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Tennessee Polytechnic Institute

 Organization

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Allison Rash Ensor collection, 1920 - 1964, bulk: 1953 - 1957

 Series
Identifier: 2017-044
Scope and Contents

Boxes 1 and 2 contain concert programs (1954-1957), a basketball program (1956), student fee invoices (1953-1954), a freshmen initiation program (1953), an admission application (circa 1954), drama club programs (1956 and circa 1954), and The Tech Dynamo student-published journal (1920).

Dates: 1920 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1957

Allison Rash Ensor Collection, 1920 - 1966, bulk: 1920 - 1921, bulk: 1953 - 1958

 Series
Identifier: 2018-008
Scope and Contents Boxes 1 and 2 contain: two TPI bulletins (1915); The Tennessee Tech Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (1966); two TPI high school graduation photographs of Rose Nell Johnson (1921); TPI high school graduation commencement ceremony invitation, two addressed envelopes, and a card bearing Rose Nell Johnson's name (1921); three of Rose Nell Johnson's TPI report cards (1920-1921); Allison Rash Ensor's report card and accompanying letter to parents with addressed envelope (1954); Allison Rash Ensor's report...
Dates: 1920 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1921; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1958

Allison Rash Ensor collection

 Collection — Box 1-2
Identifier: RG-0000-0117

Allison Rash Ensor collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-044
Dates: 1920 - 1964

Allison Rash Ensor collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2018-008
Dates: 1920 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1921; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1958

Annette Draper papers

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-0025
Dates: 1914 - 1924

Arthur Cumby Graduation Certificate and Photograph

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-0011
Dates: 1922-11-16; circa 1916

Vivian Barnes collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG-0000-0003
Abstract

Vivian Barnes attended Tennessee Tech and graduated in 1949 with a degree in accounting. She married H.S. Barnes, who attended Tech from 1936 to 1939. The materials include clippings from the Oracle, Tech’s student newspaper, and programs from different events, such as operas, plays, choral events, and symphony performances from 1935 to 1980, with most of the material dating from 1938 to 1966.

Dates: 1935 - 1980

Charles F. Bryan recital program

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-0023
Dates: 1950-07-18

Christine Hull Commencement Program and Student Forms

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2022-0011
Dates: 1929 - 1930

College of Engineering photographs

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-0003
Dates: 1915-

Conry family papers

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2022-0007

Myrtis Leonard Conry ledger and diaries

 Collection
Identifier: RG-0000-0075
Content Description The diary and accounts ledger gives a brief look at the daily life of Myrtis and Joseph (Joe) Conry and their two young children in the late 1920's and 1930's Cookeville Tennessee. Written by Myrtis, the diary begins in March of 1928 and shares stories about what is happening in the Cookeville area and at T.P.I (Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, now Tennessee Technological University) and in the world. In her writings she mentions the cost of the T.P.I. President's house, the Presidential...
Dates: 1921 - 1954

Contract Between Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the Richelieu Hotel

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-0016
Dates: 1918-10-29

C.P. Snelgrove collection

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2022-0092
Dates: 1930 - 1965

Daughters of the American Revolution loan fund checks

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-0021

Dero A. Darwin Scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-0047
Dates: 1921 - 1922

William Everett Derryberry papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-0000-0027
Abstract

The collection documents William Everett Derryberry’s term as President of Tennessee Tech University (1940-1974) and his personal and professional life outside of the university. He managed the university through disruption during World War II, growth in enrollment after the war, physical expansion of the campus, integration and student movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and the university’s name change from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in 1965.

Dates: 1912 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1974

Dixie College Photographs

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-0049
Dates: 1914; 1919; c. 1911-1915

Florence Barnes Shipley scrapbook

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2021-0035
Dates: 1917 - 1940

Frances Armistead papers

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-0029
Dates: 1943 - 1953

Frances Byrne scrapbook and school papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: RG-0000-0172
Scope and Contents Papers include candy wrappers, school papers, debates, newspaper clippings, visiting cards, a ring size chart, papers relating to high school basketball, and programs for events at Tennessee Tech, Baxter Seminary, the Strand Theatre, and other Upper Cumberland Schools. Papers also include numerous letters regarding high school gossip and romance. There are classmate photographs. The scrapbook uses paper from a yearbook from Manhattan, Kansas. There is a story regarding mumps and body. Many...
Dates: 1922 - 1933

James M. Hatfield Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-0000-0069
Scope and Contents These records include corresponded with Hatfield from Tennessee Technological University’s second president regarding his application for the position at Tech and information regarding staff hiring choices. Records discuss Hatfield’s opposition to the governor’s ability to appoint the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and include reports of the Putnam County Superintendent regarding the success of the schools. Lastly, records include materials relating to the death of Garland A....
Dates: 1916 - 1931

Invitation, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, 1948-06-04

 File — Box 3, Folder: 3
Content Description From the Collection: This collection includes various Tennessee Tech programs, pamphlets, fliers, booklets, guides, brochures, and ephemera created by the University. Archives created the collection to deal with various materials that either had no obvious home in University Archives or materials that had provenance at one point, but it was lost over the years. Rather than move small, one-off items to a larger collection, which requires a large amount of work, the archives created this to collection to deal...
Dates: Event: 1948-06-04

James M. Hatfield Records

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2000-0001
Dates: 1916 - 1924

Kathy Myllymaki Brick papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2019-0015
Dates: 1960 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1963

Melissa Moriss' Essay on William Everett Derryberry

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2020-0012

Myrtis Leonard Conry ledger and diary

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2017-0008
Dates: 1921 - 1954

Additional filters:

Type
Unprocessed Material 39
Collection 9
Archival Object 5
 
Subject
Concert programs 10
Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae 9
Commencement ceremonies 8
College students 7
black-and-white photographs 7