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This collection contains Shofar newsletters published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1986 to 2018.

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This collection includes 184 field recordings and interviews totalling more than 400 hours of documentary footage of serpent handling congregations in Southern Appalachia, featuring extensive footage of church services and interviews with church members of many of the major Holiness serpent handling congregations from 1975 to 2004. Additionally, the collection includes more than 2,500 photographic prints of congregants, church leaders, and services.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a photocopied facsimile of Reverend Thomas Hooke McCallie’s autobiography. The original handwritten autobiography was written by Rev. McCallie between 1901 and 1912, and was photocopied by his granddaughter Anne McCallie in 1976, who appended copies of several photographs, a family tree, and other materials documenting the McCallie family. The autobiography documents Rev. McCallie’s childhood and education in Chattanooga, his attendance at Union Theological Seminary...

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This collection contains home movies and photographs that document the Jesus Name Tradition in Appalachia from circa 1970 to 1985.