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Finding Aid for the Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks, 1917-1967


MS-0789

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, September 26, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks

Date/Date Range :   1917-1967

Extent: 7.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses scrapbooks, photographs, magazines, newspapers, programs, menus, and invitations documenting the life and work of Tennessee journalist Nellie Kenyon.

Call number: MS-0789

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Nellie Kenyon Scrapbooks, MS-0789. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of seven boxes divided into four series:

  1. Series I: Scrapbooks
  2. Series II: Photographs
  3. Series III: Magazines and Newspapers
  4. Series IV: Programs, Invitations, Menus, and Miscellanea

Biography / History

Nellie Kenyon was born in Lexington, Kentucky on November 28, 1895. Although she had little formal education in her youth, she spent most of her professional life writing for such Tennessee newspapers as The Nashville Tennesseean and The Chattanooga News. Her work dealt primarily with federal trials. These stories include her coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial in July of 1925, her exposure of a baby selling operation in Memphis (which obtained infants under questionable circumstances and placed them in adoptive homes, including the homes of Hollywood movie stars, for a large fee) in 1950, and her coverage of the Jimmy Hoffa trial in January of 1964. Even after her official retirement in 1970, Kenyon continued to write occasionally on special assignments. She died in February of 1982.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection houses scrapbooks, photographs, magazines, newspapers, programs, menus, and invitations documenting the life and work of Tennessee journalist Nellie Kenyon. Interested researchers may also wish to consult June N. Adamson's August 1971 thesis, Selected Women in Tennessee Newspaper Journalism, which contains a biography of Nellie Kenyon.

Subject Terms

  • Kenyon, Nellie, 1895-1982.
  • Journalism -- Tennessee.
  • Women journalists -- Tennessee.
  • Scopes trial -- Tennessee -- Dayton.
Contents List
   

Series I: Scrapbooks, 1917-circa 1960
Box   1     Folder   1    
Scrapbook, 1917-1919

Scope Note:

Mostly news articles by Miss Kenyon. Several letters and certificates. (dated on cover)
Box   1     Folder   2    
Scrapbook, 1925-1931

Scope Note:

Articles by and about Miss Kenyon, including coverage of the Scopes Trial. Several autographed photographs, cards, letters and souvenirs. (dated on cover)
Box   1     Folder   3    
Scrapbook, 1928-1932

Scope Note:

Mostly articles by Miss Kenyon and letters. (dated on cover)
Box   1     Folder   4    
Scrapbook, 1936

Scope Note:

Mostly souvenir; and letters. Some articles by and about Miss Kenyon. Autographed picture of Richard Halliburton.
Box   2     Folder   1    
Scrapbook, circa 1950-circa 1960

Scope Note:

Newsclippings, letters, and awards. Cards sent upon Miss Kenyon's retirement. (Green/Gold)

Box   2     Folder   2    
Scrapbook, circa 1960

Scope Note:

Clippings. invitations, and various letters. Autographed photograph of James Hoffa. (Brown/Gold)
Box   2     Folder   3    
Scrapbook, circa 1960

Scope Note:

Invitation to inauguration and inaugural ball of President Johnson. Several autographed pictures and certificates. (Engraved)
Box   3     Folder   1    
Scrapbook, circa 1940

Scope Note:

Souvenirs, playbills, newsclippings, postcards, letters, and cards. (Floral)
Box   3     Folder   2    
Scrapbook, undated

Scope Note:

Mostly newsclippings of James Hoffa trial. Photograph of Miss Kenyon and a one-page typescript of her biography. (Large/Brown)
Box   3     Folder   3    
Scrapbook, undated

Scope Note:

Black photograph album.
   

Series II: Photographs, undated
Box   4     Folder   1    
Chesterton
Box   4     Folder   2    
Winston Churchill
Box   4     Folder   3    
Clarence Darrow
Box   4     Folder   4    
Galli-Curcy
Box   4     Folder   5    
Mary Garden
Box   4     Folder   6    
Florence Harding
Box   4     Folder   7    
Warren Harding
Box   4     Folder   8    
Richmond A. Hobson
Box   4     Folder   9    
Herbert Hoover
Box   4     Folder   10    
Lady Bird Johnson
Box   4     Folder   11    
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Box   4     Folder   12    
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline
Box   4     Folder   13    
Robert F. Kennedy (1 4x6, 1 8x11)
Box   4     Folder   14    
Grace Moore
Box   4     Folder   15    
Richard M. Nixon
Box   4     Folder   16    
Eleanor Roosevelt and Nellie Kenyon
Box   4     Folder   17    
J. Scopes (with press card)
Box   4     Folder   18    
Bess Truman
   

Series III: Magazines and Newspapers,

Box   5     Folder   1    
"Kennedy and his family in Pictures." By the editors of Look , undated
Box   5     Folder   2    
"John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition." Life , undated
Box   5     Folder   3    
Look , 1963 December 31
Box   5     Folder   4    
Look , 1964 November 17
Box   5     Folder   5    
Life , 1963 December 6
Box   5     Folder   6    
Life , 1963 November 29
Box   5     Folder   7    
Life , 1963 December 6
Box   5     Folder   8    
Post , 1966 April 23
Box   5     Folder   9    
Post , 1967 May 6
Box   5     Folder   10    
Post , 1963 December 14
Box   5     Folder   11    
Illustrated Detective Magazine (Article about Miss Kenyon), 1932 April
Box   5     Folder   12    
Illustrated Detective Magazine (Article about Miss Kenyon), 1932 May
Box   5     Folder   13    
The Dallas Morning News Saturday, 1963 November 23
Box   5     Folder   14    
The Dallas Morning News Monday, 1963 November 25
Box   5     Folder   15    
The News (Mexico City) Wednesday, 1968 June 5
Box   6     Folder   1    
"A Newspaper's Account of the Assassination of a President ... and the two weeks that followed." Entitled "He Gave His Life." (In Magazine format)
Box   6     Folder   2    
The Chattanooga Times Jubilee Souvenir. (Autographed by Adolph S. Ochs)
   

Series IV: Programs, Invitations, Menus, and Miscellanea, 1945-1974
Box   7     Folder   1    
Program: 43rd Annual Governor's Conference, Gatlinburg, Tennessee (autographed by several governors), 1951
Box   7     Folder   2    
Program: 48th Annual Governor's Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1956
Box   7     Folder   3    
Program: The Nashville Tennessean 31st Annual Three-Star Forum Banquet, undated
Box   7     Folder   4    
Program: Inauguration Invitation, 1949
Box   7     Folder   5    
Program: Inauguration Program, 1949
Box   7     Folder   6    
Program: 41st Inaugural Gala (Entertainment program), 1949 January 19
Box   7     Folder   7    
Five Menus, undated
Box   7     Folder   8    
"If Lincoln had Worked Here ... " Lincoln's Gettysburg Address proofed with MS markings, undated
Box   7     Folder   9    
Nashville Tennessean article on Miss Kenyon's visit to Knoxville for "Nellie Kenyon Day" , 1974 January 10
Box   7     Folder   10    
Letter from Bess Truman, 1973 May 31