Overview

These photographs were originally contained in a single family album and include fifteen tintypes, twelve carte de visite photographs, and a 1” by 1 ½” photograph mounted on card stock.

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The 19th century Tennessee Photographers Collection, ca. 1850-1900, consists of 177 photographs taken by photographers throughout Tennessee during the second half of the 19th century. The majority of these photographs are of unidentified subjects.

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This collection contains eight 19th century photographs of twenty-one unidentified persons taken by several Tennessee photographers.

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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.

Abstract This collection contains three photographs of Carolyn P. Brown, her daughter Alice, and her adopted daughter/granddaughter Marshall. None of these photos are dated, but the names of the individuals pictured in them are written on the back of two pieces of the collection. Carolyn P. Brown lived in Knoxville, Tennessee and married her second husband, John Scruggs Brown, in 1900. Upon her death, the trust fund given to her by her husband upon his death was used to establish the Carolyn P. Brown...

Abstract This collection consists of 55 photographs of African-Americans in the Knoxville, Tenn. area during the early 20th century. Many are of Dr. Charles S. Boyd, his dental office, and his family. Others include other individual or group portraits and school photographs. Most of the photographs are either mounted for framing or enclosed in the paper envelopes provided by the photographer. Several include writing on them identifying the individual(s) shown and/or the studio that created the image....

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Collection consists of a single photograph of Louis Bailey Audigier taken by Earle Harrison.

Abstract Seven photographs from Memphis and Chattanooga, TN dating to the early 20th century. The photographs include a group shot of the Tennessee Order of Royal Arcanum from Hohenwald, Tenn. in 1910; two portraits of unnamed women; two children dated 1901; a portrait of Rose Carter; a group of four women, including Rose Carter; and a picture of three men on Lookout Mountain. Photographers include the Bingham Brothers of Memphis, Tenn.; W. P. Young of Columbia, Tenn.; and the Hardie Bros. of Sunset...

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This collection contains three mounted cabinet card photographs taken by the company McCrary & Branson in Knoxville, Tennessee. The photos are of individual portraits of three different men. One photo has handwriting on the back, labeling the subject "Rev Stuart (singer at Camp Meeting)." Another is identified as "Etcel - noted evangelist." The third portrait does not have any identifying material.

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This collection houses a number of studio portraits taken by O. L. Hensley in Jonesboro, Tennessee. Although none of the images are identified, a few seem to have been used as samples in Hensley's business.

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Collection contains a single portrait taken by the photographer A. T. Hunt in Knoxville, Tennessee. The portrait is of a man wearing a military uniform, but his identity and the date of the photograph are unknown. Hunt's address is printed in gold type on the back of the photograph as "No. 13 Gay St, Knoxville, Tenn."

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This collection contains two cabinet cards with portraits taken at Rhodes Studio in Greeneville, Tennessee. One photo depicts a man and a woman, and the other depicts two children.