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Mildred Brashear yearbooks and memory book

Collection — Box: MS-117 001

Identifier: MS-117

Scope and Contents This collection contains University of Chattanooga yearbooks and a scrapbooks documenting Brashear's life as an undergraduate student from 1919 to 1923.

Found in: Special Collections

Viola and Kate Burdick photographs and printed ephemera

Collection — Box: MS-064 001

Identifier: MS-064

Scope and Contents This collection includes black-and-white photographs of Viola Burdick Campbell and Kate Burdick Hilton, photocopies of images of campus, and a photocopy of the 1919 University of Chattanooga commencement program.

Found in: Special Collections

Alfred C. Burrill papers and photographs

Collection — Box: MS-071 001

Identifier: MS-071

Scope and Contents This collection contains papers and documents of Alfred C. Burrill, former instructor at the University of Chattanooga Evening College and authority on conservation and natural resources from circa 1920 to 1957. Includes personal photographs of Mr. Burrill and family, Grant University material and photos, certificates, newspaper clippings, and other university-related items.

Found in: Special Collections

North Callahan papers and manuscripts

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-070

Scope and Contents This collection contains papers, manuscripts, reviews, lecture notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of Dr. North Callahan (bulk 1940-1996). The collection is diverse and covers his years in the military, as a journalist, a lecturer, an historian, and an author. Highlights of the personal material in the collection include correspondence with several politicians and heads of the Tennessee Valley Authority and photos with famous personalities such as Mickey Rooney,...

Found in: Special Collections

Orrelle Cornelius papers

Collection

Identifier: MS-013

Scope and Contents This collection contains playbills, newspaper clippings, original manuscripts of plays, and photographs regarding the University Players of the University of Chattanooga (UC) and the Little Theater in Chattanooga Tennessee in the 1930s.

Found in: Special Collections

Hixson Family papers

Collection — Box: MS-050 001

Identifier: MS-050

Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of correspondence to Fred W. Hixson, a University of Chattanooga President, and between his son, Jerome C. Hixson and Lupton Patten and Chancellor Fred O'Bear, ranging from 1914 to 1982. Also included is a small section from Jerome's autobiography that details his family's time in Chattanooga and their association with many prominent citizens (primarily the Patten family). A photograph of Edith Manker Patten, friend of Jerome's parents, and correspondence from her...

Found in: Special Collections

James Livingood papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-024

Scope and Contents This collection includes research materials related to institutional history, especially the UC/UT merger. Materials date primarily from the 1960s and 1970s. Papers and newspaper clippings collected by Dr. James Livingood during his tenure as professor and dean at the University of Chattanooga/UTC.

Found in: Special Collections

David A. Lockmiller papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-026

Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter to the UC Class of 2049, a scrapbook documenting the university’s 70th anniversary celebration, and an autograph letter signed from President Nixon. The collection also includes four scrapbooks and many degrees and honors awarded to Dr. Lockmiller. Although primarily personal in nature, this collection contains many items related to the history of UC in the mid-twentieth century. Lockmiller’s personal papers illustrate UC connections with prominent persons...

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John Longwith research notes

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-105

Scope and Contents This collection contains research files and a draft of Longwith's book, Light Upon a Hill: The University at Chattanooga, 1886-1996 published in 2000.

Found in: Special Collections

Isa McIlwraith and Arthur Plettner photographs, programs, and papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-072

Scope and Contents This collection includes personal papers, journals, photographs, music, music programs, recordings, and related documents from Isa McIlwraith and Arthur Plettner, professors of music at the University of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Material covers the date range of 1924 to 1989.

Found in: Special Collections

Ruth Clark Perry lecture notes

Collection — Box: MS-032 001

Identifier: MS-033

Scope and Contents This collection contains extensive handwritten notes of calculus textbooks she created as Head of the Math Department at the University of Chattanooga from 1922 to 1955, which may have been subsequently used as an outline for courses in calculus.

Found in: Special Collections

Frank Prescott papers and records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS-034

Scope and Contents This collection includes much of Prescott's teaching and research material, including government documents from 1928 to 1967. There is a strong collection of material relating to local and national political campaigns, TVA, civil rights, communism, labor, military and World War II (including Nazi newspapers, and correspondence from students serving in World War II) and political figures. There is some correspondence between himself and Dr. Joseph Zimmerman with whom he co-authored the book,...

Found in: Special Collections

University of Chattanooga Board of Trustees Executive Committee minutes

Collection — Box: UA-02-02-01 001

Identifier: UA-02-02-01

Scope and Contents This collection consists of six volumes of meeting minutes and correspondence spanning from 1899-1969. These records document the role of the Executive Committee in governing the University of Chattanooga on behalf of the Board of Trustees. The minutes of the Executive Committee meetings are much briefer than those of the full Board of Trustees meetings, as they do not contain annual reports from the president and other subcommittees. However, the subject matter of these minutes is very much...

Found in: Special Collections

University of Chattanooga Board of Trustees minutes

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: UA-02-01-01

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the minutes of Board of Trustees for the University of Chattanooga and its predecessor, Grant University. Comprised of 19 volumes spanning 80 years, these minutes document the growth and development of the University of Chattanooga from a small Methodist academy into a respected private metropolitan university capable of merging with the University of Tennessee land-grant institution. With the exception of a gap during 1890-1896 (the minutes and other...

Found in: Special Collections

University of Chattanooga photographs

Collection — Box: MS-066 001

Identifier: MS-066

Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of the University of Chattanooga.

Found in: Special Collections

University of Chattanooga Tobacco Premium ribbon

Collection

Identifier: MS-061

Scope and Contents This collection contains a single ribbon from circa 1910.

Found in: Special Collections

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chancellor portraits

Series

Identifier: UA-04-01-00

Scope and Contents This collection contains oil on canvas paintings of thirteen of the presidents and chancellors of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and its predecessor institutions.

Found in: Special Collections

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga commencement programs

Collection

Identifier: UA-05-02-01

Scope and Contents This collection contains programs from commencement ceremonies ranging from 1887 to the present, with some gaps. During these ceremonies, candidates for graduation have their degrees formally conferred to them by the University. The content of these programs varies over the years, but generally includes lists of candidates for degrees, the order of service, lists of faculty marshals, and lists of students receiving other recognitions such as departmental honors, Alpha Society memberships, and...

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