Scope and Contents This collection documents the history of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad and the Linville River Railway through company records, publications, maps, oral history interviews, films, videotapes, and photographs. The materials date from 1883-2005, but predominantly 1910s-1950. This collection provides a comprehensive visual record of the ET&WNC RR. The written record highlights various aspects of the railroad’s operation. The research value of this collection...

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The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Transportation Company Records consist primarily of accounting records of the company. Included are cash books, cash voucher records, general ledgers, general journals, balance sheets and supporting statements, time and wage books, and payroll ledgers.

Scope and Contents The East Tennessee Church Ledger is a financial ledger of an unidentified congregation (probably Presbyterian) in East Tennessee. The ledger contains several financial entries, including accounts payable, bills payable, congregational funds, general subscriptions, miscellaneous income, mortgage income, profit and loss, and special subscriptions. The ledger also contains entries of "Outside Churches," including Timber Ridge, Bethesda, Pilot Knob, Portrum's Memorial, Vardy, Glen Alpine, Reedy...

Arrangement This collection is divided into six series: Series 1, Organizational Records, 1911, 1931-1969; Series 2, Correspondence, 1916-1975; Series 3, Executive Committee and Annual Meeting Minutes, 1920-1975; Series 4, Financial Records, 1909-1975; Series 5, Annual Meeting Materials, 1928-1975; and Series 6, Publications and Newspaper Clippings, 1911-1975.Materials in the addition have been added to the following series: Series 3, Executive Committee and Annual Meeting Minutes, 1976-84,...

Arrangement The records contained no organizational charts for the companies, and the arrangement of the records did not appear to reflect the organization of the company. The records are divided into two subgroups: Subgroup 1, Financial Records; and Subgroup 2, Operating Records. Subgroup 1 contains six series including Series 1, Government Tax and Agency Files; Series 2, Subject Files (primarily budgets, legal contracts, account statements, and audits); Series 3 Marketing Files; Series 4,...

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The records are arranged chronologically according to the dates of the Athletic Committee meetings.

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DVDs and print publications created for the celebration of East Tennessee State University's centennial year in 2011.

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The East Tennessee State University Collegium Musicum Records contain correspondence, press releases, newsclippings, event programs, financial statements, course materials, and photographs documenting the course work and performance activities of the ETSU early music ensemble between 1989 and 1993.

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The collection is divided into three series: Series 1, Organization Records, 1954-1991; Series 2, Scrapbooks and Memorabilia, 1963-1985; and Series 3, Miscellaneous Publications, 1979-1991.

Scope and Contents The ETSU Faculty List and Bibliography, 1911-1961, is a card file consisting of two sections arranged alphabetically by faculty member name. The first section contains a list of faculty members who served the institution for three quarters or more (excluding military personnel and those specially hired by the government proceeding and during World War II), while the second section contains a list of part-time and summer term faculty. For each faculty member listed in the first section, an...

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This collection consists of six DVDs containing high resolution scans of the photographs used in the 2007 book East Tennessee State University Football by L. Thomas Roberts and Jerry Robertson.

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The ETSU Girls of Summer Chapter of Ya Ya Sisterhood Collection consists of one scrapbook of the 2002 meeting of this organization at Opelika, Alabama. The scrapbook includes a membership list, essays, poetry, and miscellaneous writing, along with the group’s mission and induction ceremony.

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The records of the East Tennessee State University Retirees Association document the activities of the association from 1987 to 1992. The collection contains bylaws, agendas and minutes of meetings of the board of directors, lists of members of the board of directors, memoranda and correspondence, lists of association members, lists of East Tennessee State University retirees, records of the program committee, association newsletters, financial records, and miscellaneous records.

Scope and Contents The self-study records for re-accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools consists of steering committee meeting minutes, departmental profiles, department faculty profiles, departmental surveys, SACS standards, the self-study report, and appendix A. The records detail the steering committees' assignments which included: the organization and staffing of the eleven committees with a liaison from the steering committee, the compilation and distribution of comprehensive...

Scope and Contents The East Tennessee State University United Fund Records document the contributions of university employees to the United Way of Johnson City, a local affiliate of United Way of America, during the period 1966-1976. The records contain pledge cards, university correspondence and memoranda, reports submitted by the university to the local United Way agency, memoranda and reports of the local agency, lists of contributions by university employees, United Fund and United Way brochures, and...

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The collection consists of a handbill advertising a weekend excursion on the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET & WNC) Railroad. The text advertises that "this is the Trip featured in the Movie Short entitled 'Tennessee Tweetsie' [1939]" and that sightseers can "SPEND A DAY OF WHOLESOME PLEASURING-In the Land of the Sky!" The broadside lists rates and times from railway stations in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.

