Archives of Appalachia

Arrangement The collection is arranged alphabetically by subject or document type in a single series.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia created or collected by John Goodin. There is a particular emphasis on Goodin’s World War II military service with the United States Army, including correspondence from friends and family at home in East Tennessee. Goodin was also a railroad enthusiast and collected photographs and railroad ephemera, especially that of the Clinchfield Railroad and other Southeastern United States rail lines. Other Goodin family members are...

Arrangement Material is organized as a single series and is arranged first alphabetically by subject or material type and then chronologically with undated material following dated material.

Arrangement The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by subject heading.

Arrangement All or part of the materials described here are unprocessed. Please contact us for information about these materials.

Scope and Contents The Grandparents Oral History Project began as a result of a conference that Andrew Johnson Elementary School (Kingsport, Tennessee) teacher Betty White attended at ETSU in October 1976. Guest speaker Alex Haley told how the saga of Roots would have gone unwritten if he had not taken the time to sit on the front steps of his grandmother’s home as she recalled stories from his family's past. He reminded the group that now was the time to start collecting local and family histories before they...

Scope and Contents The typescript is a photocopy of the folk tale "Granny Hackle" about a medicine woman in East Tennessee.

Arrangement The papers are arranged alphabetically by subject and filed chronologically with undated material following dated material.

Arrangement All or part of the materials described here are unprocessed. Please contact us for information about these materials.

Arrangement All or part of the materials described here are unprocessed. Please contact us for information about these materials.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of recordings of interviews conducted by Gunter's students in connection with his courses on social geography. The interview subjects are primarily from East Tennessee and often discuss topics of regional interest such as music, farm life, coal mining, and foodways. The collection also includes dub sheets for the first eight tapes, partial transcripts of tapes 2, 5 and 6, and summaries of interviews.

Scope and Contents The Guy Despard Goff Collection consist of three bound volumes of typescript copies of correspondence, telegrams, and letters of congratulations related to Goff’s military and political career during and following World War I. Volume I consist of typescripts of personal letters written by Goff to his wife, Anne Baker Goff, between January and July 1919, when he was serving in France on the legal staff of American General John J. Pershing. The letters are edited versions of the...

Scope and Contents The H. Phil Carr Family Papers consist of a rental agreement, deed abstract, and an indenture documenting the sale and purchase of Washington County property by the Carr family between 1792 and 1949. The rental agreement, dating April 15, 1900, documents the use of land on Cherokee Creek by J. S. Love and G. W. Greene.

Arrangement All or part of the materials described here are unprocessed. Please contact us for information about these materials.

Arrangement The records are arranged into three series, as follows: Series 1, Office Files, 1925-1981 and undated, Boxes 1-2 and oversized folder 1; Series 2, Ledgers, 1944-1980, oversized Box 3-4; and Series 3, Photographs, undated, Small Photograph Collection Box 7.

Arrangement The collection is arranged as one series in alphabetical order by subject heading.

Arrangement Sub-Group 1 is arranged into 20 series organized by the records of the various individual companies as well as the Harris Foundation established by the Harris family. Photographs and film related to these enterprises has been housed in a separate Series 20. The Sub-Group 1 series are as follows: Series 1, Harris Manufacturing Company Records, 1903-1990 and undated; Series 2, Harris Flooring Company Records, 1912-1984 and undated; Series 3, Harris Hardwood Company Records, 1919-1984 and undated;...

Arrangement Arranged by location and subject, alphabetically.

Arrangement The papers are arranged chronologically in a single folder.

Scope and Contents The Burr Harrison Photographs consist of 380 photographic images (prints and negatives) depicting Johnson City and environs circa 1881-1958. The collection represents only a portion of Harrison's work, as much of it did not survive. The collection centers on photographs of commercial buildings in downtown Johnson City; industries, residences, apartment houses and churches in the city; buildings and activities at Mountain Home; and buildings at East Tennessee State Normal School (ETSNS). Some of...

Scope and Contents The Harvey Lee Hughett Collection consists of 120 reel-to-reel tape recordings made between 1950 and 1977 of religious meetings at various East Tennessee churches, singing, "homecomings," folk music, and informal interviews with rural people.

Scope and Contents The Hassinger Lumber Company Collection consists of one VHS-videotape (70 minutes) on the history of the company (1880-1928), its lumber business in Pennsylvania and Virginia and involvement in the construction of rail lines in the latter state.

Scope and Contents The papers of William Cary Hattan focus primarily on his career as a railroad engineer and on his personal involvement in the construction of two railroads in the early 20th century: the Western Maryland Railway, which operated between Baltimore and Pittsburgh, and the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway (commonly known as the Clinchfield Railroad), which connected the coal fields of Southern Appalachia with the Atlantic coast ports, crossing the very difficult terrain of the Appalachian...

Arrangement All or part of the materials described here are unprocessed. Please contact us for information about these materials.

Arrangement The collection is arranged into two series, Series 1: Business Papers and Series 2: Personal Papers. The bulk of the material includes architectural drawings of private, commercial, and public buildings located in Series 1: Business Papers.

Oversized material is located in Box 5 and in the map cabinets.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, news clippings, photographs, sheet music, original music compositions, audio recordings, book manuscripts, drafts of publications, short stories, poems, and original publications documenting the literary and personal career of Hazel Scott Craft, an East Tennessee poet and author.

Scope and Contents The Helen Bullard Collection consists of two microfilm reels containing images of meeting agenda and minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newsclippings, subject files, a grant proposal, and miscellaneous papers. The material documents Bullard's activities as a Tennessee artist and the writing of her book. In addition, the papers describe other types of handicraft work encountered in the Southeastern United Sates.

Scope and Contents The Elizabeth Jobe Henley Collection consists of correspondence, receipts, an agreement, and a reprint copy of a Confederate $1000 bond that were collected by the Henley family. The early correspondence describes Luther R. Henley's experiences as a soldier during the Mexican-American War and the receipts document many of his acquisitions while an East Tennessee farmer. The agreement describes the personal property that was to be acquired by Elizabeth J. Henley after her second husband's death.

Arrangement All or part of the materials described here are unprocessed. Please contact us for information about these materials.

Arrangement The negatives and contact prints were assigned Appalachian Photographic Archives numbers, 986 through 1029, which correspond with items 1 through 44 in the Blackwell Collection. The negatives and contact prints are arranged accoridng to these numbers.