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T I", yw w", m"keJ hy m,ny mile""n" ;n the Uh"dC" gmwth ,nJ pmg";;. The Tennessee Imperative is close to its $6 million goal to build an endowment for library acqui­ sitions. Soon that goal will be realized, and the Libraries will be able to take advantage of this tremen­ dous source of ongoing support. The Map Library opened for service, with a collection of more than 300,000 maps, atlases and other cartographic materials. This branch library is a resource for all areas of study on campus as well as community planners, genealogists, historians, and teachers. Special Collections was fortunate to acquire the papers of Congressman John J. Duncan and Senator Howard Baker Jr., and the Libraries added over 40,000 volumes to the general collections. We've hired a new Associate Dean for Collection Development and Management, Diane Perushek from Princeton University. In addition to overseeing the selection and acquisition of materi­ als to strengthen the collection, Ms. Perushek is also responsible for the Preservation and Cooperative Information Services programs. Jim Minton is our new head of the Map Library, and Gayle Baker and Jane Row were recently hired as reference service coordinators for science and technology, and social sciences respectively. The Library Friends has also become an active and supportive organization, assist­ ing in increasing community awareness of the Libraries and in fund raising. Such progress in building collections, staff, and support sets the stage for continued growth in the next year, and the marking of more milestones. I hope that you enjoy this year's issue of the Library De­ velopment Review, and that your valued support of the Libraries continues.

Paula T. Kaufman Dean of Libraries

On Cover: Admiral David Glasgow Farragut from a portrait in the Farragut Folklife Museum. Photo By Stan McCleave. THE LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 1989/90 Edited by James B. Lloyd Assistant Editor Laura C. Simic

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2 A Word from Betsey B. Creekmore

3 The News from Huntsville by James B. Lloyd

7 Where the Blues Began by John Dobson

10 Striving for Quality by Laura C. Simic

11 The Lindsay Young Endowment by Milton H. Figg

11 The Admiral from Knox County by James B. Lloyd

15 Politics, Patronage and Whiggery by Curtis Lyons

17 A Handsome Residence now Demolished by Nick Wyman

20 Named Endowments Provide Lasting Support and Tribute by Laura C. Simic

21 The Tennessee Presidents Trust by Paul H. Bergeron and Wayne Cutler

22 Library Events

23 Investing in the Future

24 Private Dollars, Public Treasures

24 Library Endowments

25 The William G. McAdoo Society

25 Library Friends 7

niversity libraries have lost their characteristic aroma of dust and crumbling half~calfbindings. Gone are the dimly~lightedreading tables flanked by penitential chairs, and the towering stacks where a wanted volume was invariably on the top shelf. The banks of file~card drawers have been banished, along with (is nothing sacred?) the Dewey Decimal System. It took years of inspired planning, not to mention generous public and private support, to produce the state~orthe~artJohn C. Hodges Library where the computerized catalogue contains hun~ dreds of thousands of listings. Not every listing represents a book. In the temperature~and~humidity~controlledclimate of this amaz~ ing ziggurat, it is possible to see a Broadway play, read a 19th cen~ tury newspaper on microfiche, listen to the voices of Grace Moore and Enrico Caruso, or design a wildflower garden on a color com~ puter with special software. More than ever, the University of Tennessee's main library is fulfilling its function as an omnium gatherum of knowledge. This is not, however, the only repository needed and provided by the state's major research institution. During the 1930s, the James D. Hoskins Library was accounted the finest in the South. In this building which is both historically and architecturally significant to the campus, Tennessee history is fitted together like a mosaic, from small bits and pieces of the past. Here, the Library's Special Collections include cherished family photographs and letters, rare books and illustrated pamphlets, manuscripts and memorabilia contributed by many donors. (May their tribe increase!) There is an extensive map library, and a sepa~ rate section called The Center for the Study of War and Society. Also in safe~keeping are the private papers of public figures, such as "Parson" Brownlow and Senator Estes Kefauver. The recently es~ tablished Tennessee Presidential Trust sheds light upon the times - and the personalities-ofAndrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson: ours is the only university entrusted with ed~ iting the papers of three Presidents of the United States. These two treasuries are not for the exclusive use of students and faculty, or serious scholars; nor are they open only to alumni who wish to upgrade outdated information, or pursue research on long~term projects. Anyone of us can visit the Special Collections and read the letters written home by a Confederate soldier. We are welcome to drop by today's most techm ally advanced library facil~ ity and see a movie directed by Clarenc,~ Brown, or browse among some 20,000 periodicals. At the University of Tennessee, "library" means a quiet haven for all inquiring minds.

Betsey B. Creekmore THE REVIEW 1989/90

THE NEWS FROM HUNTSVILLE BY JAMES B. LLOYD

SPECIAL COLLECfIONS LIBRARIAN

The Special Collections Library of the University of Tennessee is known for its political papers, perhaps the best known of which and the largest is the Estes Kefauver Collection. This, how­ ever, has been a watershed year for politi­ cal collections, and with the addition of two significant ones, Kefauver may have some rivals. We have been fortunate enough to acquire the Howard Baker Jr. Collection this year, along with that of John J. Duncan, longtime representative of the Second District (Howard Baker Sr.'s and Irene B. Baker's seat), also a Huntsville native and boyhood friend of Howard Baker Jr. What are the odds, one wonders, of two such boys from Huntsville fashioning

John J. Duncan with then-President Ronald Reagan. (From the John J. Duncan Collection.)

the John J. Duncan cussion of its contents is not possible at Collection this point. We do know that the papers Our acquisition of the John J. can be generally divided into office corre­ Duncan Collection began in 1988 when spondence, personal correspondence, then Chancellor Jack Reese wrote a let­ bills, various subject files, photographs, ter of condolence to Mrs. Duncan upon and memorabilia. But we will have to Howard Baker Jr. (Courtesy of the office of her husband's death. He also expressed content ourselves here with an account Howard Baker Jr.) our interest in Congressman Duncan's ofJohn J. Duncan's career, since that is papers which at that time were either what created the collection. When he parallel careers in Republican politics in still in the congressman's office or in passed away on June 21, 1988, Howard Tennessee and in Washington, and then storage outside of Washington. Mr. Dun­ Baker Jr. had this to say about him: having the papers documenting their can's daughter, Becky Massey, saw to John Duncan and I were friends for careers acquired by the Special Collec­ the transfer of the papers to a temporary more than half a century. We played together tions Library in the same year to sit to­ storage area in Knoxville, and, after as boys, and we served together as men, and gether, side by side, in the manuscript some negotiation, early in 1990 they his passing is painful to me.... He took my stack area of Hoskins Library? Yet that is were moved to the Special Collections father's seat on the powerful Ways and Means the case. Library. Committee of the House of Representatives, The Collection, of course, has not but while spending the better part of a quar­ yet been processed, so a meaningful dis- ter-century in the corridors of great power in

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Mrs. Duncan, John}. Duncan, Howard Baker }r., and Ed Boling with the national championshiP University ofTennessee women's basketball team in 1987. (From the John). Duncan Collection.)

