Abstract

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 72 hand-tinted glass plate positives. The photographs were taken in the 1920s and 1930s by the Reverend Chester Leonard. They depict scenes from the Vardy Community in Hancock County, Tennessee.

The slides are a mix of Metal-Mat slides and tape-bordered slides.

Arrangement

The interviews are divided into series by the institution that conducted the interviews and the dates of the interviews.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into three series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1916-1988 and undated; Series 2, Scrapbooks, 1913-1986; and Series 3, Photographs and Photograph Albums, 1909-1985.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into four series: Series 1, Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company Records, 1826-1948; Series 2, Doe Mountain Mining and Improvement Company Records, 1792-1948; Series 3, Doe Valley Association Records, 1790-1948; and Series 4, Miscellaneous Papers, 1836-1966.

Arrangement

The papers are arranged into six series, as follows: Series 1, Four Centuries of American Descendent of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts: A Family Genealogy Book Drafts, 1992-2000 and undated; Series 2, Professional Papers, 1920-2000; Series 3, Personal Papers, 1908-1962; Series 4, Memorabilia, 1937-1979 and undated; Series 5, Photographs and Slides, 1925-2000 and undated; and Series 6, Recordings, 1980.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following series: Series 1, Maps, 1863-1988; Series 2, Printed Materials and Memorabilia, 1860-1958; Series 3, Legal and Financial Papers, 1783-1965; and Series 4, Photographs and Postcards, 1903-1980s.

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The W. Hanes Lancaster, Jr. Collection consists of a spiral-bound typescript of Lancaster's World War II memoirs related to his military service titled, "A Military Adventure, 1943-1944-1945 for My Four Daughters," Lancaster completed the writing of his wartime reminiscence in 1997. The memoir describes Lancaster's experiences as a gunner aboards B-29 bombers in the Asian and Pacific theatres during World War II, including bombing missions into China and Japan.

Scope and Contents The Virgil Q. Wacks Collection contains approximately 1,816 reels and clips of motion picture film produced between 1942 and 1986. The collection also includes four audiotape recordings of musical performances, interviews, and business advertisement spots. The film collection documents the people, businesses, and towns of the Appalachian region and beyond. Western North Carolina, southeast Kentucky, East Tennessee, and southwest Virginia are regions represented in the collection. The...

Scope and Contents The photographs consist of the following: one photo of Martha Wilder Public School, Johnson City 1913 or 1914; one photo of Mae Walker at Princeton School in 1915; one photo of Governor Robert L. Taylor speaking on July 4 at Sycamore Shoals, Elizabethton, Tennessee; one photo of the cornerstone ceremony at Mayne Williams Public Library, Johnson City, Tennessee; two photos of "Mikado" casts; one photo of Southern Railroad Passenger Station, Johnson City, Tennessee; and 12 photos of the...

Scope and Contents The Wallace Family Papers consist primarily of the business and personal papers of Fitzhugh Lee Wallace, Sr. spanning his business career at Franklin Guaranty Bank and Hamilton Bank, Summers Hardware and Supply Company, Homeland Corporation and other businesses in the Johnson City, Tennessee area. The business papers include correspondence, notes, financial reports, corporate records, plats, and stock and stockholder records. The personal papers consist of a biographical transcript,...

Abstract

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

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The papers in the Washington County Chapter #2266 of the AARP consist of minutes, bulletins, correspondence, photographs, and a scrapbook pertaining to the Washington County Chapter #2266. The papers document the organization’s activities between 1974 and 2000.

Scope and Contents The Washington County Historic Structure Survey Project Papers consist of survey forms and photocopies of selected photographs compiled between 1983 and 1986 during the Washington County Survey Project. Several types of important information for each building were recorded during the survey including historic name, common name, name and address of the current owner, date of construction, source of construction date, present and original uses of the structure, construction details, building...

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Scope and Contents The Washington County (Tennessee) American Bicentennial Committee Records consist of agendas and minutes of committee meetings; proposed bylaws, bylaws, and the committee structure of the Bicentennial Committee; a list of members, ex officio members, and advisors of the committee; incoming and outgoing correspondence of Frank A. Tannewitz, Jr., committee chairman; a preliminary draft of the Upper East Tennessee Bicentennial Plan; a calendar of bicentennial events in Tennessee during the year...

Scope and Contents The Washington County (Tennessee) Bus Line Records consist of completed Ticket Agent's Daily Report forms from January and September, 1934 as well as undated Agent's Stubs which show destinations and ticket prices. There are also two envelopes from 1934: one labeled ET&WNC Motor Transportation Co. listing Washington County Bus Company as the driver, and the other labeled Tennessee Coach Lines with Washington County Bus Line handwritten across the top. The reports contain the...

