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This circular provides “facts and figures showing why the voters of Knox County should vote for the subscription of $100,000 at the election, Saturday, October 29.” Specifically, it lists the assessed valuation for each district in Knox County and compares the needed tax to the potential gains in markets and other value.

The ledger in this collection is for a carriage business near Franklin and Otego, New York in the 1860s and 1870s. Services listed are for repairs, painting, trimming, and other work on carriages, buggies, and wagons. Customers listed are found on the 1875 New York state census in Franklin and nearby Otego, New York.

This collection is a letter from Carrie S. Hall, addressed to her "Dear Cousin," dated from Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 8, 1897.

This collection contains letters, land grants, financial papers, announcements, speeches, reports, and magazines documenting the Carriger, Lenoir, and Welcker families in Tennessee and North Carolina during the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.

This handwritten trial docket book records cases from September 1822 to March 1830 in Carroll County, TN.

This collection contains papers documenting the World War II service of Carroll G. Wright. Included are five letters written from Wright to his wife Elaine; a telegram to Elaine declaring Wright missing in action, and a copy of a newspaper article regarding Wright’s missing-in-action status and likelihood of death following the attack on his ship, the USS Franklin.

This collection contains the research materials and drafts for Valley So Wild: A Folk History by Alberta and Carson Brewer and articles/columns for Knoxville News-Sentinel by or about Carson Brewer.

Carson Brewer wrote these columns for the Knoxville News-Sentinel on such subjects as Knoxville, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the people and communities of the Smoky Mountains region, and the Tennessee Valley Authority between the 1940s and the 1980s.

This collection contains 45 items, mainly articles written by Carson Brewer for the Knoxville News-Sentinel from 1959 to 1992. Most of the articles contain local stories about history and people's experiences or activities.

A single carte de visite depicting Abraham Lincoln. Mathew Brady made the original portrait that serves as the foundation of this carte de visite. Either Brady or another photographer added a dark wreath around the image, likely on the occasion of Lincoln's assassination.

This carte de visite is a commercial reproduction of a portrait of W. G. Brownlow.

This book contains a list of the Carthage Female Academy's original stockholders and records of monetary transactions documenting the Academy's finances from 1843 to 1845.

This collection contains a letter and three receipts documenting purchases from the Carver Wagon Company in Morristown, Tennessee made in 1918, 1924, and 1940.

The Cary G. Branch Papers, 1948-1992, consists of three series and a variety of documents: travel journals, undated photographs, letters, and a notebook of collected writings and clippings. Included in the journals is an account of Branch's trip to Nashville and Knoxville.

Collection consists of a single photograph of Cas Walker. It is signed by Walker above text that reads "Cas Walker the 'Ole Coon Hunter.'" The photo is undated. The address and telephone number for David's Music Barn in Powell, Tenn., is printed on the photograph as well.

This collection includes genealogical information and histories of various Tennessee families. The family surnames include: West, Hadley, Stout, Kelly, and Roberts. The collection also includes a Roberts Family attendee list for Washington Presbyterian Church of Corryton, Knox County, Tennessee. The papers include days of birth and death, titles, and places of residence within the family histories. Family origins and members are also listed in chronological order.

Two of these letters, both addressed to an unknown recipient, concern subscriptions to the Weekly Globe. The third (dated 1843) is addressed to John H. Caustine and concerns fees for dealing with spoliation claims.

This collection contains two letters written by Cave Johnson to the editor of The Globe in Washington City regarding his subscription to that newspaper.

This collection consists of 12 photographs of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Chapman 1460, located near Sevierville, Tenn. Photographs depict the camp buildings and the people who worked there.