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This collection consists mainly of newspaper clippings from 1939-1975 and photographs from 1921-1968 highlighting sports events during his acclaimed TPI football coaching career, sourced mostly in/from scrapbooks. Also included are personal correspondence, photographs from his work and personal life, a short biography, and a small amount of TPI memorabilia.

Content Description 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...

Scope and Contents These research records contain the notes created by Calvin Dickinson and Harvey Neufeldt in their creation of the book "The Search for Identity: A History of Tennessee Technological University, 1915-1985." The records are maintained in the archives due to the book having no citations reflecting where the information was obtained. The records are divided into sections, and should a user need to clarify a statement from the book for truth, these records may assist in directing the user to the...

Content Description This collection of papers contains research for the paper "The Female Experience at Tennessee TEch: 1940-1990. The significance of this collection lies in the subject matter, which includes affirmative action, the role of women at Tech, and information regarding secual discrimination at Tech. As of the time this was accessioned there was no history of the contributions of women to the growth and development of Tennessee Tech University outside of this research project.Of...

Content Description During Sidney McGee's tenure at Tennessee Tech University, he made a number of trips to Europe, from which he collected extensive tourist memorabilia and unused postcards, and kept hundreds of photos, which also grace this collection. McGee was a sports enthusiast and columnist who, as Tech’s unofficial director of sports information for many years, wrote press releases for the Tennessee Tech basketball team, and kept journals, notes and statistics—these along with newspaper clippings of his...

Content Description The dates of the Smithville Jamboree Collection range from 1952 to 2021. There are multiple records creators to this collection, including Berry C. Williams, Mickey Driver, Neil Dudney, Nolan Turner, Maureen Jameson, and Roger Estes. The bulk of the collection, however, is composed of materials preserved by the Smithville Jamboree Board. The collection contains event programs, photographs, ephemera, correspondence, and documents pertaining to the Smithville Fiddlers Jamboree and Crafts...

Content Description Documents activism and responses to activism in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. Topics include activism against anti-Black police brutality and criminizalization of poverty. Content warning: some responses to protests contain dehumanizing, white supremacist, anti-Black racist, and antisemitic language and images. Some responses also call for and glorify violence against protesters.Physical materials include four signs from the June 6, 2020 Black Lives Matter protests...

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Paper and born-digital publications and records of the Tennessee Tech University Office of Sports Information. Includes record books, scorebooks, media guides, programs for home games, results, podcasts, and quick facts. Materials are organized by sport, then chronologically by date.

The born-digital publications can be accessed at: https://tntech.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_75e12052-4b69-4c89-a3a6-5dcb4f25903f/

Scope and Contents The Staff Advisory Committee to the President met to act in an advisory capacity to the President and/or the President’s staff for the purpose of generating and recommending ideas, philosophies, procedures, and policies on topics deemed to be important to the Tennessee Tech’s staff. Through this committee, staff could relay matters of university-wide concern to the President, and the President communicated information that would be disseminated to the staff. The committee also evaluated...

Content Description Records of the former director of the Women's Center and sociology professor, Gretta Stanger. She was employed as a faculty member at Tennessee Tech for nearly 50 years. The records include information regarding the Women's Center, the Commission on the Status of Women, Women in Higher Education in Tennessee, and an outside organization, Women Organizing Women. Also included are her personal collections of both papers related to her membership to the above stated groups and a series of...

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This collection contains photographs of people, buildings, and events at Tennessee Technological University. Some of the photographs are originals and others are copies of photographs from an earlier period. The photographs were used in various publications and announcements. There are numerous pictures of alumni printed in the Alumnus.

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Bills, resolutions, constitutions and bylaws, meeting records, scrapbooks, and photographs of the Tennessee Tech University Student Government Association and its predecessor, the Associated Student Body.

Content Description Records include photographs, certificates, scrapbooks, and event programs that relate to the activities of Tech Training School Parent Teacher Association. Of note are fourteen scrapbooks from 1942 to 1966 and two Founder’s Day program volumes. The scrapbooks document events from individual school years including newspaper clippings, student artwork, programs, and photographs. The purpose of the scrapbooks was to record the accomplishments of the PTA for the school year. The...

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Records of the Academy of Science include committee minutes, meeting information, constitutions, charters, grant information, correspondence, and handbooks. The records include accounting materials and records of the Tennessee Junior Academy of Science program and the Tennessee Visiting Scientist Program.

Content Description This collection documents the local community response to tornadoes that touched down in Putnam County, Tennessee, on March 3, 2020 through materials gathered by the Tennessee Tech University Archives and Special Collections. It includes responses from the City of Cookeville and Putnam County, Tennessee Technological University, and numerous places and businesses in the Upper Cumberland. The bulk of the collection consists of webpages, photographs, videos, and screenshots of social media and...

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Documents related to the operation of the Tennessee Tech University Division of University Advancement, which includes the Crawford Alumni Center and University Development. Materials include meeting records of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, event planning files, photographs curated for alumni events and publications, publications, and Tennessee Tech ephemera.

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The University Assembly consists of the Academic Council and the Administrative Council meeting together as one body. This collection consists of University Assembly, Academic Council, Administrative Council, and finally their combined sub-committee records.