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Appy (Appalachian) League Logbook Tapes

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0473
Arrangement

The Appy League Logbook Tapes consist of two audiocassettes of the 1995 entries. Tape 1 contains entries 1 through 18, while Tape 2 contains entries 19 through 30.

Dates: 1995

Archives of Appalachia and University Archives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UnivRec-0237
Abstract

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

Dates: 1977-1986

Anne W. Armstrong Typescript: Of Time and Knoxville

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: AppMs-0097
Scope and Contents

The Anne W. Armstrong Collection contains a copy of a typescript of an unpublished manuscript entitled "Of Time and Knoxville, Fragment of an Autobiography" written by Armstrong. The manuscript was written sometime between 1947 and 1958 recounts Armstrong's view of growing up in Knoxville in 1880s and 1890s. The dates of the account are 1885 through 1902.

Dates: 1947-1958

College of Arts and Sciences Promotional Tapes

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: UnivRec-0443
Scope and Contents The College of Arts and Sciences Promotional Tapes consists of four 3/4" videotapes of interviews with various persons in the East Tennessee State University community and the Johnson City, Tennessee community concerning the value of a liberal arts education along with one 3/4" videotape of upper and middle class homes within the Johnson City area. The first four videotapes include interviews with Dr. Dorothy C. Dobbins, associate dean, College of Medicine, Student Affairs, ETSU (length:...
Dates: 1990

Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Records

 Collection
Identifier: UnivRec-0169
Scope and Contents The Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Records contain proposal drafts and minutes of the Curriculum and Calendar Conversion Committees; incoming and outgoing correspondence, newsletters, and announcements relating to other campus offices and educational agencies; student requests to drop classes; and degree descriptions for various departments. The records date from 1977-79, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978-79. The original acquisition contained 1.25 linear feet of faculty...
Dates: 1977-1979

Richard Cartwright Austin Papers

 Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: AppMs-0077
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Richard Cartwright Austin's dissertation, a complete run of the Appalachian Strip Mining Information Service (ASMIS) newsletters, a partial draft of Austin's book Spoil and various serials containing articles written by Austin.

Dates: 1966-2007

Autobiography, or Memoirs of Dr. A. Jobe

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: AppMs-0464
Scope and Contents The Autobiography, or Memoirs of Dr. A. Jobe consists of an original bound volume; a poem and a letter found inside the volume; photocopies of two documents about Dr. Abraham Jobe and his autobiography; and a photocopy of a typed transcript of the autobiography. Dr. Jobe wrote his memoirs between 1849 and 1904 to document his youth in Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama; his medical and surgical practice in northwestern North Carolina and northeast Tennessee; and his Civil War...
Dates: 1849-1904, 1948, 1962, 1972

B. Carroll Reece Museum Records

 Collection
Identifier: UnivRec-0273
Scope and Contents

The B. Carroll Reece Museum Records consist of administrative files; correspondence; exhibit files and research; photographs; grant applications and other material relating to the development and evolution of the museum.

Dates: 1958 - 2009

A.C. Bailey Sound Recording

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0525
Scope and Contents The A.C. Bailey Sound Recording is an audiocassette with 12 tracks of music performed by A.C. Bailey. According to Arnold Bailey, many of the songs were written by his father. Intro and Amazing Grace Ain't Gonna Pick Anymore Cotton Talk About Your Troubles Was I On the Road Too Long Thank the Lord That I Am Able To Pray ...
Dates: undated

Bailey Family Photographs

 Collection — Item: 1
Identifier: AppMs-0812
Scope and Contents

The Bailey Family Photographs consist of 40 scans of images depicting the Bailey family and other residents of Lost Cove, North Carolina in the years immediately before and after the town was abandoned. The images are primarily black-and-white photographs.

Dates: circa 1950-1969

Randy Ball Collection (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0614
Abstract

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

Dates: 1898

Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and Tillman Cadle Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0347
Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection is 567 field recordings, most on lacquer discs, made by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and Tillman Cadle of music, stories, and speech in New York City, Florida, Georgia, the Bahamas, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee during collecting trips between 1935 and 1950. The recordings document both African-American and Anglo-American folk culture.Supporting materials include a 1989 interview with Tillman Cadle, tape logs, photographs, song lyrics and the disc...
Dates: 1935 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1950

Elise Draper Barrette Papers

 Collection
Identifier: UnivRec-0542
Scope and Contents

The Elise Draper Barrette Papers document Barrette's work as a librarian and as director of the library science program at East Tennessee State College (later East Tennessee State University). Material includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, writings, and school-related papers. Major subjects encompassed by the papers include Barrette's academic work at ETSU, library science institutes for training school librarians, and her work as a library consultant.

Dates: 1931-1994, undated

Barrus Family Genealogy

 Collection — Box: I (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0594
Scope and Contents

The Barrus Family Genealogy consists of a letter to Anna Louise Ward from her aunt, Anna Cadle, and a small bound notebook containing the genealogy of John Barrowe (Barrowes/Barrus) from England, written by Anna Cadle.

Dates: January 1922

Colin F. Baxter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UnivRec-0592
Scope and Contents

The Colin F. Baxter Collection consists of 36 undated illustrated posters (mounted) documenting events during World War II such as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war in Europe, the war in North Africa, and the war in the Pacific.

