Finding Aids Collection
Browse sections of this document


Finding Aid for the Virginia P. Moore Papers, 1880-1970 (bulk 1909-1950)


MS-2201

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Jody DeRidder, June 26, 2006

Summary Information
Title: Virginia P. Moore Papers

Date/Date Range :   1880-1970 (bulk 1909-1950)

Extent: 0.65 linear feet

Abstract:
This addition to the Virginia P. Moore Collection (MS-1546) contains letters, writings, articles, photographs, etc. concerning Moore and her work in the Home Demonstration and Cooperative Extension Work of the Department of Agriculture. Some materials pertain to Thomas Edison, Sgt. Alvin York, and Senator and Mrs. Cordell Hull.

Call number: MS-2201

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, Tenn.

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Elizabeth Virginia Eaddy Dameron, great-niece of Virginia P. Moore, donated the collection in April 2005.
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], Virginia P. Moore Papers, MS-2201. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection is divided into eight series and two subseries:

  1. Series I: Photographs, 1880-circa 1920s
  2. Series II: Cordell and Frances Hull, 1926-1942
  3. Series III: Sgt. Alvin C. York, 1919-1942
    1. Subseries A: "Alvin York and His Environment" by Moore, 1928
    2. Subseries B: Other York Materials, 1919-1942
  4. Series IV: Moore's Writings, 1937
  5. Series V: Correspondence, 1913-1950
  6. Series VI: Scrapbook Leaves, 1913-1950
  7. Series VII: Articles, 1909-1970
  8. Series VIII: Miscellaneous, undated.

Biography / History

Virginia Pearl Moore ( 1880-1950) was one of the first five home demonstration agents in the U.S. She served in this field of work in Tennessee and Florida from 1909-1946. Miss Moore was from Gallatin, Tennessee. She organized garden and canning clubs in six Tennessee counties while she was the state's organizer of School Improvement Work. She was appointed State Collaborator for Tennessee in 1911. Miss Moore served as Assistant Home Demonstrator Agent at Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee from 1923-1946. She also served as assistant director and state home demonstration agent at the University of Tennessee. In June 1937 she was one of only two women invited to speak at the International Housing Congress in Paris. Miss Moore retired from home demonstration work in 1946.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This addition to the Virginia P. Moore Collection (MS-1546) contains letters, writings, articles, photographs, etcetera, concerning Moore. There are nine folders in eight series: 1. Photographs, 1880-circa 1920s (including Moore and Thomas Edison); 2. Cordell & Frances Hull, 1926-1942 (six of seven are letters); 3. Sgt. Alvin C. York, 1919-1942 (subseries 1 pertains to Moore's 1928 article, subseries 2 includes letters, pictures, and articles on the Yorks); 4. Moore's Writings, 1937 (first folder Home Demonstration Work and the Tomato Club, second folder Other Writings); 5. Correspondence, 1913-1950 (many letters concern her extension work in Florida); 6. Scrapbook Leaves, 1913-1950 (articles and letters taken from scrapbook leaves, mostly about her retirement in 1946 and death in 1950); 7. Articles, 1909-1970 (Three from 1909-1937 and two without dates concern Moore, and one from 1970 is about her parents' home.); and 8. Miscellaneous, undated. There is only one item before 1909 ; it is 1880, and one after 1950; it is 1970.

See also MS-1546 and MS-2376.

Subject Terms

  • Moore, Virginia Pearl, d. 1950.
  • Moore, Louisa Virginia (Crenshaw)
  • York, Alvin Cullum, 1887-1964.
  • Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955.
  • Hull, Frances.
  • Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
  • United States. Department of Agriculture.
  • Tennessee.
  • University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).
  • Home demonstration work -- United States -- History.
  • Home economics extension workers -- United States.
  • School improvements programs United States.
  • Housewives -- United States -- Societies, etc. -- History.
  • Florida.
  • University of Florida.
  • Florida State College.
  • Florida State College for Women History.
Contents List
   

Series I: Photographs,

Folder   1     Item   1    
Photograph of Frank A. Stewart to "Aunt Lou, " Moore's mother Louisa Virginia (Crenshaw) Moore, 1880 December 6.
Folder   1     Item   2    
Photograph of Moore, circa 1910.
Folder   1     Item   3    
Photograph of Tee Moore and Thomas Edison, circa 1920s.
Folder   1     Item   4    
Photographs of Thomas and Mina Edison, another man and woman, and Moore in Fort Myers, Fla., with notes, circa 1920s.
Folder   1     Item   5    
Photograph of a gray-haired Moore wearing the dress and lass worn by Queen Victoria at one time, undated.
   

Series II: Cordell and Frances Hull,

Folder   2     Item   1    
Letter to Moore in Tallahassee from Cordell, 1926 March 1.
Folder   2     Item   2    
Copy of letter to Moore in Tallahassee from Cordell, 1926 March 1.
Folder   2     Item   3    
Letter and envelope to Moore in Tallahassee, Fla., from Frances (in Washington, DC), 1933 March 20.
Folder   2     Item   4    
Letter and envelope to Moore in Gallatin, Tenn., from Frances in Pinehurst, N.C., 1935 November 12.
Folder   2     Item   5    
Recollection of meeting Cordell in 1908, 1942.
Folder   2     Item   6    
Letter to Moore from Frances in Washington, DC, February.
Folder   2     Item   7    
Letter to Moore from Frances in Washington, D.C., with cards for "Mrs. Hull" and "The Secretary of State" , 20 March 20.
   

