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Frank Taylor and Mack Riddle Photographs and Clippings, undated
KC Manuscript Collection 72 ABSTRACT: The Frank Taylor and Mack Riddle collection consists of a few newspaper clippings and seven pictures primarily of Taylor saved in TIFF format. Both Taylor and Riddle were popular entertainers in the greater Kingsport,Tennessee area. The two men met as students at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport. While at school, […]
Type: Finding Aids
James H. Quillen Collection, 1800s-2000
KC Manuscript Collection 71 INTRODUCTION Title: James H. Quillen Collection, 1800s-2000 Collection Number:Kingsport Community Manuscript Collection (KCMC) 71 Physical Description: 8 boxes, 4 oversized folders Creator: James H. Quillen Repository: Archives of the City of Kingsport ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Provenance: The James H. Quillen Collection was donated to the Archives of the City of Kingsport by […]
Type: Finding Aids
Miscellaneous Publications, 1931-1992
KC Manuscript Collection 70 ABSTRACT: This collection consists of miscellaneous publications produced by a variety of groups and organizations in Kingsport, Tennessee. Most of these materials were transferred to the Archives from the Kingsport Public Library. Materials include a photograph of the opening of East Tennessee State University’s Kingsport Branch, materials from the Kingsport Junior […]
Type: Finding Aids
American Legion Hammond Post, No. 3 Decorating Committee Collection, 1969-1970
KC Manuscript Collection 69 ABSTRACT: The American Legion Hammond Post, No. 3 Decorating Committee Collection consists of correspondence, cemetery lists, and maps used to decorate graves on Memorial Day during 1969 and 1970. The correspondence is from Elizabeth Goerdel and Dr. C. James Frye, Chair of the Legion’s Decorating Committee. Other people that helped place […]
Type: Finding Aids
Waverly Road Presbyterian Church Collection, 1996
KC Manuscript Collection 68 ABSTRACT: The Waverly Road Presbyterian Church collection consists of one fifty-page booklet titled “Be Thou Our Vision” which was produced in 1996. Keene White compiled and wrote the material in this revised edition. Photographs are included at the beginning and end of the booklet. Names of church leaders are included along […]
Type: Finding Aids
First Broad Street United Methodist Church Collection, 1922-1993
KC Manuscript Collection 67 ABSTRACT: The First Broad Street United Methodist Church collection consists of an information bulletin, church directories, a brief history of Reverend E. O. Woodyard who was the congregation’s first minister, and a reproduced black-and-white photograph of the church’s construction in October 1922. The church was erected in the recently organized city […]
Type: Finding Aids
New Vision for Youth Outreach Committee Collection, 2003-2004
KC Manuscript Collection 65 ABSTRACT: The New Vision for Youth Outreach Committee collection consists of a bulletin for Who Am I and a program of the inaugural Tri-Cities Black Heritage and Image Awards. Both events were presented during Black History Month in either 2003 or 2004. These presentations were held in Kingsport, Tennessee at St. […]
Type: Finding Aids
Kiwanis Kapers Programs, 1955-1975
KC Manuscript Collection 64 ABSTRACT: The collection consists of Kiwanis Kapers programs from 1955 through 1975 along with a 1965 Kiwanis Club yearbook. The Kiwanis Kapers were a community variety program presented for several decades in Kingsport,Tennessee. The Kapers had a number of acts that varied from a chorus line, to a minstrel act, and […]
Type: Finding Aids
Church Women United, Kingsport Branch Collection, 1933-2004
KC Manuscript Collection 63 ABSTRACT: The Kingsport Branch of the Church Women United was an interdenominational protestant organization active in Kingsport and Hawkins County,Tennessee between 1947 and 2004. Collection materials for the local organization consist of clippings, minutes, correspondence, reports, event materials, photographs, audio recordings, and leadership materials along with publications and administrative documents […]
Type: Finding Aids
Margaret Butler Collection, 1944
KC Manuscript Collection 62. ABSTRACT: The Margaret Butler collection consists of one biography concerning Annie Mitchell, Kingsport, Tennessee’s first school principal. The document was written in 1944 when Butler was working as a history teacher at Dobyns-Bennett High School, and Mitchell was in retirement. Information contained in the biography concerns Mitchell’s upbringing and schooling, professional […]
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