Washington, John Duncan was first and last a When Representative Baker died in Tennessean, and proud of it. January of 1964, Duncan did not oppose His unerring focus was always on Irene B. Baker's election to fill out the what was best for Tennessee and its people. term, but at the next general election in He was a champion of localism, a man who November of that year he stood for and liked people one at a time and not just in the abstract, and who believed that government was elected to the seat from Tennessee's was less well se(ved by elaborate theories than Second District. This was at the same by simple justice, human decency, and com­ time that Howard Baker Jr., having de­ mon sense. cided not to run for his father's seat in the House, was waging his unsuccessful The tributes by his colleagues in the campaign against Ross Bass for a seat in House echo the same sentiments. John the Senate. Duncan was a man of the people, and As Congressman, John Duncan their welfare was always most important represented the people of Tennessee in to him. twelve consecutive congresses from 1965 Perhaps this concern with the aver­ until 1988. A conservative, his most well age citizen is because John Duncan never known piece of legislation was the bill to forgot his roots. He was born on March exempt Tellico Dam from the Endan­ 24,1919. The sixth of ten children, his gered Species Act, but he was also in­ family lived on a farm near Huntsville, }ohn }. Duncan from a campaign j1.yer. (From strumental in obtaining wilderness status and he attended the public schools in the)ohn }. Duncan Collection.) for some of Cherokee National Forest in that city. In 1942 he graduated from the Tennessee and in the passage of the Tax University of Tennessee and entered the death in 1959, he succeeded. As mayor Reform Act of 1986. He was a long-time U.s. Army where he served until 1945. of Knoxville he saw to the completion of member of the powerful Ways and He then entered law school, graduated in the Civic Auditorium and the building Means Committee (ranking minority 1947 from Cumberland University, and of Market Square Mall, while at the member from 1985-88) and the senior became the Assistant Attorney General same time putting the city on a sounder House Republican Member of the Joint of the Third Circuit. He served in this financial footing. Committee on Taxation. position until 1956, when he became Di­ Always a loyal Republican, John rector of Law for the city of Knoxville Duncan was Howard Baker Sr.'s cam­ under Mayor Jack Dance, upon whose paign manager in the election of 1954.

4 the Howard Baker Jr. Collection The donation of the Howard Baker Jr. Collection came about through the good offices of University system Presi­ dent Lamar Alexander, aided by Vice President Joe Johnson, Chancellor John Quinn, and Dean of Libraries Paula Kauf­ man. And it follows a family tradition, since Irene B. Baker donated both her papers and those of Howard Baker Sr. to the Special Collections Library (MS-745; see "The Howard and Irene Baker Pa­ pers," Library Development Report 1972­ 73, p. 4). As to the nature of this new Baker collection, it is easier to say at this point what it is not than what it is. The University has generously provided funds to process the collection which, going on our experience with the Kefauver Collec­ tion, we expect to take about two years. There will also be a supplemental video history project to interview Baker's friends and colleagues, but plans for this have not yet been finalized. About all we can say with assur­ ance right now is that the Howard Baker Jr. Collection, which will be closed until 1997, documents his political life from 1964 to 1985 and includes a representa­ tive selection of examples of his favorite pastime, photography. This hobby the JohnJ. Duncan (second from left) and Irene B. Baker. (The SIJecial Collections Library, MS-745.) erstwhile Senator Baker took up when he was twelve, and in fact some of the pho­ tographs in the Baker Sr. Collection may be his. This was in 1937, just before Baker Sr. was nominated for governor, and shortly before Baker Jr. was sent off to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, from which he graduated in 1943. Upon graduation he enlisted in the VIZ Pro­ gram, attended the University of the South and Tulane, and by 1945 was serv­ ing on a PT Boat in the Pacific. When the war ended, the younger Baker then entered law school at the University of Tennessee and graduated in 1949, having been active in campus poli­ tics and president of the student body. He returned home to Huntsville to join the family law firm of Baker and Baker just in time to be his father's campaign manager in his successful run for Con­ gress in 1950. After marrying Joy Dirksen in 1951, Baker Jr. spent the next thirteen years building a reputation in and around East Tennessee as a lawyer of consider­ The Republican Congressional delegation from Tennessee, c. 1973. Back row, 1. to r., JohnJ. able ability. In 1964 when Howard H. Duncan, LaMar Baker, Robin Beard, Dan Kuykendall, Jimmy Quillen. Front row, 1. to r., Howard Baker Sr. died, Howard H. Baker Jr. en­ Baker Jr., and Bill Brock, with Guy L. Smith and George Ed Wilson. (From the JohnJ. Duncan tered politics, but not in the way one Collection.) would have supposed. He was urged to run for his father's Second District con­ gressional seat, which was currently oc-

5 cupied by his stepmother, Irene B. he made an unsuccessful run for the with running repositories never tire of Baker, and which, as discussed above, was Presidency for which he produced No making. Large as they are, these collec- soon to be occupied by John Duncan. Margin for Error: America in the Eighties, tions are more than the sum of their Instead he chose to make a much more a book outlining his political views. In parts because their content is enhanced problematical statewide run for the Sen- 1983 when Senator Baker announced by other collections which are related to r ate against Democrat Ross Bass, who had that he would not seek a fourth term, he them. One can, for instance, follow the the experience of five congressional was perhaps considering another run for workings of government through the terms behind him. Baker was unsuccess- the Presidency in 1988 (his Senate terms eyes of those who occupied the seat from ful in this first effort, Tennessee's Second but he showed much District from 1951- more strongly than 1988, from Howard other recent Repub- Baker Sr. through licans had (47.4% of Irene B. Baker, to the vote), and two John J. Duncan. years later defeated This is important ex-governor Frank not just in a general Clement for the way, but because Senate seat which each seat is linked had once been occu- to membership on pied by Estes particular commit- Kefauver. tees, the actions of The first mod- which over time ern Republican can be traced. And senator from Ten- then there is the nessee, he began his matter of Mr. Ke- distinguished eigh- fauver's senate seat. teen year tenure on Kefauver occupied January 3, 1967. He that one from 1949 is perhaps best until his death in known for the fol- 1962. We also have lowing: the passage the papers of his of the Fair Housing temporary replace- Act of 1968, which ment, Herbert S. might have failed Walters, who held without the support it from 1963 until of Everett Dirksen 1965. We are lack- whose aid he en- ing the papers of listed; the federal Ross Bass, the two air, water, and min- year elected re- ing regulations of placement from the 1970s which 1965 until 1967, proceeded from the but then we pick up Public Works Com- the seat again with mittee of which he Howard Baker Jr., was an active and which brings us to important member 1985. There are, (most notably the of course, letters Environmental Pro- from all these tection Act); the people to each passage of the other, overlapping Panama Canal correspondence to Treaty; and the eco- A young Howard Baker Jr. with his family and Howard Baker Sr. in the elder Baker's office. third parties about nomic recovery pro- (The Special Collections Library, MS-745.) the same events, gram of Ronald mirrored subject Reagan's first term which as majority lasted until January of 1985), but it was files, etc. The connections are so various leader he shepherded through the not to be. Instead he became Ronald that even we are just now beginning to Senate. Reagan's Chief of Staff in 1987 upon the realize their significance.• During these years Senator Baker's resignation of Donald Regan. He held name was often mentioned as a possibil- this office until July, 1988, when he re- ity for either the presidential or vice- signed, citing the health of his wife and presidential office. In 1975 he was a his stepmother. serious contender for the vice-presiden- tial slot with Gerald Ford, for which The acquisition of these collections Robert Dole was chosen, and in 1978-79 illustrates a point which those charged

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Letterhead for the Palace Theatre. (Special Collections Library, MS-1642.)