Scope and Contents The Washington County, Tennessee Justice of the Peace Form of Judgment and Execution Docket contains an account of cases tried before several Washington County, Tennessee justices between 1843 and 1872. The ledger identifies case number, date, names of plaintiffs and defendants, amount of the suit or judgment, name of the returning officer, date of execution, and court costs. The docket identifies several 19th-century Washington County justices including Justices Enoch Kincheloe, Samuel B....

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The Watauga Dam Project Film consists of ten minutes of silent, color film footage taken at various stages of the construction of the dam in Carter County, Tennessee.

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Among the various types of documents are articles of agreement, bills of sale, bonds, declarations, depositions, indentures, indictments, interrogatories, inventories, judgments, list of jurors, minutes of the court, notices, oaths, orders, petitions, pleas in abatement, promissory notes, receipts, securities, recognizances, references and writs.

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The Watauga Personnel and Guidance Association Collection consists of the business and organizational records of the WPGA and the UETPGA, together with documents produced by the state organization, the Tennessee Personnel and Guidance Association, and the national organization, the American Personnel and Guidance Association. Also included in the collection are materials produced by other guidance and personnel associations.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of an 1841 handwritten transcript of an 1829-1840 case transferred from the Chancery Court in Rogersville, Tennessee to the United States District Court of East Tennessee. The case concerned disputes over debt between Adam Waterford, a free person of color, of Sullivan County, Tennessee, and Isaac Baker of Washington County, Virginia. Major issues included disputes over tracts of land in Tazewell County, Viriginia and Sullivan County, Tennessee; the sale of forty head...

Scope and Contents This black & white silent film was shot by itinerant filmmaker H. Lee Waters during the winter of 1940 as part of his Movies of Local People series. It showcases the people, merchants, and schools of Mountain City, Tennessee and includes footage of the community of Shouns, Tennessee. The footage includes depictions of schoolchildren and the African American community.According to a log book held by Duke University, Waters showed a film at the Strand Theater in Mountain City...

Scope and Contents The WCYB Editorials (Walter Crockett) consist of typed transcripts of editorials given by Walter Crockett during WCYB-TV 5 newscasts. The bulk of his editorials cover a period from 1965 to 1980. The 1981 and 1982 years cover editorials given by several broadcasters and by Crockett on guest appearances.The information contained in the editorials is limited to issues regarding local and area events. State issues surface on occasion, but national events and issues were seldom...

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The WCYB Radio Tapes include country music performed on the WCYB programs "Farm and Fun Time" and the "Thrift Supply Company Show," 1947-49. The featured group on six of the tapes, the Tennessee Hilltoppers, played country music which featured electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass, and vocals. One of the tapes contains WOPI Radio (Bristol, Tennessee) transcriptions. Included on this tape is a segment of the "Tennessee Ernie Ford Show."

Scope and Contents The WCYB-TV 5 Collection consists of videotapes on topics relating to the history and culture of the Southern Appalachian region. The recordings resulted from the WCYB-TV series,"Project Family," which aired early to mid 1990s. According to Wallace, the purpose of the series was to focus on faith, education, and the region, including important people of the southern Appalachian Region. The recordings feature important regional musicians such as Doc Watson, Benny Sims, the Wallin Brothers,...

Scope and Contents The Weather Bureau Airport Station reports collection consists of weather observation reports taken at the Tri-City Airport weather station at Blountville, Tenn., between 1938 and 1989. The reports provide basic climatological data such as high and low air temperatures, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation recorded on a daily basis, as well as cumulative data such as monthly and annual climate averages and record temperatures and precipitation at the weather...

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The Wednesday Morning Music Club Records document the history and activities of this Johnson City, Tenn., social organization between the 1930s and the 1990s. Collection material includes by-laws, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, minutes, programs, yearbooks, miscellaneous club records, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Arrangement

The records are divided into sub-groups according to the serial program or the announcer/producer responsible for creating the records and for their transfer to the archives. To date there are three sub-groups: Sub-group 1: Tom Christy Records; Sub-group 2: Country Roots Radio Series records/Richard Gordon, producer; and Sub-group 3: Ed Price Records. The bulk of the records consist of Tom Christy's materials in Sub-group 1.

Arrangement

Items in the collection are arranged in chronological order with undated material filed last in the folder.