Title: Ruskin College Collection

Date/Date Range :   1931-1959

Extent: 0.2 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains a book purchased for Ruskin College visitors to sign. It contains twenty-three pages of signatures (and in some cases, addresses) of visitors between 1931 and 1959.

Call number: MS-2357

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

Aquisition Information:

This collection was donated to 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], Ruskin College Collection, MS-2357. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of two folders.

Established in 1904, Ruskin Cave College was located on the former grounds of the Ruskin Colony in Ruskin, TN (Dickson County). Headed by R. E. Smith and Colonel R. J. Kelley, the college provided both male and female students with "the highest spiritual and literary training in the Grammar and High School grades, as prescribed by law, with an excellent course in vocal and instrumental music."

No biographical information is available regarding Mrs. H. N. Dunbar.

For further materials related to Ruskin Cave College, see also MS 2268.

This collection contains a book purchased for Ruskin College visitors to sign. It contains twenty-three pages of signatures (and in some cases, addresses) of visitors between 1931 and 1959. Also included are several pieces of correspondence addressed to Mrs. H. N. Dunbar, a teacher at Ruskin.

• Ruskin College.
• Dickson County (Tenn.) -- History.