Church history -- Tennessee

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The Maxwell photographs are divided into two series: Series 1, Negatives, and Series 2, Prints. Additional unprocessed materials are available. Please contact us for information about these materials.

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The collection is arranged in three series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1890-2001 and undated, Boxes 1-2 and oversized folder 1; Series 2, Photographs, 2000 and undated, Box 3; and Series 3, Audio-Visual Recordings, 2000 and undated, Box 4.

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...

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 Emanuel Lutheran Church Records consists of photocopies of lists of communicants, baptisms, confirmants and of those attending catechism. There are also some church minutes, including decisions about financial matters, election of church officials and teaching catechism in English rather than Dutch. Lists of baptisms includes information about the persons' parents and date of birth.Also included with the church records are photocopies of property deeds which seem to have...

Scope and Contents The Burr Harrison Photographs consist of 380 photographic images (prints and negatives) depicting Johnson City and environs circa 1881-1958. The collection represents only a portion of Harrison's work, as much of it did not survive. The collection centers on photographs of commercial buildings in downtown Johnson City; industries, residences, apartment houses and churches in the city; buildings and activities at Mountain Home; and buildings at East Tennessee State Normal School (ETSNS). Some...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, booklets/pamphlets, correspondence, journals, typed notes by Mary Hardin McCown on local history, women, War of 1812 soldiers and veterans in Tennessee, Civil War in Tennessee, Tennessee Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, Johnson City Kiwanis Club, E. A. Galbraith and Galbraith's Springs in Hawkins County, Tenn., genealogy, historical preservation, and patriotic organizations. The collection also contains issues of...

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The Philadelphia Cumberland Presbyterian Church Session Minutes and Church Register is a photocopy of the volume documenting the years between 1906 and 1958. The minutes record church proceedings, while the registers list pastors, elders, deacons, baptisms, marriages and deaths. Also included are annual church reports and annual reports to the presbytery.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into three series according to document type as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1790-2000 and undated; Series 2, Publications, 1849-1941 and undated; Series 3, Photographs, 1880-1974, and undated.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in three series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1894-1988 and undated; Series 2, Memorabilia, 1958-1966 and undated; and Series 3, Photographs, undated.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in two series, as follows, Series 1, Subject Files, 1903-1988 and undated and Series 2, Photographs, c. 1940s-c. 1960s. Oversized documents have been placed in a map folder and stored in the map cabinets by accession number.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into three series, as follows: Series 1, Subject Files, 1930-1994 and undated; Series 2, Financial Records, 1928-1978; and Series 3, Memorabilia, 1905-1957 and undated.

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The Stoney Creek Baptist Church Records consist of photocopies of a typed transcript of the minutes of the church for the period 1841-1873. The minutes document the operation of the church at its regular business meetings and include such information as church finances, membership, baptisms and deaths, associational business, and related church activities.