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This collection consists primarily of the administrative correspondence that University of Tennessee Provost George W. Wheeler generated during his term in office. Other correspondence shows Wheeler's chairmanship of the Southeastern Universities Research Association's Board of Trustees.

This collection contains a transcription of a letter written by Pyrrhus Joseph (P.J.) Neil, in 1868, to his father, John Harvey McKinley Neil while P.J. was a student at East Tennessee University. The image at the bottom of the letter is of P.J.'s grandfather, along with two brothers, who came to Knox County from Ireland in the late 1700's.

This collection contains scrapbooks and subject files documenting Ralph Frost's work at the University of Tennessee.

In this 23 page publication draft, the author describes a plan to develop the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's library system.

This collection houses a variety of materials documenting student activities and organizations at the University of Tennessee between 1838 and 1991.

This collection includes drawings, notes, wood blocks, plans, and other materials relating to Dr. Reinhold Nordsieck's research into the staging of the Passion Play at Bozen in 1514. Also included in the collection: German and American newspapers; a leaf from a Persian manuscript, possibly from the late 16th century; and three folia from a monastic antiphonal, probably created in the 15th century.

This collection houses budget information, research proposals, activities summaries, and other materials documenting research centers at the University of Tennessee.

This collection consists primarily of records of the profits, sales, and expenditures of the University of Tennessee's rhenium extraction project. Other materials include research on rhenium and information about a scholarship fund set up for graduate students in the area of rhenium chemistry.

This collection contains the manuscript of Richard David Present's book, Kinetic Theory of Gases, reprints of journal articles by Present and other physicists, and class notes from Physics classes taught by Present at the University of Tennessee.

This collection consists of six letters concerning a faculty position at East Tennessee University. In the first letter Dr. Richard Currey submits his letter of intent to Joseph Estabrook. The other letters concern recommendations on behalf of Richard Currey.

The bulk of these photographs depict the Carnicus events held at the University of Tennessee in 1958 and 1959. Other images show All Sing (1958) and the UT Band.

This collection consists of several early and published versions of Robert Drake essays on author Flannery O'Connor.

This collection houses photographs of the University of Tennessee campus dating from approximately the 1950s. The subjects depicted include a parade, Carnicus performances, a mock trial scene, and the front of the Alumni Memorial Building with banners advertising student government candidates.

In these letters, Omar Bradley, Douglas MacArthur, Clarence Brown, Estes Kefauver, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Dwight D. Eisenhower respond to Andy Holt's invitation to serve on the Advisory Committee of the Robert R. Neyland Academic Scholarship Fund.

This collection consists primarily of publications, drafts, correspondence, student papers, reference materials, reel-to-reel tapes, and other documents showing Robert S. Hartman's study of such subjects as profit sharing, philosophy, and axiology. Other materials document his career as a Professor at the University of Tennessee, the University of Mexico, Ohio State University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The bulk of this collection is made up of 129 ink sketches on the backs of index cards (most including the plant name) and full-page ink drawings showing the different species of Camellis plants. These materials also include notes concerning Thompson's drawings, correspondence from various magazine publishers about drawings that Thompson submitted to them, a collection of magazine articles and images created by Thompson, and three issues of Home Gardening including Thompson's work.

This collection houses three certificates of distinction presented by the University of Tennessee's Classical Department (dated 1879, 1880, and 1881), a report of grades (dated January 19, 1882), and a portrait photograph (dated April 25, 1919) documenting Rogers Van Gilder of Knoxville, Tennessee.

This collection houses materials documenting the murder of University of Tennessee graduate Sam Y. Parker by Judge James E. Fulton of Helenwood, Tennessee in 1906. Newspaper clippings and correspondence between the trial lawyers document the entire saga in detail. Other material includes research into the history of the Newman and Parker families, a Civil War diary, photographs, a family Bible, mementos, and personal items.

The School of Advertising and Public Relations completed this Academic Program Review in 2004.