Scope and Contents The Gordon Ebersole Personal Papers documents Ebersole’s interest in international, national, and Appalachian news events, issues, and personalities primarily covering the period of the 1970s and 1980s. Among the issues documented are the Equal Rights Amendment, the Watergate political crisis, national and regional politics, international affairs, aging, natural resources, sports, and obituaries of famous people. The collection includes notebooks of newspaper clippings, post cards,...

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The Ed Wolfe Papers consist of audiocassettes, transcripts and photographs generated by Mr. Wolfe while he was researching his books on the Interstate Railroad. The content of the audiocassettes is primarily conversations with Mr. Wolfe's father, Hugh Wolfe, 1915-2009, who was a railroad employee from 1937-1978. There are other interviews with Hugh's former co-workers Les Blevins, Jack Long, M.D. Watts, and Ben Williams, as well as with Hugh's brother York Wolfe and Ed's aunt Mary Wolfe.

Arrangement This collection is divided into two series: Series I, Radio Script and Scrapbook Materials, 1950-1953 and Series II, Memoranda, Library and Reference Materials, 1960-1980. Series I contains a radio script detailing the history of college library from 1911-1950, as well as a scrapbook with pictures, drawings, and exhibits of bulletin boards that illustrate the architectural layout and specific locations of important reference collections within the Sherrod Library. Series II contains...

Scope and Contents The College of Education Records consists of a report of the teacher education program at then East Tennessee State College (1955), a plaque certifying ETSC membership in the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (1948), and 15 single sheet or multiple-sheet sets of blueprints and drawings (1966-81 and undated) of Warf-Pickel Hall (Education Building), the early childhood playground outside Warf-Pickel Hall, the ETSU Driving Range, and a floor plan of Brown Hall (Science...

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...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of black and white copy negatives and contact prints which depict the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company operations in Virginia and Kentucky. Depicted are housing for workers, trains hauling logs, and loggers and officials employed by Ritter Lumber Company. The original photographs dated from 1904 to 1946. George L. Carter, Isaac T. Mann, George A. Kent, John B. Dennis, W. M....

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Material is arranged alphabetically by subject and document type.

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The Eileen Williams Collection consists of newspaper clippings and other types of materials which document Southern Appalachian history, ca. 1885-1990. Especially prominent is the history of the city of Kingsport, Tennessee, and of Sullivan County, Tennessee.

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The Majid A. Ejlali Maps consist of Tennessee city census maps created by Ejlali as part of a university proposal to establish a medical school at East Tennessee State University as well as campus maps created by Ejlali. There are also some unsigned maps that were probably not created by Ejlali but used in developing the ETSU maps.

Scope and Contents The Elizabethton Star Negative Collection contains 4 x 5 and 2½ x 2½, black and white safety film negatives of pictures taken by the staff photographers for the Elizabethton Star newspaper. Five glass negatives have been kept with the collection.The negatives date from 1956 to 1968. The newspaper also kept in its files a few copy negatives made from older pictures which preserve earlier scenes in Elizabethton.The negatives concern the following subjects: news events;...

Scope and Contents The Ella P. Buchanan Papers document Mrs. Buchanan’s family and personal life, as well as that of some of her illustrious ancestors in the Sevier, Brown, Pierce, and Embree families. With documents spanning across three centuries (1785-1999), the collection provides a rich source of research material for local and family history of Washington County and Tennessee.The collection includes correspondence, legal documents, scrapbooks, account books and ledgers, genealogical files,...

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The collection is organized into three subgroups, as follows: Subgroup 1: Ella V. Ross Papers, 1920-1990 and undated; Subgroup 2: May Ross McDowell Papers, 1915-1988 and undated; and Subgroup 3: Audio-Visual Materials, c. 1910-1987 and undated.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 7000 black and white 4" x 5" negatives taken by James Ellis while he was chief photographer for the Johnson City Press-Chronicle. These negatives date from only two years of his service as Press-Chronicle photographer, 1958-60. A few of the negatives were identified as having been taken by a photographer named Huffine. These are as follows: 20573, 20580, 20581, 21229-21230, 21573-75, and 21634.Unfortunately, the negatives were not identified by Ellis,...

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The James Tipton Ellis Journal consists of a photocopy of the original journal used by Ellis for keeping personal and business accounts. Journal entries include information on Carter County, Tennessee marriages (some of which he performed as a justice of the peace) and deaths, as well as for purchases of goods.