Correspondence

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents reflecting the academic, business, political, and personal aspects of William A. Hensley's (1883-1951) life. Documents include teaching contracts, pharmacy permits, newspaper clippings regarding his business and political life and aspirations, a speech on the failure of a Tennessee Senate bill for the funding of a technical school, a commission certificate to serve on the staffs of Tennessee's Governors Peay and Horton, correspondence, travel notes, a...

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These are materials acquired initially by Christine Jones during her course of work as a genealogist in Tennessee Tech archives. They include copies and originals of materials dealing with counties, notable families, and a variety of historical topics dealing with the Upper Cumberland. Subject files continue to be added from ongoing acquisitions. This collection also includes numerous scrapbooks from Thomas Jefferson Barnes relating to his family genealogy and dating from 1883-1986.

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Deeds and other legal documents, letters, photographs, tintypes, other textual records, and weaving patterns belonging to the Pangle family of Overton County, Tennessee.

Content Description From the Collection: 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...

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...

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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.