WHERE THE heyday in the 1920s, the street was were regularly brought to this house and BLUES BEGAN crowded with speakeasies, theaters, eater­ to the Venus Theater that was under the ies, and business establishments of every same management. In addition to out­ BY JOHN DoBSON description. The fact that segregation standing touring acts and plays, the Pal­ SPECIAL COLLECfIONS LIBRARIAN EMERITUS reigned was not a drawback to the frivol­ ace was popular for its "Amateur Nite" ity of the area. No small part of the on Wednesday evenings. Papers ofan uneducated black man street's appeal was its entertainment fa­ From this group of papers recently found at the Chilhowee Park flea market in cilities. There were theaters featuring acquired by the library, it can be deter­ Knoxville have proven to be strong docu­ both motion picture and stage attrac­ mined that "Amateur Nite" was pro­ mentation for the fabled status attributed to tions. The largest "Colored Playhouse" in moted for the Palace management by Beale Street in Memphis. The papers (about the South was the Palace Theater lo­ Malcolm McKay Bonner, onetime head 75 pieces dated 1922-1925) kept by a bell­ cated at 324 Beale Ave. The Palace was bellman for two leading hotels of Mem­ man of the Chisca and Claridge Hotels on erected and operated by Anselimo Bar­ phis. Bonner's papers reveal that his ef­ Main Street, reflect on entertainment activi­ rasso and Lorenzo Pacini. Stage shows forts for the Palace were so successful ties on nearby Beale. Beale Avenue (better that he became known as "The King of known as Beale Street) was the setting for So At Last! "IT'S RIGHT HERE FOR YOU" Amateurs." the bellman's considerable creative efforts. A REAL PROFESSIONAL The greatest promotion for The article below is intended to point up the amateurs began on Wednesday, July significance of these manuscripts in establish­ 25, 1923, with the announcement of ing the history ofan era for which only scant AMATEUR REVUE "Opportunity Week." Circulars called At the evidence survives. In order to retain the the week the biggest contest among character of the papers the quotations follow­ black amateurs ever to be staged in ing have been transcribed without correction. Pa Iate Theatre Memphis. It offered contestants the op­ "Beale Street is where the blues W~dnesday ~ight portunity of their lives to become profes­ began. Rising out of the Mississippi Riv­ sional performers by proving talents and er, it runs for one mile straight through Featuring PROF. HULBERT and his- famous abilities. All acts and performances were the busy heart of Memphis and loses it­ PALM GARDEN JAZZ ORCHESTRA reviewed by the amateur promoter at the Sammie Sawyer, EloiIe Miller, Jot. William., self in the muddy bottom of East Street. Syl.,ester Sneed, uTop Koot" aDd otbers. Venus Theatre, and those selected as The echoes of its fantastic music have Also our newest Special Contest contestants competed on the stage of the been heard around the globe, for this col­ CETTINC OUT OF THE BARRELL Palace Theatre at 9:00 p.m. on Wednes­ orfullittle thoroughfare is known the Don't miss this the Best Amateur Revue of days immediately after the first regular world over; its fame has penetrated into the Season "AMATEUR NITE" "Nuff Sed:' performance. M. McKAY BONNER, Amateur Promot.... every nook and cranny where sound car­ The contest was open to singers, ries the echoes of the English voice." ' Biu..t Show of the N~XT WffK dancers, musicians, comedians, acrobats, These are the opening sentences of a COMING• 'LEE'S eREou" BELLES' L skaters, jugglers, magicians, or any other 2 5-----P EO PL E-----2 5 1934 book about the legendary avenue suitable classes of entertainers. Winners written by George W. Lee. Handbill promoting "Amateur Nite" at the from each night were awarded $5.00; Beale Street has been called the Palace Theatre. (Special Collections Library, they then competed on the final night to "Main Street of Negro America." In its MS-1642.) determine a grand winner. The winner of

7 first honors on the final night of "Oppor_ tunity Week" was offered a contract to appear at the Palace Theatre the follow­ ing week on the regular bill. The win­ ning performer was rewarded with $75.00 ,. for the week's run. A circular signed by enos Theatre M. McKay Bonner, Amateur Promoter, ended with the promise: "No pains or TWO NIGHTS expense will be spared in making this one of the most unique affaires ever staged at this theatre, come and see for your self." Promotion of amateurs was not Bonner's only contribution to the opera­ TUfS. &WfD., JUNf 21-22 tion of Barrasso's and Pacini's Beale Street Theatres. He tried his hand in many directions. Among his papers are M. MeKA Y BONNER-/tf-< examples of work as a composer, a play­ ------PRESENTS----- wright, and a critic. His music was used as part of productions he staged on Beale Street. In 1921, 1922, and 1923 his musi­ cal comedy, Hot Razz from Hushpuckna OOT RAZZ fROM UUSUPUCKANA was presented at the Venus Theatre for short engagements. Sometime he ap­ peared in these presentations. Lyrics for one of his songs, "She's Just a Seal Skin !Ii A MUSICAL !Ii Brown," are representative of his work: COMEDY