Series III: Sgt. Alvin C. York,

   

Subseries A: Alvin York and His Environment by Moore, 1928.
Folder   3     Item   1    
Letter and envelope to Moore about her York article from Elsie Christie at Liberty Magazine, 1928 July 18.
Folder   3     Item   2    
Copy of 1928 July 18 envelope and program for a talk by Moore on York at the Willoughby Methodist Church on 18 September, 1928 July 18.
Folder   3     Item   3    
Letter to Moore rejecting her article from Christie, 1928 October 18.
Folder   3     Item   4    
Program for Willoughby Church talk on Sept. 18, a handwritten self-introduction by Moore, and "Alvin C. York and His Environment" article with notes by Moore for Liberty Magazine (first installment), undated.
Folder   3     Item   5    
Copy of self-introduction and Moore's York article with notes, undated.
Folder   3     Item   6    
Handwritten draft of York article (first installment), undated.
Folder   3     Item   7    
Handwritten draft of York article (second installment), undated.
   

Subseries B: Other York Materials, 1919-1942
Folder   3     Item   8    
Article on York from the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, Pa., 1919 April 26.
Folder   3     Item   9    
Article on York from the Nashville Banner, 1919 May 8.
Folder   3     Item   10    
Autograph of York for Paul Tarter, uncle of Elizabeth Virginia Eaddy Dameron, Moore's niece, 1919 June 9.
Folder   3     Item   11    
Unknown sender (possibly Moore), 1919 August 3.
Folder   3     Item   12    
Copy of letter to "Mamma" , 1919 August 3.
Folder   3     Item   13    
Letter to Moore from T.W. Hunter, Supervisor of the Tenn. Department of Education, Division of Rural Schools, in Nashville, Tenn., about lecturing at the Alvin C. York School, 1929 August 10.
Folder   3     Item   14    
Article on York, 1942 May 8.
Folder   3     Item   15    
"Important clippings / Alvin C. York" , inscribed on stationary from the George Washington Hotel in Jacksonville, Fla., undated.
Folder   3     Item   16    
Three Pictures of the Yorks, undated.
Folder   3     Item   17    
Three Pictures of "Trip over mountain roads to [School (Sorority) farm?]" , undated.
   

Series IV: Moore's Writings,

Folder   4     Item   1    
Home Demonstration Work and the Tomato Club, undated.
   
Other Writings
Folder   5     Item   1    
"A Brief Study of the History of Sumner County" by Moore, undated.
Folder   5     Item   2    
Three copies of first page of Civil Government in History of Sumner County, undated.
Folder   5     Item   3    
Five copies of "Epsilum Sigma Phi" , undated.
Folder   5     Item   4    
First 14 pages of letter, entitled "Tee Leaves" , to her Nieces and Nephews, 1937 Sept. 9.
Folder   5     Item   5    
First 15 pages of letter, entitled "Tee Leaves" , to her Nieces and Nephews, 1937 Sept. 9.
Folder   5     Item   6    
Two copies of "A Delayed Wedding Present" for "Tee Leaves" , undated.
Folder   5     Item   7    
Story called "Thigh Leggings" with handwritten notes, undated.
Folder   5     Item   8    
Insert on the summer of 1911, mentions P.P. Claxton, undated.
Folder   5     Item   9    
Page 4 thru 7 recollections, mentions Claxton, undated.
Folder   5     Item   10    
Second page of agricultural information, undated.
   