Dates: undated

Franklin P. Baxter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0175
Scope and Contents The Franklin P. Baxter Papers include numerous commercial publications in several different languages, legal documents, correspondence, reports, pamphlets, and a periodical documenting the diverse collecting activities and interests of Franklin Baxter during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to these documents there are several miscellaneous records that were incorporated into the Baxter Collection by the staff of the B. Carroll Reece Museum prior to the...
Dates: 1797-1931

William T. Becker Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0688
Abstract

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

Dates: 1950s-1970s

D.R. Beeson, Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0164
Scope and Contents The D. R. Beeson, Sr. Papers contain consist of the personal and professional papers of Donald Richard Beeson of Johnson City, Tennessee. Professional materials include architectural drawings, blueprints, and contract books relating to Beeson's designs of private residences and public and commercial buildings in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, southwest Virginia, and West Virginia. Personal materials include Beeson's autobiography; essays; photographs; games and puzzles; newspaper...
Dates: 1830-1985, undated

Elma Lillian Rankin Beeson Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0165
Scope and Contents

The Elma Lillian Rankin Beeson Papers contain newspaper clippings, class record books, and photographs pertaining to her teaching career at East Tennessee State Normal School. Also included are extensive photographs, postcards and a diary of her 1913 trip to Europe. The papers also contain part of the Rankin family history and several certificates and awards resulting from Beeson's activities involving Tusculum College and various ladies civic clubs.



Dates: 1904 - 1973

Fred W. Behrend Family Collection (unprocessed)

 Collection — other: 3 boxes
Identifier: AppMs-0637
Abstract

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

Dates: 1950s-1970s

Robert Bell Collection

 Collection — Box: B (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0071
Scope and Contents

The Bell Collection consists primarily of copies of images relating to life in East Tennessee. There are images of the Kitzmiller house which was in Gray, Tennessee until the 1960s; various church gatherings; structures; and businesses. There is also a small handwritten booklet containing several home remedies and photocopies of the family history pages in a Miller family Bible.

Dates: 1898-2005, undated

Carol Berry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0529
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 50 black and white photographs of Paul Hadley Berry taken during World War II, c. 1945. The photographs were believed to have been taken primarily while stationed in Okinawa. Included are scenes in Hawaii, Okinawa, and unidentified locations.

Dates: circa 1945

Joe Bethancourt Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: AppMs-0474
Scope and Contents

The Joe Bethancourt Collection documents the musical career of Joe Bethancourt, "The Carolina Banjo Picker." The collection consists of a 3.5-inch computer diskette containing promotional information, three publicity photographs, and three audiocassettes published by White Tree Productions, Phoenix, Arizona: Naked Banjos, 1994; Who Fears the Devil?, 1994; and Old Red Cat, 1995.

Dates: 1994-1995

Andrew Biddle Letters

 Collection — Box: K (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0863
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three letters written by Andrew Biddle of Johnson City, Tennessee to his brother-in-law Harry Oellig in Pennsylvania. Biddle was a miller and topics covered include family, the price of grain, the state of the milling business, the 1896 presidential election, hunting in East Tennessee, and various financial matters.

Dates: 1896

Biography of Dr. and Mrs. A.S.N. Dobson of Limestone R.F.D. Tenn.

 Collection — Box: C (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0139
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a photocopy of the typewritten Biography of Dr. and Mrs. A. S. N. Dobson of Limestone R.F.D. Tenn. According to the title page, Dobson wrote the biography between 1910 and 1914, and his son, Roy Calvin, edited the document in 1915. The Dobson autobiography covers aspects of Dobson's life from his conscription into the Confederate army in 1862, through his postwar career as a medical doctor in the Broylesville area. Inserted at the conclusion of the biography are...
Dates: 1982

Henry Blackwell Photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0122
Scope and Contents The Henry Blackwell Photographs consist of 44 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 black and white negatives, and 44 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 black and white contact prints. The negatives and contact prints focus on the August 13, 1940 flood on the Linville River Railroad (LRR), a narrow gauge railroad which ran from Pineola, North Carolina to Cranberry, North Carolina. LRR was part of the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad. The August 1940 flood washed away track and bridges and helped hasten the...
Dates: 1940

Richard Blaustein Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0111
Scope and Contents The Richard Blaustein Collection contains photographs, tapes, newsclippings, a scrapbook, correspondence, and publications which relate to the study and teaching of the history of country music, performances of the Dixie Dewdrops, the Old Time Country Radio Reunion, the Homefolks Festival and the Folk Artists-in-the-Schools program.In 2000, an addition to the collection was processed. Included in the addition to the Richard Blaustein Collection are open reel audiotapes of...
Dates: 1945-1981

Blaustein-Songer Collection

 Collection — other: 1 packet
Identifier: AppMs-0383
Scope and Contents

The Blaustein-Songer Collection consists of "The Death of Floyd Collins," sheet music published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., New York; and a ten-inch vinyl recording of "Death of Floyd Collins" and "Dream of a Miner's Child" by Vernon Dalhart.

Dates: circa 1925

Blountville Circuit Quarterly (Holston) Conference Minute Books

 Collection — Box: A (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0016
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photocopies of minutes of Blountville Circuit Stewards' Quarterly Conference (November 13, 1841-December 4, 1859 and September 30, 1873-August 2, 1886) and includes financial statements, ministerial examinations and licensing, reports on Sunday School election of trustees, reports on the state of the church for Blountville Circuit, and committee reports on various subjects.

Dates: 1841-1859, 1873-1886

Bluegrass and Old-time Music Program Collection

 Collection — other: Boxes 1-11
Identifier: UnivRec-0563
Abstract

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

Dates: TBD