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Tag: Knoxville TN

orange male/female symbols splitting apart
July 19, 2019 Love and romance / Tennessee

Defendant is amused at the plaintiff’s charges that he was not in love with her

From the divorce case between Walter E. McDaniels and Anna C. McDaniels, Knox County [TN] Fourth Circuit Court, filed July 1926.

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Scots Covenanters
July 11, 2019 Letters / Scots-Irish / Tennessee

Our noblest deeds and characters are forgotten, or misrepresented.

Compared to the Puritans & the Cavaliers, the Covenanters have been neglected and ignored in the history and public thought of the country.

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hodgson's first log house in new market tn
September 24, 2018 Childrens literature / Tennessee

For no reason he knew of he was coming alive with the garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett left an indelible mark on children’s literature, providing a path to the secret garden in all of us.

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editorial cartoon: knoxville mob on gay st august 1919
August 29, 2018 Black Appalachia / Race relations / Tennessee

Knoxville’s Red Summer of 1919

Knoxville, TN up till the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 had always prided itself as a model southern city when it came to race relations.

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Knaffl Madonna (Madonna & Child) glass plate negative. Original 1899 glass plate negative by Joseph Knaffl
May 10, 2018 Photographers / Tennessee

Knaffl & Brakebill Photography Studio experiments with relief imagery

Knaffl & Brakebill went on to receive widespread acclaim for their photographic work in the early decades of this century.

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