Tag Archives: tennessee

Camp Campbell U.S. Army Souvenir Booklet

 Object of the Week American History, material culture, military, print, tennessee, World War II

Camp Campbell U.S. Army Souvenir Booklet, c. 1943-1945, Paper, 12 x 9 inches, Gift of the University of Tennessee Alumni […]

Bird Effigy Pipe

 Object of the Week archaeology, birds, Native American, sculpture, tennessee

Bird Effigy Pipe, Late Woodlands period (1600-1100 years before present), Steatite, 7.75 x 2 inches, Gift of Warren Whittle, 1962.19.2. […]

Painted Portrait of Barbara Blount

 Object of the Week art, Local History, painting, portrait, tennessee

Barbara Blount, 1953, Mary Etta Grainger (American, 1880-1963), Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 36 inches, Gift of the artist, 1900.99.103. The […]

Thomas Humes

 Object of the Week Local History, tennessee

Painting, 1896, Portrait by Lloyd Branson, oil on canvas, 28 inches high, 2008.3.6. Humes served as President of East Tennessee […]

Trunk Pitcher

 Object of the Week Appalachia, tennessee

Wooden Pitcher – Tennessee, early 20th century – This pitcher was carved from the trunk of a small tree as […]

Flag of Knoxville

 Object of the Week flag, Knoxville, tennessee, watercolor

“Flag of Knoxville”: Knox County, TN, 1896. Watercolor by Lloyd Branson.

Christmas Card

 Object of the Week card, christmas, metal, satin, tennessee

Christmas Card: 1883, Morristown, TN. Silk satin with metal cutouts. The inside reads, “CHRISTMAS WISH: May health and joy and […]

Prehistoric American Indians in Tennessee

 Research Notes archeology, humans, plants, pottery, prehistoric, tennessee

by Jefferson Chapman, McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville The state of Tennessee is long and narrow, stretching 432 […]

First Dinosaur Record from Tennessee

 Research Notes dinosaur, skeleton, tennessee

by Jonathan R. Bryan, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee Recently, several dinosaur bones were rediscovered in the paleontological […]

The Watauga Archaeological Survey

 Research Notes reservoir, tennessee, TVA

by C. Clifford Boyd, Jr., Radford University, Radford, Virginia From September 1983 until the end of February 1984, graduate students […]