Now good people won't you listen here, while of a BILLION LAUGHS and First Class performances. eo '" CAST OF PEOPLE 50_ The Biggest and Best Entertainment ever before attempted by ameteurs in the ci ty. Presented I whisper something in your ear. with an incomparable cast of local talent. It's bout a girl who just hit this town, no not a yellow just a seal skin brown. --FEATURING-- She stands five feet and wears high price gowns, ..very things fits her from her head on down. ~feKay Bonner~ Hi1.D8«:-li Dark brown eyes and cole black hair, no one in town to compare Misses Mercere Crittenden, Rebecca Bonner, CHORUS She is the sweetest thing in town, Susie Peebles, Adma Green. Maderia Bradshaw, and she's just a seal skin brown. To see her walk you'er bound to fall­ Vivian Webb, Mamie Crittenden, Leroy House. I'll say she's got'em that's all. --HARMONY BOYS QUARTET CON SIS TIN G 0 F-- he's every things that a good man needs- . Lester Jones, Robert Lynk, A. 8. Gregory and G. W. Whitney. Others, Misses Alice Fitzhugh, Delma Hill, Florine McGowan, Johnella Smith, Lousie Cole, Edna Plunkett, and she's th kind that's bound to please. Messrs. Henry Saddler, Jr. and Alphonso Boone. M~ furnisMd bY THE SUPERB ORCliESIU She ain't no dark not a yellow at all. This is to be the greatest attraction of the season. Don't fail to see our own boys and girls display their she's just a seal skin brown that's all. wonderful talent. 2 nights only, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 21 and 22, 1921. Show begins prorr-pt­ Iy at 8,15 p. m. Net Proceeds Benefit Memphis Lyceum. Functioning as a critic, McKay TICKETS on Sale: Palace Drug Store, So. Mphs. Drug Co., Klondyke Drug Co., Panama Cafe and Bonner wrote reviews of Beale Street en­ Jackson's Drug Store. tertainments for Memphis and Chicago Res~rve newspapers. From clippings and type­ ADMISSION: Box Seat 7Sc SOc Gen. 2Sc scripts in Bonner's files the flavor of Memphis stage offerings can be experi­ Handbill promoting a Bonner /)roduction at the Venus Theatre. (Special CoLlections Library, MS-1642.) enced. In a letter of April 25, 1923, to Tony Langston of the Chicago Defender, Now Mr. Langston if you can find many tears shedded in a theater as I did dur­ Bonner reported: space enough for this article, I would like ing the performance of 'Over the Hill.' From for you to let the world know that Memphis the beginning, one's mind drifted from the I know you are not accustomed to re­ just witnessed the performance of one of the theater and appeared as though witnessing a ceiving letters from me, but I happened to greatest aggragations of dramatic stars in the scene in real life. Miss. Desmond's portrayal become so inthused over the performing of country, and with out a doubt the greatest of the Mother, was supreme in every respect the famous Lafayette Players, headed by Mr. that has ever played these parts. The writter and pressed deep into the hearts of the audi­ Andrew Bishops and Miss. Cleo Desmond, has witnessed most of the white Dramatic ence. Their last presentation here was the who has just completed a two week engage­ players that have appeared here, but none 'Spider.' A play that brought to the front ment here at the Venus Theater, I was com­ has so impressed me as that of the Lafayette most of the cast, and added a finishing touch pelled to blow right out to Mr. Barasso, the Players. to their stay, that will make things safe for an manager of the Palace and Venus Theaters, During their two weeks here they early return engagement. just what I thought of them. He told me to presented to Memphis theater-goers four grip­ Mr. A. Barasso has said that no com­ tell it to The Defender so they could tell it to ping Dramas, namely, 'What every girl should pany is to good to play these houses, and if the world and now I am blowing it rights out know,' 'Over the Hill,' 'Bought and paid for' they are available he will get them. to you. and 'The Spider.' Never before have I seen so

8 --~------Thursday night for white's only, which elimi­ nated the awful congestion which have occmed at the regular mid-night ramble Fri­ Burchett's Beauty Shop day night, which night was Colored only. I and Laboratory must say that the white audience which filled the theatre even to standing space, applauded Founder and Manufacturer to the efforts of these artists as heartily as of the could be expected from any audience, and when Bessie Smith made her appearance and Nevel' Fail Burchett System of sung 'T'aint no body's business if I Do,' the results of their applauds rocked the house. ToUct PrepaI alions Of Bessie Smith's performances, Paul Cuppock in his 1980 book, Memphis ••• Memoirs remarks: "Without theatrical staging or showmanship, Bessie Smith Phone for an engagement and simply took stage center and shouted her have your beauty work done.at blues. The applause was a tumult when your convenient hour. she appeared on the Palace stage in Phone Main 9167 Memphis and other black theaters of the South, or in Harlem, or on the South Side of Chicago. But when she made a 316 Beale Ave. Mem~his. Tenn venture into the world of New York nightclubs, the white public turned such a cold shoulder that her act was closed Program of the II after three nights." Cuppock also com­ II mented on the great popularity of Ethel FAMOUS LAFAYETTE j' Waters, who appeared at least twice at ~ the Palace. PLAYERS The "Midnight Ramble" men­ IN tioned in the second letter to Langston II was an extra show held an hour before "What Every Girl Should Know" midnight for a white audience. This per­ formance offered an opportunity for whites to see the song and dance acts Venus Theatre running that week for blacks. The show­ ing for blacks was put on at the regular Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, II hour, but on Thursdays it was repeated as a midnight special. Young white men in April 16-17-18th droves attended the "Ramble" and so did white couples. The block between Her­ nando and Fourth was the center of night Send your Cleaning and Pressing to , life, and in his book Beale Street: Where the Blues Began, George Lee said: "On The National Cleaners " Thursday nights the block belongs to the Thi"d and Vance II white people. They come in evening dress in high-powered cars, in overalls ~ ~: ;=:~:~~~~w-,~~_.=~::';~::~~.~.~~~]j and Fords, to see the scantily clad brown Program for the Venus Theatre. (Special Collections Library, MS-1642.) beauties dancing across the stage in the midnight show at the Palace." The "Ramble," with a $.75 admis­ Bonner's enthusiasm for Beale admission to each nights performance. The sion, became popular and packed the Street entertainment was again expressed attendance was so great Wednesday night, whole theater with white people, mostly in a letter to Langston dated September which usually is 'Amateur Night' at this in ordinary dress with only a few in eve­ 15, 1923. He wrote of the wide attention house, that after the first performance was over and the usual amateur contest omited in ning clothes. Underworld figures were in created in Memphis among "both Col­ order to allow an early admittance to a crowd regular attendance, including fancy ored and White" with the personal that had stood out side anxious for admit­ women in fancy outfits. To again quote appearance of "the world's famous Co­ tance through out the entire first show, four Cuppock, "In this atmosphere, going lumbia Record Star Miss Bessie Smith," abrest and extending in line a half block down to Beale Street at midnight was an who with an all star vaudeville bill played away, the management was forced to throw offbeat thing to do. Those in search of the Palace Theatre the week of Septem­ up the bars again. This left so many out side the unusual swelled the crowd of ticket ber 10. He commented, holding tickets that Mr. Barasso, the manager of the Palace, decided that the only ligetimate buyers who enjoyed the moaning blues This Blues artist proved to be such a way of handling the situation was to put on and the beat of jazz of the kind now wonderful draw, that it was impossible for the another show making three shows for that known as Dixieland." management to accomidate all who came for night. A special midnight show was put on Many composers and performers

