Arrangement

The material is arranged alphabetically by title. The videotape and oversized photograph display have been stored separately.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of black-and-white photographic prints of the the Carver, Fairview, Keystone, Memorial Park, and Parkway housing developments. They show construction of the Carver, Fairview, and Keystone developments and include interior views of completed Carver apartments. There is also a photograph of a family standing in front of their newly completed Carver apartment. Images of the Memorial Park development only show aerial views of future site. Images of the Parkway development...

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

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into 16 series.

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The Johnson City Lioness Club Records document the organization from its beginning in 1985 to its final meeting in 2003. Included are newsletters, scrapbook pages, a certificate of organization, and the secretary’s records. The secretary’s records include board meeting minutes, club meeting minutes, membership roster, attendance records, and a guest register.

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

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The Johnson City Mills Records consist of administrative records of the company and include a charter of incorporation with amendments and a volume of minutes of the board of directors. In addition to minutes, the volume contains proxy notices, stockholder reports, and other information documenting the history of the company from 1916 to 1952.

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The Johnson City Power Board Records consist of financial statements, records of disbursements, lists of customers, monthly reports, power distribution monthly reports submitted to the Tennessee Valley Authority, rate schedules, contracts between the utility and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and an analysis of the utility's rates. Most of the records are dated from 1956 to 1980, while a few records are undated.

Scope and Contents The Johnson City Press newsclippings consist of clipped newspaper articles maintained by Johnson City Press staff writers and reporters on local, regional and national topics. Also included are daily and by-line columns of the paper. Lists of articles written on envelopes which contained the clippings have been kept and filed with the appropriate subject. Three oversize folders are listed at the end of the box/folder list. These folders contain clippings removed from the boxes. Each folder...

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

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The collection consists of eighty (80) 13x19 black and white photographic prints made by visiting professor Joshua Greer's advanced photography class. Students chose negatives from the Burr Harrison photographs and restaged the photographs at the original location. Most of the photographs were taken in Johnson City, Tennessee, with a few from Jonesborough, Tennessee and one from Elizabethton, Tennessee.

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The Johnson City Rezoning Collection consists of newspaper clippings, property surveys (blueprint and transparency copies), and a photograph of the Sears department store related to the 1965-1966 rezoning of Roan Street property in Johnson City, Tennessee.

Scope and Contents The Johnson City Sister Cities Program Records document the activities of this local organization to promote cultural understanding between Johnson City and its’ sister city of Guaranda, Ecuador and, in doing this, to promote a broader understanding and interaction between the American people and people in other countries in the world. Travel of representatives between the two cities, student exchange programs, and the development of the Guaranda Friendship Garden in Johnson City are among...

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

Abstract

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

Arrangement

The collection is divided into two series: Series 1, Scrapbooks, 1939-77; and Series 2, Other Materials, 1914-81 and undated.

Scope and Contents The Johnson City-Washington County Family Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, financial statements, articles of incorporation and by-laws, statistics and reports, photographs, ephemeral publications, and a video tape. The records reflect the organization and day-to-day operation of the Y.M.C.A. in Johnson City and Washington County, Tennessee. The files also include the records and materials supporting special programs and classes offered to...

Arrangement

Files are arranged in alphabetical order by subject content with the scrapbook stored in an oversized box. Note: Hunt's book "Recovering the Sacred: Papers from the Sanctuary and the Academy" and a biography of Hunt written by James C. Logan titled "A Charge to Keep: The Life of Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr." were removed and have been cataloged into Special Collections.

Arrangement

The scrapbooks are arranged in chronological order.

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Stephen Johnson recorded most of the content in this collection, primarily at bluegrass festivals that took place in the eastern United States. The Graves Mountain Festival of Music is heavily featured as is musician Tony Rice.

Scope and Contents The Willard and Geneva Johnson Video Tape consists of an interview from October 24, 1995 with Roan Mountain residents Geneva Johnson (b. April 2, 1919) and Willard Johnson (b. March 3, 1917) for the Hidden Heroines project. Geneva and Willard discuss many aspects of their lives in rural Tennessee during the early and mid 20th century. The topics are wide ranging but include their work and marriage, the murder of Geneva’s father, farming, folk remedies (including whiskey as a cure for measles...

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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, Jones Family Papers, 1860-1928, and Series 2, Wagner Family Papers, 1890-1930. Each series is further divided into subseries. Folders within each subseries are arranged chronologically.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into five series as follows: Series 1, Office Files, 1924-2002 and undated; Series 2, Scrapbooks, 1934-2002 and undated; Series 3, Historical Newspapers, 1889-2002; Series 4, Memorabilia, c. 1930s-2000 and undated; and Series 5, Negatives and Photographs, 1894-c. 1990 and undated.

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This collection consists of ninety-three almanacs and thirty-four scrapbooks. The almanacs were published from 1849 to 1929, by a variety of companies and organizations involved in farming, health, literature, medicine, religion, etc. The scrapbooks are items clipped from newspapers, magazines, and books glued in old books. The scrapbooks were given numbers and a completion date by Jones.

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

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The Jonesboro Woman's Christian Temperance Union Minute Book consists of a single bound volume that contains the minutes and constitution of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Jonesboro. There are also some clippings concerning temperance issues which were found tucked inside the volume.

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The Jonesborough (Tennessee) Board of Mayor and Aldermen Minute Book consists of one bound minute book containing (1) a list of forty-nine previously adopted ordinances and bylaws which were ratified and confirmed by the board elected on April 5, 1906, and (2) minutes of meetings of the board of mayor and aldermen from April 16, 1906 through April 11, 1910. A subject index is recorded at the front of the minute book.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in five series: Series 1, Personal Papers, 1908-1990s, undated; Series 2, Newspaper Articles and Printed Materials, 1930s-1990, undated; Series 3, Photographs, Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures; Series 4, Plaques; and Series 5, Oversized Materials.

Scope and Contents The Joseph Hall Collection focuses primarily on Hall’s research of language and folklore of the people living in the Great Smoky Mountains. The bulk of the papers result from Hall’s fieldwork dating from 1937-1941 and include notebooks; notes on index cards; reel-to-reel tape recorded interviews; transcripts; typed manuscripts derived from the interviews; photographs; and slides. The field recordings and related materials document the Appalachian dialect, including word meaning and usage...