Series V: Correspondence,

Folder   6     Item   1    
Six copies of an endorsement for the Girls' Tomato Clubs and Moore by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, J.W. Brister in Nashville, Tenn., 1913 May.
Folder   6     Item   2    
First page of letter to Moore from the "Cooperative Extension Work / in / Agriculture and Home Economics, / State of Florida" at the University of Florida, 1923 July 18.
Folder   6     Item   3    
Letter to Wilmon Newell, Director for the Cooperative Extension Work, from Wallace Buttrick about Moore, 1923 July 23.
Folder   6     Item   4    
Letter to Moore from Newell about appointing her as Assistant State Home Demonstration Agent, 1923 Sept. 11.
Folder   6     Item   5    
Telegram to Flavia Gleason from Newell about Moore's appointment, 1923 Aug. 24.
Folder   6     Item   6    
Press Telegram from Capt. Jack De Lysle to Moore about Thomas Edison and rubber tree plants in Florida, with picture of Edison, De Lysle and six others in Fort Myers, 1927 Feb. 27.
Folder   6     Item   7    
Note to Orange-Judd Co. in New York for a book from Moore, 1927 March 2.
Folder   6     Item   8    
Introduction of Moore from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, signed by the Secretary of Agriculture, 1928 Aug. 2.
Folder   6     Item   9    
Introduction of Moore from Newell, 1928 Aug. 17.
Folder   6     Item   10    
Letter to Moore from J.W. Brister, President of the State Teachers College in Memphis, 1928 Dec. 7.
Folder   6     Item   11    
Copy of letter from Moore to "Iter Payshus" ( "Little Precious" , her niece Elizabeth Virginia Eaddy Dameron), 1929 June 8.
Folder   6     Item   12    
Copy of letter from Moore to "Iter Pashus" , 1929 July 22.
Folder   6     Item   13    
First page of handwritten letter from Moore to "Iter Pashus" , 1929 July 22.
Folder   6     Item   14    
Letter to Moore from T.W. Hunter, Supervisor of the Division of Rural Schools in the Tenn. State Dept. of Education, 1929 Aug. 10.
Folder   6     Item   15    
Letter to Moore from T.B. Symons, Chairman of the Committee on Retirement, 1932 Feb. 6.
Folder   6     Item   16    
Telegram to Moore from "M.A.J." about marrying, 1932 July 23.
Folder   6     Item   17    
Letter to Dr. C.W. Warburton, Director of the Agricultural Extension Service, from Moore, 1939 March 17.
Folder   6     Item   18    
Two copies of letter to Moore from Doak S. Campbell, President of the Fla. State College for Women about Dr. Holt's dissertation, 1946 March 7.
Folder   6     Item   19    
Letter to Moore from A.P. Spencer, Director of the Cooperative Extension Work, 1946 May 23.
Folder   6     Item   20    
Letter to Moore from Erwin H. Shinn, Senior Agriculturalist of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Extension Service, 1946 May 27.
Folder   6     Item   21    
Letter to Moore from Helen Cullens, District Agent of the Cooperative Extension Work in Tenn., with the May 11th "script of the Homemakers' Program" on Moore, 1946 June 27.
Folder   6     Item   22    
Letter to Moore from Mary E. Keown, Fla. State Home Demonstration Agent, 1946 June 28.
Folder   6     Item   23    
Three copies of a letter to Ella G. Agnew, first State Collaborator, from Virginia P. Moore, Home Improvement Agent, 1946 June 29.
Folder   6     Item   24    
Condolence letter to Mrs. Bettie Moore Parte on the death of her sister Virginia Moore from H.F. Clayton, Director of the Cooperative Extension Work in Florida, 1950 June 1.
Folder   6     Item   25    
Packet of letters (found clipped together, includes two copies of a letter from Representative Al Gore, Sr.), 1915 October 19 - 1949 April 8.
Folder   6     Item   26    
Anecdote from "Virginia Tee Moore," undated.
Folder   6     Item   27    
Letter to Mrs. Malcolm from Moore, undated.
Folder   6     Item   28    
First page of letter to Mrs. Malcolm from Moore, undated.
   

Series VI: Scrapbook Leaves,

Folder   7     Item   1    
Endorsement for the Girls' Tomato Clubs and Moore by State Superintendent of Public Instruction, J.W. Brister in Nashville, Tenn., encased in scrapbook leaf, 1913 May.
Folder   7     Item   2    
Articles on Moore's retirement and program for the 31st annual short course for Florida 4-H Club Girls, taken from leaf, 1946 June.
Folder   7     Item   3    
Articles and letter to Moore from Mary E. Keown, State Home Demonstration Agent, on Moore's retirement, taken from leaf, 1946 June.
Folder   7     Item   4    
Article, condolence letter from Farris Davis Bauer, and telegram to Mrs. Betty Moore Partee from Mary E. Keown on the death of Moore, taken from leaf, 1950 June
   

Series VII: Articles,

folder.   8     Item   1    
"Montgomery to Improve Schools / Miss Virginia P. Moore Instrumental in Organizing Association at Clarksville, " 1909 Nov.
Folder   8     Item   2    
Two copies of "Interesting Trip of Tomato Club Girls, " by President Jennie Sue Fortner, 1913.
Folder   8     Item   3    
Three copies of "Miss Virginia Moore Makes Talk in Paris," 1937.
Folder   8     Item   4    
The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Magazine cover, with a picture of Cragfont, home to Moore's parents Armistead and Louisa Virginia (Crenshaw) Moore, with information on house, 1970 Nov. 1.
Folder   8     Item   5    
Two copies of clipping about Moore "awarded the Theo Cooley medal" from the Peabody Normal College, undated.
Folder   8     Item   6    
Two copies of article on the 4-H Club of Tennessee, undated.
   

Series VIII: Miscellaneous,

Folder   9     Item   1    
"Objects of the Girls' C. & P. Club Work," undated.
Folder   9     Item   2    
"Home Improvement Bazaar and Demonstrations " for 4-H Club, 14-16 March.
Folder   9     Item   3    
List of events from Moore's life, written by her niece Elizabeth Virginia Eaddy Dameron, undated.
Folder   9     Item   4    
Name card for Moore, undated.
Folder   9     Item   5    
Business card for Moore as Assistant State Agent for the Home Demonstration Work, undated.