Lee R. Herndon Chapter, Tennessee Ornithological Society Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects the activities and interests of the Lee R. Herndon Chapter in ornithology and wildlife and the natural environment in general. Material in the collection includes administrative and subject files, correspondence, reports, minutes of club meetings, annual records of bird sightings, a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous publications, and photographic slides of birds, plants, and nature scenes.
Dates
- 1944 - 2014
Creator
- Tennessee Ornithological Society. Lee R. Herndon Chapter (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to research.
Extent
5.50 linear feet (2 legal-size document boxes and 3 flat boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into three series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files; Series 2, Ledger and Scrapbook; and Series 3, Photographic Slides.
Method of Acquisition
On October 19, 1994, Lois M. Herndon, Elizabethton, Tenn., made the original donation (a collection of her husband Lee R. Herndon’s nature slides) to the Archives of Appalachia on behalf of the local chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society named for him. Additional material was donated to the archives on behalf of the society on June 15, 1995 by Beth Hogan, Johnson City, Tenn.; on July 3, 1995 by Charles Moore and Martha Dillenbeck, Johnson City, Tenn.; on November 29, 1995, July 15, 1996, July 15, 2010 and April 23, 2015 by Charles Moore.
Separated Materials
The Kestrel, the newsletter of the Lee R. Herndon Chapter, Tennessee Ornithological Society, is filed in the Appalachian Publications Vertical Files and is not a part of this collection.
Processing Information
Kathy Cuff completed processing the collection in April 2008.
- Bird populations -- Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bird watching -- Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Birds -- Tennessee Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Corporation records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Ledgers (account books) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Personal papers Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Publications (document genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Scrapbooks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Slides (photographs) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Wild flowers--Pictorial works Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
344 J.L. Seehorn Jr. Rd.
Johnson City TN 37614 USA
423-439-4338
423/439-4338
archives@etsu.edu