Title: Portrait of McKee School Teachers

Date/Date Range :   circa 1865

Extent: .1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains one glass slide photograph of the teachers at McKee School in Nashville, ca. 1865. There are five white women and one white man.

Call number: MS-3054

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

Aquisition Information:

Collection purchased by the UT Special Collections Library in January 2007.

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], Portrait of McKee School Teachers, MS-3054. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of one glass slide.

In 1862, the Reverend O. S. McKee established the McKee School in Nashville, TN, for African-Americans, under the Freedmen's Mission of the United Presbyterian Church. In 1875, the school relocated to Knoxville, TN, and became Knoxville College. The college still serves Knoxville as a liberal arts institution.

This collection contains one glass slide photograph of the teachers at McKee School in Nashville, ca. 1865.

There are five white women and one white man. Back row, left to right: Mrs. Ada McKee, Miss Jennie Huddleson, and Miss Mollie Huddleson. Front row, left to right: Miss Nannie McKee, J. G. McKee, and Miss Aggie Wallace. (Identification from the Album of Knoxville College and other missions among the Freedmen of the United Presbyterian Church in UT Special Collections, Rare Books Division, Call number BX8952.A42 1901.)

• Knoxville College.
• Photographs -- Tennessee.