Scope and Contents This collection contains Govan's various administrative library documents, correspondence, historical writings, reviews, extensive research notes, and published materials. The library documents contain budget, circulation, and inventory data related to the University of Chattanooga's library during Govan's tenure as its director. Extensive notecards and other materials demonstrate Govan's meticulous research methods. Of interest is correspondence from around the United States congratulating...

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This collection of Chattanooga research notes, photographs, and publications includes research notes, photographs, pamphlets, books, and articles collected by Chattanooga, Tennessee historian Nathaniel C. Hughes. Materials in the collection range from 1861 to 1945 and primarily focus on United States military history.

Scope and Contents This collection includes material relating to the Cherokee Indians and their removal; the Brainerd Mission; the Civil War; the South; the United Daughters of the Confederacy; historical documents (including two letters from Teddy Roosevelt), publications and journals, and literature and art. Also includes materials relating to Chattanooga lawyer and historian, Charles McGuffey (1842-1916), and this portion includes several letters and documents pertaining to his grandfather, the noted...

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This collection contains a photocopied facsimile of McCallie's autobiography covering a period beginning in 1901 and ending in 1912. The Memoirs is a hand-written volume of 153 pages. A transcription of the memoir is available. There are also three letters (photocopies) from 1905 concerning the founding of the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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This collection contains correspondence and phtoographs regarding the history of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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This collection contains papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and other material belonging to Hubert "Hugo" Taliaferro. Jr., an American captured at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 regarding his life, his military service and the Taliaferro family. The collection contains papers and photographs from 1838 September 16 to 1979 May 9.

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This collection contains a two-page edition of the weekly paper This Week in Chattanooga from 1930 November 9.

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This collection contains household items, toiletries and paper artifacts, regarding CHattanooga, Tennessee and other locations circa 1890 to 1989.

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This collection includes correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks, and other personal papers as well as manuscripts and drafts of books, articles, and poetry authored by Robert Sparks Walker, a Chattanooga naturalist, writer, poet, and local historian dating from 1896 to 1962. Highlights of this collection include the manuscript and dummies for Walker's Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Torchlights to the Cherokees: The Brainerd Mission.