Edward D. Cross Scrapbooks

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0511

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Edward D. Cross Collection consists of 85 scrapbooks compiled by the donor. The scrapbooks contain clippings from newspapers and popular magazines, photographs, stamps, correspondence, currency, obituaries, postcards, brochures, tickets, membership cards, licenses, formal announcements, and other printed ephemera. Some of the items pasted in the scrapbooks are undated, but the dated items are from the period 1901 to 1993. There are also some World War II-era German photographs and postcards.

Dates

1901-1994

Creator

Cross, Edward Dallas, 1907-2000 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

9.00 linear feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order. The titles on the scrapbooks are Cross' own.

Method of Acquisition

The Edward D. Cross Collection was donated to the Archives of Appalachia on October 27, 1997, by Edward D. Cross. Gene Morrell contributed the photographs and postcards in August 2011, accession number 2014-044.

Processing Information

Ned Irwin completed processing, and the collection was opened to researchers in November 1997. Haley Davis completed the index to the collection December 2001.

Subjects

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Caricatures and cartoons Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Sullivan County (Tenn.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Wit and humor Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
World War, 1939-1945 Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source