9 associated with Beale Street are STRIVING FOR QUALITY Mr. Thompson's death. Today, Mr. Young well known. W.e. Handy, Alberta By LAURA e. SIMIC remains a director of the Sun Oil Com­ Hunter, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters pany of Knoxville. have been acclaimed on the national DIREcrOR OF DEVELOPMENT Mr. Young's experiences through­ scene, as have popular songs such as out his career have whet his thirst for "Memphis Blues," "St. Louis Blues," and "The truth is, unless you can have general knowledge. He continues to be "Beale Street Blues." Lesser known artists a good quality of life along with it, mon­ an avid reader. Historical biographies are like McKay Bonner, who also played parts ey isn't all that important." A sound a favorite, and with that comes a strong in developing the colorful stature at­ philosophy, spoken by a true philanthro­ belief in the importance of the study of tained by this small section of downtown pist, Mr. Lindsay Young. history. Memphis, deserve to be recognized. Young doesn't agree with the "I had a young man working in my Although'Beale Street entertain­ philosophy espoused by many today, that yard temporarily, and I asked why he was ment continued to thrive throughout the "you have to make a big buck in order to doing that. His friend said 'He's a grad­ 1930s, issues involving segregation and be successfuL" Although some would uate of Duke, but he majored in history, censorship were eroding night life activi­ consider Young to be a success by that so where else could he get a job but in ties. In any case, McKay Bonner left standard, Young's philosophy is governed your yard?' I am so opposed to that no­ Memphis about 1925 and his personal by quality, rather than quantity. tion that I want to help make it worth­ accounts of the area and its performers "I think that being exposed to the while for people to major in history and ceased. An undated news release (appar­ humanities and to all sorts of literature English." ently written by Bonner) found among and publications will enhance the quality Mr. Young is doing something. The his papers stated: "M. McKay Bonner, for of life, and enable people who are success Lindsay Young Endowment is already years known as The Local King of Ama­ oriented to enjoy that success all the making that qualitative difference in the teurs, bieng one of Memphis' best Play­ more," Young asserts. collections, making possible the purchase writes, Artists and Promoter of Amateur As a clear demonstration of his of the papers ofJames Agee, first editions Theatricals, originater of the famous philosophy, early last year, Mr. Young of Charles Dickens' novels, and provid­ 'Amateur Night' at the Palace Theatre, gave one million dollars to the Univer­ ing the Library with the resources to bid Beale Ave., presently elected Secretary of sity Libraries to establish the Lindsay for the Harriette Arnow manuscripts. the largest and financially strongest Blue Young Library Endowment to be "used The Endowment will provide a source of Lodges in the state of Tennessee: A for special acquisitions that will make a income in perpetuity to augment the Shriner and 32 degree Mason, a member qualitative difference in the collection." quality of the Library's collections, en­ of the Elks and Chairmen of the Enter­ A 1935 graduate of the University hancing the quality of life for all those tainment Committee of the H.LM.e. of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Law, who take advantage of the Library's [Hotel Men's Improvement Club] left Young believes his legal training not only wealth of resources.• Memphis Wednesday night to take prepared him for a career, but helped to charge of the new Kentucky Hotel, Louis­ shape his perspective on life. "I think law ville, Ky., under the management of Mr. gives you more insight than a lot of W.G. Slagle, former manager of the people have into other positions, into ... Chisca and Claridge Hotels of Memphis, other views than you would ordinarily who Mr. Bonner has served as Head have. The best advocates can see the Bellman at botb hotels. Mr. Bonner will other side." be greatly missed in Memphis as he was Both of Young's grandfathers, his known and liked by the majority of the father, and brother were Tennessee law­ intire population of the colored race of yers, and even though he followed in the city and most of the white people of their footsteps originally, Young found whome he came in contact with." the corporate practice of law "a little Bonner's departure from the Mem­ too slow," so he ventured into the coal phis scene interrupted his glowing mining business. "There's more action accounts of Beale Street life. His contri­ there," Young says. "I'm not as patient as butions to a phase of local history in the I should be." form of reviews, promotions, and crea­ In 1945, Young joined the Garland tive efforts have considerable importance Coal Company, founded by Frank Gar­ as chronicles of a developing regional land and headed by B. Ray Thompson, metropolis. The circumstance that pre­ Sr., as general counsel and director. In vented his theatrical work from extend­ the late 1950s, Mr. Thompson formed his ing into another decade represents a loss own business, and Mr. Young became to historians of the period. Beale Street general counsel and one of the original had a major role in establishing the un­ officers, directors, and stockholders of ique personality of Memphis, and records the B. Ray Thompson Coal Companies. left by players like Bonner do much to He continued to serve in these capacities verify Beale Street's reputation.• until the Thompson Companies merged with the Sun Oil Company in 1979. Mr. Thompson, also a UT benefactor, and Mr. Young remained close friends until

10 THE ADMIRAL FROM KNOX COUNTY BY JAMES B. LLOYD

SPECIAL COLLECfIONS LIBRARIAN

Much like the James Agee Collec­ tion on which we reported last year, the acquisition (I use the term advisedly; see below) of the David Glasgow Farragut Collection began with a simple event which none of us at the time would have believed would eventually lead to the Town of Farragut's purchase of it, and the subsequent deposit of its manuscript portion in the Special Collections Library. It all began with a phone call in the winter of 1989 from Mrs. Mary Nell McFee, who had been put in charge of collecting some display material for the Farragut Folklife Museum to be in Far­ ragut's new town hall, in search of some­ thing, anything, to do with Admiral Farragut which might be copied and dis­ played. We did not have much which could be of use for such a purpose, though we did have a good Farragut let­ ter from 1860 which we had just pur­ Monographs and microforms to support architecture, history and religious studies have been selected for chased, and one from 1863, which had purchase with the Lindsay Young Endowment. occasioned the last mention of Farragut in this publication, "Even the Deeds of THE LINDSAY YOUNG Subject areas benefiting from this the Great Are Soon Forgotten," by ENDOWMENT year's purchases include Architecture, Stephen C. Wicks in the 1986/87 issue. BY MILTON H. FlOG Art, Classics, English, Foreign Lan­ Letters, alas, are not particularly eye­ guages, History, Medieval Studies, Music catching, thus not good display items. So COLLECfION DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIAN and Religious Studies. Many of the titles I was not much help and could only wish purchased can also be used by other sub­ Mrs. McFee well in her quest. Little did During the past year the members ject areas. Representative titles include either of us expect at the time that she of the Lindsay Young Endowment Fund Mies Van der Rohe Archive, Parts I and II, would be so successful. Selection Advisory Committee have Modem Art ofJapan since 1950, Diction­ When I next heard from her, she worked diligently to select titles for pur­ naire Etymologique de Langue Grecque, chase. The committee was composed of Inscirptiones Graecae, Charles Dickens Re­ five teaching faculty members and three search Collection, Die Deutschen Literatur­ library faculty members during its first Zeitschriften 1850-1880, Black Workers in year in existence. The overall charge to the Era of the Great Migration 1916-1929, the committee from Dean Paula Kauf­ Repertoire Bio-Bibliographique des Auteurs man was to recommend titles for pur­ Latins, Patristiques et Medievaux, Pali Text chase that would enhance the quality of Society , Texts and Translations and]ohann the Library's collections as well as its re­ Christian Bach 1735-1782: Collected search contents. Works. Also, various formats of materials Teaching faculty members of the have been acquired, including mono­ committee were responsible for polling graphs, reference sets, microforms and various departments in the humanities musical scores. for suggestions. Requests were received The establishment of the Lindsay from all areas of the humanities. After Young Endowment is a perfect example careful review by the selection commit­ of what an individual or a group of indi­ tee, recommendations were made to the viduals can do to provide long-term fi­ Library's Dean for approval. All recom­ nancial assistance for the UT Knoxville mendations submitted were approved for Libraries. Endowments are extremely purchase. Overall, the Library's collec­ helpful for publiC institutions that con­ tions will be greatly enriched by the addi­ tinually face budget woes during the aca­ tion of over forty new titles. demic year. • A vigilant Admiral Farragut. (From the Farragut Collection.)

