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Sullivan County (Tenn.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Edward D. Cross Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0511
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...
Dates: 1901-1994
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Edward D. Cross Scrapbooks

Eileen Williams Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0358
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1885-1990
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Eileen Williams Collection

Gordon Aronhime Collection

 Collection — Other Box 1
Identifier: AppMs-0488
Arrangement

Material is organized as a single series and is arranged first alphabetically by subject or material type and then chronologically with undated material following dated material.

Dates: 1837-1981
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Gordon Aronhime Collection

Ketron Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0710
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, ephemera, an account book and a journal, all concerning the Ketron family of Sullivan County, Tennessee. The bulk of the papers are related to Joseph Henry Ketron and his nephew Audley Bruce Ketron. These materials offer insight into the personal and political life of family members and include documents pertaining to the Kingsley Seminary, the coeducational school in Bloomingdale, Tennessee which Joseph Ketron led for 25...
Dates: 1839 - 1948
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Ketron Family Papers

Robert M. Shank Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0142
Scope and Contents The Robert M. Shank Collection contains one farmer's account book, newsclippings, newspaper, and a map of Sullivan County, Tennessee. The account book documents Shank's purchase and sale of agricultural products while a Sullivan County farmer and a "debts and records account" of his family's household expenses dating between 1899 and c. 1949. The book also contains a description of home remedies, a mathematical table for calculating the size and weight of different types of farm products,...
Dates: 1899-1949
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Robert M. Shank Collection

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