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Natural history -- Tennessee

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jean Miles Catino and Emma Bell Miles papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-078
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Catino's correspondence and papers as well as journals, artwork, and photographs created by Emma Bell Miles, Catino's mother. The Emma Bell Miles content documents mountain life on Walden Ridge in the early 20th century. The collection also includes Catino's correspondence with Emma Bell Miles biographer, Kay Baker Gaston. Materials in the collection are dated from 1866 to 2000.

Dates: 1866-2000
Found in: Manuscripts

Robert Sparks Walker papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-081
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1896-1962
Found in: Manuscripts