11 Thus this collection made its jour­ ney back to Campbell's Station, now Farragut, where the first Admiral had begun his on July 5, 1801. His father, George, had settled there at least as early as 1792, as he is carried on the rolls of the militia district of Washington (East Tennessee) for the year 1792-93. In 1807 George moved with his family to New Orleans, where his wife died shortly af­ terward (1808). He first received an ap­ pointment as sailing master in the U.S. Navy and was assigned command of a UNITED STATES STEAMER HARTFORD. gunboat at New Orleans. Then in 1809 I't·~·in·il Outline rlrawing, showing hlt... ill bnHle lIf )'lobilt' Bn}'. he was transferred to the naval station there, a fact which was to have a lasting The Hartford after the battle of Mobile Bay. (War of the Rebellion, Series I, Vol 21 , Washingwn: impact on young David's life, as it occa­ G.p.a., 1906, p. 436.) sioned the family's caring for, during his last illness, one of George's colleagues at had been in contact with Captain Roger in sharks' (?) teeth and ostrich eggs. And the naval station, the father of Commo­ Pineau, former director of the Navy Mu­ then there were the manuscripts, which dore David Porter. The following is Far­ seum in Washington, who had custody of were deceptively unexciting next to the ragut's own account of the incident from a large collection of Farragut artifacts and artifacts. It was not until we were able to his journal (which is not part of the col­ manuscripts which the owner wished to compare their contents with the biogra­ lection): "It is to this circumstance that I sell, and which, in fact, was about to be phy by Farragut's son, Loyall, that we re­ am indebted for my present rank in the sent off to auction. Knowing of our inter­ alized that this material filled gaps in the navy of the United States. Not long after est, Mrs. McFee very kindly provided us published work and thus would likely be his father's death, Commander David with a copy of the inventory, which had of considerable research interest to Porter took command of the Naval Sta­ been sent by Captain Pineau, along with present scholars. tion at New Orleans, and having heard the exciting information that the Mu­ The collection had been originally that his father died at our house, and had seum Committee was considering the put together by this son and had since received some attention ..., he deter­ collection's purchase. The Committee, been in the hands of several private col­ mined to visit and adopt such one of the composed of Mrs. McFee, Curator, Doris lectors who had added to it to the point children as desired to go with him. He Owens, Carl Bacon, Bill Dunlap, Mac where the inventory amounted to some accordingly came to see us and after a Abel, Ann Balitsaris, Millie McBride, forty-three pages. The present owner had while the question of adoption was put to Frank Russell, Robert Linsell, Linda entrusted it to Captain Pineau who had us all, when I, being inspired by his uni­ Ford, Opal Raby, Jan M. Johnson, and done the inventory and who had been form and that of my brother William, f Mayor Robert H. Leonard, responded to searching for several years for a donor to who had received an appointment in the Captain Pineau's offer with a set of ques­ purchase the collection for the Naval Navy some time before, said promptly tions, thus opening negotiations. A del­ History Foundation. Such an individual that I would go." egation from Farragut composed of Mrs. not having been found, the owner was Farragut followed Porter to Wash­ McFee, Mayor Leonard and Alderman now willing to sell to the Town of Far­ ington in 1810 and at the ripe age of Jeff Dobson then visited the Naval His­ ragut, should that be the desire, which, nine was appointed midshipman in the tory Foundation in Washington, D. C. eventually, it was. U.S. Navy. He accompanied Comman­ to inspect the collection in company The town, under the leadership of der Porter on his next assignment as cap­ with Captain Pineau and the present Mayor Leonard, initiated a fund drive to tain of the frigate Essex in August of writer, who was in town on other library secure the entire collection, and after 1811. On the 18th ofJune of the follow­ business. several months was successful. The pur­ ing year the United States Congress de­ We were conducted by Captain chase was effected and the collection clared war on Great Britain, and the Pineau into the storage area of the Naval moved to a temporary location in Far­ Essex, under Porter, began its celebrated History Foundation where, among the ragut. We here watched these develop­ cruise in the Pacific, finally succumbing battleship replicas, Fiji (?) masks, demi­ ments with more than passing interest, to superior British forces in the harbor of canons, and gongs, were several crates since we had all along been discussing Valparaiso in 1814. housing the Farragut artifacts and two the possibility of storing the manuscripts Captured, paroled, and exchanged, small manuscript boxes full of papers. In for the town which, after all, was prima­ Farragut began his long rise through the these esoteric surroundings we examined rily interested in the artifacts for the naval ranks, becoming a lieutenant in the books, photographs, prints, scrolls, Folklife Museum. In this manner the 1825. On September 24th, 1823, he mar­ personal memorabilia, manuscripts, and unity of the collection could be preserved ried Susan C. Marchant of Norfolk, Vir­ scrimshaw, which composed the collec­ (relatively speaking) and the manuscripts ginia, and from that time until the Civil tion. Of particular visual interest were could be housed in a research library War forced his removal, he considered Farragut's framed commission, his epau­ where they could be supported by other that city to be his home, although he was lets, insignia, sword, a model of his ship, original collections and made available always carried on the naval rolls as being The Hartford, and the scrimshaw, which to the national community of scholars from Tennessee. His first wife died in consisted mostly of battle scenes carved through various reporting mechanisms. 1840, and he then married Virginia

12 Loyall, also of Norfolk. During these flagship, the steam sloop Hartford. In the years Farragut was either stationed in ensuing battle Farragut daringly ran his Norfolk or on active duty, mostly with fleet past the forts protecting New Or­ the Mosquito Fleet in the Gulf of Mexico leans instead of attempting to reduce attempting to quell the piracy rampant in them, then destroyed the Confederate that area. fleet and seized the defenseless city. This In 1841 he became a commander victory was of great morale as well as and began his career as a ship's captain in strategic importance, and it made 1842 on the sloop Decatur. In 1845 when Farragut the leading naval officer for the war with Mexico became imminent, Far­ rest of his career, as evidenced by the ragut, always ambitious, began to lobby fact of his promotion to the country's for duty in the Gulf and was finally sent first rear-admiralship on July 30, 1862. in 1847, but arriveJ too late to play an Throughout the rest of the war active part in the surrender of Vera Cruz. Farragut continued to command the The early 1850s saw Farragut in Norfolk blockading fleet in the Gulf, and won and Washington on ordinance duty, and another outstanding victory in Mobile the latter part of the decade he spent on Bay in August of 1864. This battle as the west coast setting up a navy yard. mentioned, we have had occasion to de­ The start of the Civil War found scribe before, and it was here that him back in Norfolk awaiting reassign­ Farragut is supposed to have uttered his ment, but his unionist sympathies caused famous quote, "Damn the torpedoes. Full his removal to New York. In 1861 he was speed ahead," as he led his fleet past the appointed to command the West Gulf forts defending the Bay and across a line Lieutenant Farragutc. 1830. (Farragut, Loyall, Blockading Squadron with orders to cap­ of mines which were then called torpe­ The Life of David Glasgow Farragut, New ture New Orleans, and he sailed in com­ does. As in New Orleans, he was again York: Appleton, 1879, Frontispiece.) mand of this fleet in 1862 aboard his new successful in this tactic, and subsequently

Midshipman Farragut entering the service on board the Essex. (Headley, P.C., Life and Naval Career ofYice-Admiral David Glascoe Farragut. New York: Appleton, 1865, Frontispiece.)

