East Tennessee State University -- History

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...

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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.

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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The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences Records document operations of the department, especially regarding areas of instruction in home economics and activities of the department’s student organization, the Student Member Section of the Tennessee Home Economics Association and American Home Economics Association.

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The collection is divided into the following series: Series 1, Graduate School Coursework, 1939-49; Series 2, Office Files, 1949-79; Series 3, Teaching, 1949-88; Series 4, Research, 1949-89; Series 5, A University's Story, 1911-1980; Series 6, Professional Service, 1949-88; and Series 7, Other Materials, 1941-92.

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The Ladye Kate Ottinger Memorabilia consists of an autograph album with entries dated between 1928 and 1930 and an annotated copy of The Chalk Line Senior Edition, 1936.

Scope and Contents The Mary D. Manning Interview collection consists of two audiocassette tape recordings of an oral history interview with Manning conducted March 31, 1996 by Marie Graves, a former student. The interview examines Manning's life and teaching career at East Tennessee State University and helps document the history and development of the university and its Department of English during the period from the late 1940s into the 1980s.Tape 1 is recorded on both the A and B side...

Scope and Contents The Miscellaneous University Records includes documents which focus primarily on student life and events on campus, 1911-1986. Included, for example, are the following: materials on the 1947 and 1948 tennis teams; personal letters written by and to students; information on the university's mascots; and audio tapes of lectures given on campus and of interviews of university personnel and/or former students; cafeteria tickets, football, and passion play tickets, 1936-48; and a September 1995...

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The records are arranged in files alphabetically by subject. Where multiple files for the same heading are found to be arranged in reverse chronological order, this indicates the original order maintained by the office. Oversized items are housed at the end of the collection.

Scope and Contents The papers of Burgin E. Dossett reflect the administration of East Tennessee State University during his tenure as university president; his participation in local and state educational organizations; and his interaction with other education professionals and government agencies. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, annual reports, committee reports and minutes, newsletters, and bulletins. The records span from 1949 to 1968. Records...

Scope and Contents The Office of University Relations Records contain correspondence, memoranda, photographs, 8mm films, videotapes, audiotapes, press releases, newsclippings, publication job jackets, President's Pride files, catalogs, bulletins, and broadsides documenting East Tennessee State University's diverse academic, athletic, and cultural activities between 1913 and 1986. The photographic materials, produced by the university photographer, were removed from this collection and were placed...

Scope and Contents The interview concentrates on Ms. Poe's remembrances of former East Tennessee State presidents Sidney G. Gilbreath (1911-25) and Charles C. Sherrod (1925-49), and of relations between the training school and the college. The tape is approximately 40 minutes in length (30 minutes, side 1; 10 minutes, side 2). Side 1 begins abruptly, with no introduction, and ends with the voices muffled and unclear. Side 2 ends abruptly, cutting off the interviewer in mid-sentence. The tape is stored in the...

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The Eleanor Robertson Scates Tape is one 90 minute audiocassette of an interview conducted with her by Edwin Greninger, department of history, East Tennessee State University. The interview focuses on discussion of her travels, her experiences as a teacher, and her interaction with and opinions of former East Tennessee State Presidents Charles C. Sherrod and Burgin Dossett.

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The collection is divided into four series: Series 1, Committee Correspondence and Minutes, 1984-1987; Series 2, Subject Files and Action Plans, 1984-1986; Series 3, Publications, 1985-1986; and Series 4, Audio and Videotapes, 1986.

The addition is arranged alphabetically by topic in one series, Subject Files.

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The Sidewalks and Porch Swings Oral History Project consists of eight audiocassette recordings of oral history interviews with residents, tape logs summarizing the interviews, data sheets on individuals interviewed, release forms, newspaper clippings, a photograph, and a newsletter of the Southside Neighborhood Organization which document the history of the "Tree Streets" neighborhood and residents in Johnson City, Tennessee.