Mine accidents; Memorial rites & ceremonies; Ephemera;
Program for memorial services in memory of those who lost their lives in the Fraterville Mine Explosion at Coal Creek, Tennessee on Monday May 19th, 1902 and in the Cross Mountain Mine Explosion at Briceville, Tennessee on Saturday, December 9th,...
Our Confederate Dead. Oration by Maj. Gen'l Wm. B. Bate, U.S. Senator, on occasion of Unveiling Confederate Monument at Knoxville, Tennessee, May 19, 1892, together with history of Ladies' Memorial Association and other orations and ceremonies...
Knoxville's Million Dollar Fire, April 8, 1897. Booklet published by J.E. Auldridge, Knoxville, Tenn. Features photographs of Knoxville, Tennessee's "Million Dollar Fire" of April 8, 1897. Includes map showing the fire burned district. ...
Reminiscences of Alfred Buffat and Mrs. Elisa Bolli Buffat. Spring Place, Knox County, Tennessee. 1908;1916. Reminiscences of Swiss Americans in Knox County, TN. Copy made by Mrs. C.M. McClung in 1929 from a typed manuscript loaned by Miss Lucy...
Edward F. Buffat, portraits, bandages, wounded, coal miners
Edward F. Buffat, son of Alfred Buffat. Shown in bandages in a dining room, after a coal mine explosion. He later grew a beard to hide scars and was permanently deafened.
Sultana survivors, April 27, 1894. Group of men and one woman, survivors of the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana on April 27, 1865, near Memphis, TN.
Disasters; Steamboat accidents; Steamboats; Group portraits; Veterans;
Sultana survivors. April 28, 1920. Ordered by the Knoxville Journal & Tribune. IDs from May 2, 1920 article in Knoxville Journal: "From right to left--P.M. Keeble, Bank, Blount county, Tenn.; Wallace Milesap, Maryville, Tenn.; G.W. Hulett,...