13 Letter from Farragut to his wife before the battle ofMobile Bay. (Farragut, Loyall, The Life of David Glasgow Farragut, New York: Appleton, 1879, p. 404-5.) dispersed the Confederate ships and took There is nothing like reading someone's the forts commanding the entrance to own words in his own hand to give a the bay. This feat prompted President sense of the man, himself. We are most Lincoln and the Congress to create the happy to join with Farragut in com­ rank of vice-admiral for him, and secured memorating one of Tennessee's most fa­ him the gratitude of the union. He was mous sons. We commend the Museum later made a full Admiral when that rank Committee, Mayor Leonard, and the citi­ was created by Congress in 1866, and it zens of Farragut for having had the fore­ was conferred upon him by fellow Ten­ sight to enter into this agreement, and nessean Andrew Johnson. we hope that this example of cooperation Farragut was given a hero's wel­ between a Tennessee community and the come when he arrived in New York, University will hereafter prove the rule, where he was presented with a purse of not the exception. $50,000 by the citizens in recognition of his exploits. He settled in that city until his death in 1870, and his residence is commemorated by various statues there today. None of these monuments, how­ Farragut at the Battle of New Orleans. Adams, ever, have the immediacy of the collec­ W.H. Davenport, Farragut and other Great tion which the Town of Farragut has Commanders, London and New York: George been kind enough to share with us. Routledge and Sons, n.d., Frontispiece.)

14 POLITICS, PATRONAGE Knoxville Whig newspapers spoke of AND WHIGGERY East Tennessee secession from the state in 1849, East Tennessee politics had BY CURTIS LYONS been centered upon the wealthy and SENIOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT learned men of Knoxville, Greeneville and Jonesboro. It is in this context of Whig triumph and spoils that the fractur­ The stage was set in 1849 for a ma­ ing of the Whig party in East Tennessee jor political upheaval. General Zachary occurred. Taylor had ridden his Mexican War There the traditionally minor Fed­ victory over Santa Anna to the Whig eral position of postmaster became a nomination for the Presidency and his point of contention over whether the successful election to the White House. Whigs would resume the spoils system or His defeat of Democrat Lewis Cass led to appoint men to office based upon merit the replacement of Democratic Polk ad­ alone. Tennessee became a focal point ministrators from cabinet members on due to the presence of Hall, one of only a down to the lowest Federal officials. In- few Tennesseans in a high position in the Taylor administration, who was therefore called upon to exert his influence on all types of problems. Hall found himself in an unenvi­ able position which his background had not prepared him for. A noted Nashville Whig editor in the 1820s and 1830s, he broke into political life when he was ap­ Thomas A.R. Nelson, "1 am a born Whig . .. 1 pointed charge d'affaires to Venezuela in have always entertained a profound abhorrence of 1841. After Polk was elected to the Presi­ the practices and principles ofmodem democracy dency, Hall became a victim of the Dem­ and ... made it an invariable rule to denounce ocratic spoils system and returned from those principles and practices in the severest his mission to Nashville to edit the Nash­ terms." (Alexander, Thomas B., Thomas A.R. ville Whig. With Taylor's election came Nelson of East Tennessee, Nashville: Tennes­ Hall's appointment to the Register of the see Historical Commission, 1956, Frontispiece.) Treasury in Washington, an influential job for one so lacking in administrative James W. Campbell, Postmaster from experience (not unlike Taylor himself). 1841-1845, to the position in Knoxville The first question which Hall and against the removal of Dr. Chester, found brought to his attention was Democratic Postmaster ofJonesboro. As Zachary Taylor, "Old Rough and Ready," 12th whether the democratic postmasters of he explained, "in Counties or towns President of the United States. (General Taylor East Tennessee should be replaced. The where the Democrats have a large major­ and His Staff Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot & administration's directive was clear: re­ ity, I would say let them keep their Post­ Co., 1848, Frontispiece.) place the Democratic officeholders with masters and little officers. So that, as loyal Whigs, especially in predominantly these officers are very numerous and dif­ deed, one of the few things one will see Whig districts. The problem of local fused among the people, whenever a mentioned about Taylor in even the postmasters, whose appointments lay in Democratic demagogue begins to talk shortest biographical sketches (even the hands of Postmaster General Jacob about 'the guillotine', the Whig Orators shorter than usual considering he died on Collamer, was thrust upon him by Ten­ and Editors throughout the union may July 9,1850, within two years of his elec­ nessee Whig friends. Showing wisdom, refer to cases right at home." tion) is that he reinstituted the spoils he immediately consulted other noted Although acknowledging the Polk system. Whigs in the area, including T.A.R. administration's placement of Democrats It is within this context that docu­ Nelson ofJonesboro. Nelson's letter of in all branches and levels of the govern­ ments recently acquired through gift May 22, 1849, reveals one side of the is­ ments, Nelson cautioned Hall that they funds by the University of Tennessee sue very clearly. He believed that "all the should "not like to follow in the footsteps Special Collections Library can be inter­ important offices-such as foreign minis­ of our illustrious predecessors." Finally he preted. The four letters were written by ters, charges, heads of bureaus, fiscal states that "I presume that you never prominent East Tennesseans to Allen A. agents, etc., should, as a general rule be lived, as I have since 1842, in a Demo­ Hall, Tennessean and Register of the filled by Whigs: but the little post offices, cratic District and, altho' you may imag­ Treasury, concerning the spoils system and similar small appointments (except ine, yet you cannot fully know, what a with relation to the appointment of post­ in clear cases of incompetency) should be weapon such a removal would be in the masters in 1849. These letters, supple­ allowed to remain as they are." In fact, hands of Andy Johnson & other dema­ mented by newspapers and other letters, Nelson was pleased that Hall had fol­ gogues." These actions, if not thought form the basis of this article. lowed his earlier advice in seeing to the out, could prove detrimental to East Ten­ The East Tennessee Whigs had retention of the incumbent Democratic nessee Whigs. always been strong. While the state was Postmaster in Blountville. He further Another of the opinion that a largely democratic, to the point that recommended the re-appointment of Whig spoils system would be detrimental

