Charles Edwin Price Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0359

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Charles Edwin Price Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts (primarily in typescript), notes, photographs and slides, oral history interviews (audio cassettes) and transcripts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting Price's research and writing interests. Such interests include the 1916 elephant hanging in Erwin, Tenn., the John Sevier Center fire in Johnson City, Tenn. (1989), and Appalachian ghost stories and ghostlore among others.

Dates

1916-1992 and undated

Creator

Price, Charles Edwin (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The papers are open for research.

Extent

2.00 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series: Series 1, Correspondence, 1990-91; Series 2, Publications, 1986-91; Series 3, Research Files, 1916-91 and undated; Series 4, Writings, c. 1988-1992 and undated; and Series 5, Oral History Interviews, 1986-1990 and undated.

Method of Acquisition

The Charles Edwin Price Papers were donated to the Archives of Appalachia between 1990-92 by Charles Edwin Price, Erwin, Tenn., and opened to researchers in August 1997.

Processing Information

Ned Irwin completed processing in 1997.

Subjects

Big Mary (Elephant) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Birdwell family
Erwin (Tenn.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Folklore -- Appalachian Region, Southern Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
John Sevier Center (Johnson City, Tenn.)
Johnson City (Tenn.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Personal papers Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Publications (document genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Supernatural Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Unicoi County (Tenn.)--History Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source