Ira Vincent Ragsdale ("Jack"). Professor of math and physics at the University of Tennessee from 1926 to 1943. Shown wearing graduation cap / mortar board. Ca. 1927.
December 16, 1863 letter from Edward Kitchell (98th Ill. Vols., Union Cavalry), Camp near Charleston, Tenn, to 'My Dear Wife' (Mrs. Hattie Kitchell, Olney, Illinois). ALS 8 pp. + envelope with stamp. Page 1. Also, photocopy of typed, annotated...
Tennesseans, Nineteen Hundred and One and Two. The Speed Publishing Company. 1901-1902. 416 pages including index. Photographic portraits of approximately 800 Tennesseans, including Governors. state officers, politicians and business men.
Men of Affairs in Knoxville. Published by Joe L. Baker and Stuart Towe. Knoxville, Tenn. 1917. Printed and Bound by Knoxville Lithographing Company, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Sophronia B. Thompson Ragsdale and daughter Mary Jane Ragsdale (6 months) at Ayres Hall, University of Tennessee (where Mary Jane's father Ira Ragsdale taught math and physics). 1928.
The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings and ephemera concerning women's groups involved in the fight for suffrage at the Knoxville and state levels, as well as other women's issues such as temperance. Each of the fragile items in this scrapbook...