thad Roberts of the 148th New York Infantry writes home to cos. Roberts discusses the spread of disease through Nashville, Tennessee where the 148th is stationed. He also mentions the conditions of the regiment's weapons as well as their prisoner of war and death counts.

The official 1951 British pressbook for the movie The African Queen, this pressbook contains blurbs about the actors, pre-written press stories and advance reviews, advance proofs, and publicity displays like posters, banners, and life-size cut-outs from the British Lion Film Corporation.

This collection houses three poems by Milford E. Shields entitled 'The Declaration of Independence,' 'The Constitution,' and 'The Flag.' Together, they form Shields' "American Triad."

This collection includes a bound unpublished version of James Atkins Shackford's "The Autobiography of David Crockett."

This mimeographed sheet features the lyrics of the theme song to the 1954 Disney television mini-series entitled Davy Crockett. The mimeograph was handed out to every student in Mrs. Delozier's sixth grade class at the Sam Houston School in Maryville, Tennessee, where the donor was a student in the 1955-1956 school year.

In this manuscript, Dixie Lee McCrary enumerates some of John Nicholas Beal's descendants, focusing primarily on Beal's son, also named John, who settled in Hawkins County, Tennessee in the early 1900s. McCrary draws on public and church records from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee and includes photocopies of some of these documents in her final work. This manuscript was later published as The Beals of Hawkins County.

In this master's thesis, Robert A. Ellis Jr. explores the Bijou Theatre's historical significance to Knoxville and East Tennessee.