Frances Byrne scrapbook and school papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: RG-0000-0172

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Byrne, Frances scrapbook and school papers

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 papers discuss boys and dating and some clippings and writing reflect body image issues. In her school papers she has numerous writings and debates, one in particular reflecting her feelings that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin "over idealizes the negro in making him noble in character than the white people themselves" and that she exaggerated the plight of slaves to induce southern sympathies. there is a story about a male friend drinking and a woman who did not appreciate his drunkeness.

Dates

1922 - 1933

Creator

Byrne, Frances (Ada Frances Byrne Hensley), 1913-1934 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Ada (Ida) Frances (Francis) Byrne was born July 29, 1913 in Granville, Tennessee. She dies in Cookeville, Tennessee in her home on Cherry Street at 21 years in September of 1934. She married Joel C. Hensley on January 16, 1933. She is buried in City Cemetery. She played women's basketball for Baxter Seminary and attended the school. She was a member of the Polyhymnian Literary Society, Debate Club, and the Home-Ec Club. She graduated from Jackson County Central High School in 1932. Her parents were John Byrne (1886-1955) and Hattie Louanne Tittle Byrne (1887-1996). Her siblings include Willie Franklyn Byrne Curtis (1910–1994), Marye Lee Byrne Jennings (1915–1980), Floy Byrne Wooten (1917–2001), and Anna Sue (Ann) Byrne Haile (1921-2001).

Extent

0.5 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Condition Description

Papers vary in condition, some are fragile. Candy wrappers, apple skin, leaves, hair, and cigarette create some preservation problems.

Subjects

Autobiographies Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Basketball for women Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Baxter (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Bible study Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Dating (Social customs) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Football Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hair Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Hensley, Joel C. , 1907-1972
High school students Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letters Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Monterey (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Report writing Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Rural schools Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scrapbook journaling Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Self-esteem in adolescence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Sewell Brown, James, 1902-1979
Sewell Brown, James, 1930-2013
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Teenage girls Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
Visiting cards Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Women basketball players Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
clippings (information artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus