Title: 19th and 20th Century Letters and Documents

Date/Date Range :   1851-1924

Extent: 0.5 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection features a number of letters, legal documents, receipts, photographs, and other papers from the second half of the 19th century through the first quarter of the 20th century.

Call number: MS-2514

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

Aquisition Information:

These materials were purchased by Special Collections in August 1991.

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], 19th and 20th Century Letters and Documents, MS-2514. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of five folders.

No biographical information is available.

This collection features a number of letters, legal documents, receipts, photographs and other papers from the second half of the 19th century through the first quarter of the 20th century. The correspondence contains a letter in German dated 1858, as well as more local materials from Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Among the legal documents are a deed of land purchase from Arkansas, a deed of purchase for a cemetery plot in Pennsylvania, and a teacher's license for Erle Drake in Miller County, GA. The folder labeled "Other Papers" contains some handwritten notes, a list of the men in the 17th Tennessee Regiment, Company H, and part of a handwritten sermon from 1836. Two of the photographs in this collection are labeled Dora Hunt on the verso. Also included are the photograph of an unidentified woman and a tintype of a man. The last folder contains deposit slips, a McMinnville tax receipt from 1898, and three loan slips.

• Tennessee -- History.
• Georgia -- History.