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This collection contains a Christmas Hill-O-Gram sent out to the University of Tennessee's staff and faculty. It bears the signatures of many of the University's employees, including president James D. Hoskins, John C. Hodges, Charles Ferris, L. R. Hesler, Nathan W. Dougherty, Ralph Dunford, and Charles Perkins.

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This collection houses two copies of an advertisement for the Annual University of Tennessee Holiday Craft Show, which was scheduled for November 28-29, 2006 in the University Center Ballroom.

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This collection houses photographs, legal documents, correspondence, blueprints, and other materials documenting the history and donation of Hopecote to the University of Tennessee. The images include exterior and interior views, the Hopecote Advisory Committee, donors, antiques, floor plans, and brochures. The legal documents include renovation plans, appraisal information and forms, and donor information.

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This collection contains photographs of Hopecote, an old English cottage style home now owned by the University of Tennessee. These images include exterior and interior views, the Hopecote Advisory Committee, donors, antiques, floor plans, and brochures.

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These materials document the dedication of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy's building on October 31, 2008. Among the items included are the dedication program, a commemorative paperweight given to invited guests, a Baker Center brochure, a Baker Center museum guide, a Knoxville News Sentinel insert discussing the opening, and two copies of the February 2009 News from the Howard Baker Center.

Abstract This collection houses a number of items documenting the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, including two booklets describing the life of Howard Baker, a CD-ROM housing a presentation on Baker, a brochure for the Baker Center, a program for the First Baker Center Breakfast on March 16, 2004, an invitation to a joint reception of the College of Law and the Baker Center on May 26, 2006, two Baker Center newsletters from April 2004 and March 2006, and the minutes of the Baker Center...

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This collection houses a three-volume report documenting the state of the University of Tennessee's Interdisciplinary Programs in 1995.

Abstract In this letter to P. P. Claxton, Irwin Shepard (Secretary of the National Education Association) mentions an upcoming meeting in Denver and describes his service at the Battle of Fort Sanders during the Civil War. He tells Claxton that Knoxville, and especially the grounds of the University of Tennessee, hold a sacred place in my memory and recalls serving on the Fort's parapet during the battle, helping to collect the dead and wounded, and participating in a burning party that destroyed...

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This brochure lists the events that the Issues Committee planned to host during the fall of 1997, including a nuclear physicist lecturing on UFO’s, an animal rights panel discussion, a lecture on ethnic and religious conflict in Latin America, and a lecture on leadership by New York Governor George Pataki. The brochure also provides a list of the Committee's officers and members.

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This collection includes three photos of Joseph Madison "Mat" McCallie from his time at the University of Tennessee, three medals awarded to him, one pair of epaulets, a pamphlet entitled "A Farm Boy in East Tennessee, 1863-1882" which details his life, and issues of the Chi Delta Crescent.

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This collection houses materials documenting the administration of University of Tennessee President J. Wade Gilley, including information on Gilley’s background and newspaper articles about his administration.

Abstract This collection contains material documenting nearly the entirety of Professor Jack Reese's career at the University of Tennessee. Much of this information dates from Reese's time in administrative positions and includes texts of prepared speeches, correspondence with other administrators, professors, and student publications, and items showing position searches. The collection also houses materials documenting Reese's time as Director of the College Scholars Program after his resignation...

Abstract University of Tennessee President James D. Hoskins delivered this address at the University's commencement ceremonies on June 2, 1941. In it, he discusses the ongoing World War and advises the new graduates that unlike young people before them, they cannot issue or evade at will the usual challenges of life nor debate with customary freedom what your major interests will be because they have [w]illingly or otherwise ... already been drafted in the cause of Democracy. According to Hoskins,...

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This collection houses a letter of recommendation that James D. Hoskins wrote for N. H. Bright and sent to the high school at Bernice, Louisiana in 1912.

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This collection houses two letters from James D. Hoskins to Elizabeth A. Lockwood. In the 1946 letter, Hoskins briefly discusses his resignation from the office of the presidency.

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The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, speeches, notes, and other materials documenting James D. Hoskins' work with the University of Tennessee during the 1930s and 1940s. Other materials show his involvement with the Sons of the Revolution, the genealogy of the Hoskins family, and Tennessee history.

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This collection houses James D. Hoskins' research into the history of the University of Tennessee. It documents such topics as the admission of female students, the Summer School of the South, individual faculty members, building dedications, and Hoskins himself.

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This collection houses The Torch freshman magazine for 1937-1938, the University of Tennessee News Letter for June 1937, and a promotional magazine for the Tennessee-Georgia football game in October of 1937 documenting James E. Patterson's time at UT.

Abstract This collection houses set designs, photographs, negatives, and other materials documenting James J. Moran's career in film and theatre. The majority of the items show his work at the University of Tennessee, including his participation in such plays as Lilliom, Ring of the Nibelung, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Our Country's Good. Other materials document his work on such projects as Warner Brothers'...

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This collection contains two copies of a program documenting the naming ceremony for the James R. Cox Auditorium at Alumni Memorial Hall on September 26, 2003 and a program showing the Dedication and Inaugural Concert of the Cox Auditorium Organ on January 21, 2007. The Concert program includes a description of the music played, specifics of the organ, and coming events at the Auditorium in February 2007.