15 was Emerson Etheridge, U.S. Whig Sena­ ousted from the positions which were Brownlow's faction favoring Temple and tor from Tennessee. His letter to Hall, opened by the ousting of the Whigs four Crozier's favoring Rogers. On these two dated July 1, 1849, was in response to a years earlier. Brownlow's Knoxville news­ contests the results would split. petition which had been signed and filed paper (issued under various names but Regarding the Knoxville Postmas­ by Whigs of Weakley County who sought commonly known as Brownlow's Whig) tership, Brownlow's position, at which to replace the Democratic Postmaster of served as his voice in this matter. one seldom has to guess, can be summed Dresden. Etheridge was furious at this The more moderate Whigs won up from a letter to Hall dated June 19, suggestion since the incumbent had "to­ the debate and only a limited number of 1849, "Why on Earth don't [Postmaster tally abstained from all interference in Democrats were replaced. Now the General] Collamer appoint James C. political affairs and has not distributed factionalization entered its second stage Luttrell Po t Master of the town?" He documents free on which postage should with the naming of their Whig replace­ asserted that "Luttrell's petition is before have been charged." Therefore, Etheridge ments. In this struggle there were two him with 600 signatures to it, and Bell's requests that "the action of the Depart­ and various other letters urging it." ment'may be suspended until the secret Brownlow makes it clear in his Whig that movement of a few inconsiderate Whigs be there is a conspiracy by the owners of the set right." Register (Sneed, Crozier, Campbell and Etheridge's letter illustrates a prac­ Swan) against him and his faction. Nev­ tical consideration other than favoritism ertheless, apparently Brownlow's faction concerning the postmaster positions. was strong enough, as Luttrell's appoint­ Coming out of four years under the ment to the Knoxville Postmastership Democratic Polk administration and with was approved. a hotly contested gubernatorial race oc­ The naming of U.S. District Attor­ curring between incumbent Whig Neil B. ney for East Tennessee was another mat­ Smith and another Mexican war hero, ter, and appears to have called for classic Democrat William Trousdale of Sumner KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE: political manuevering. After being as­ County, the local Whigs feared the im­ sured by many that he had the position, SATURDAY JULY 28 1849. pact of free delivery of campaign litera­ O.P. Temple discovered that Col. ture by the Democrats. Masthead of Brownlow's Whig, Whig Samuel Rogers had been appointed. The On the other side of this debate newspaper from 1849-1883. (Brownlow's swing recommendation for this position was that indomitable East Tennessean Whig, july 28,1849.) came from John Cocke, who had origi­ vocal in any debate, the Rev. William G. nally requested Temple to apply for the Brownlow. Brownlow was insistent that clearly defined sides, the lists of which appointment and but ten days earlier had all the "Locofocos," a Whig term for the were graciously provided us by the edito­ stated to him that there would be no op­ radical wing of the Democratic party, be rials of Brownlow and of the competing position to his appointment. Brownlow Whig newspaper, the Knoxville Register. states, in a Whig editorial, the reason that Supporting Brownlow were a number of Temple did not have the support of the prominent Whigs including Senator Register was because "he is poor, because John Bell, Oliver P. Temple, A. Alex­ he will not serve a selfish clique which ander Doak, Congressman Meredith has banded together for the purpose of Gentry, State Senator John F. Henry, promoting themselves, because he is James c. Luttrell, Judge Ebenezer identified with the odious firm of Bell, Alexander, General Solomon Jacobs and F. S. Heiskell. With the Register and op­ posing Brownlow were Congressmen John H. Crozier, John Cocke and John Netherland, as well as Col. Samuel P. Rogers, William Sneed, James W. Camp­ bell and George M. Swan. One name noticeably absent from these lists is Nelson. While Brownlow continually lists Nelson in his camp, Nelson's corre­ spondence as earlier cited denies this. From these lists one sees the East Tennessee Whigs were not only divided on the issue of federal patronage but were also divided along somewhat different lines concerning who should replace the William G. Brownlow, "1 will not condescend ousted Democrats. Two newly opened to defend my Whiggery at this late day. If 1have positions seemed to capture these two nor impressed the public mind with the belief that sides' attention: the Knoxville Postmas­ Oliver P. Temple, Prominent East Tennessee I am a Whig . .. it is too late to accomplish it ter, with Brownlow's faction favoring Lawyer and trustee of the University of now." (jones, j .S., Biographical Album of Luttrell and Crozier's favoring Campbell; Tennessee. (Pittenger, William, The Great Tennessee Governors, Knoxville: j.S. jones, and the loftier position of U.S. District Locomotive Chase, New York: jones and 1903, n.p.) Attorney of East Tennessee, with Stanley, 1893, p.266.)

16 tion was not just one of words and ideas, A HANDSOME Knonille negl~terl but also one of two factions vying for RESIDENCE, NOW ()1l"eUI"'ff'J..n:te'hlve~rf)ugh()U1t he jolev~ral power and prestige within a party hier­ coltn..""" tlt I<-;I""t 'r"nncl'li'it't', and the DEMOLISHED SChiUit..n tLnd ,Ve.te","U Stat,elj. archy. Such a contest between well­ ~r:F.R,rS : The Rt"fP~l;-is pubi'i:"hetl once a \\'('ck: balanced forces within a single body BY NICK WYMAN l>ol.L_\n~ (\\tednesday mQrning:) at Two per a unum inevitably led to a weakening of that SE lOR LIBRARY ASSISTANT it paid in advancE', lhat i.... al lhp \"Ollll1.'-'I1C(>IlWI1[ III tach subscrirtlOn le::H. Two lJOLLAn~ .\.1'D 1,'HoT\' body and contributed greatly to its ulti­ ()Y,lOTS, if paid within six tllunth:-. aUl'!" lile Ii nil' 01 ilub!'lcribill~J 01' TUR,";'.: DOLL.ill:) it pa)llh:l~1 Lc tic· mate undoing. One of the refreshing surprises of la)'t~\t be}'Onlt six month:s. This would not go unnoticed in this year was an additional gift from Mrs. tJ,::}- OSE DOLLAR, in atlvancc, for M" mnrl1h!i'. Washington. William Wales, Chairman Clarence Brown: the library of her late of the Whig Central Committee, in a husband, film director Clarence Brown. letter to Nelson held in the Nelson pa­ Mr. Brown has been, over the years, pers in the McClung Collection in among the most generous donors to the Knoxville dated July 12,1849, observes Library and the University. concerning the upcoming elections, "we The gift of his books and phono­ ~I)c Ucgistcr. have never seen indications more flatter­ graph records provides an additional di­

,\'EDl\:ESDAY l\:..ORNIXG.J.\N. 17. JH-IO. ing to Whig success, not only in the can­ mension to our understanding of this vass for Governor but for Congress & the engaging creative man. The range of sub­ Legislature. But there is an unprec­ ject matter, reflecting the varied interests edented absence of excitement and en­ of the Hollywood director, the inclusion Masthead of the Knoxville Register, Whig thusiasm, which is always dangerous, and of books that were the basis of films newspaper from 1816-1863. (Knoxville may greatly reduce the attendance at the Brown made, as well as the presence of Register, January 17, 1849.) polls and put everything to hazard." some stellar items make this gift an en­ More directly addressing the problem richment to the Library and to the Nelson, Henry, Brownlow & Co." As for was Hall, in a letter to Nelson ofSep­ scholar's "picture" of Mr. Brown and his Cocke's mysterious change of heart, tember 8, 1849, "That Knoxville feud! Is work. Most notable among the books is Brownlow charged that a bargain was it not fraught with mischief to Whig in­ a superb set of Edward S. Curtis' The struck between Cocke and Rogers, that terests, and is it not an evil without rem­ North American Indian . .., a peerless "Cocke will support Rogers if Rogers and edy?" Their concern was justified since, photographic study comprising twenty friends will keep control of their friends as A. Alexander Doak points out to volumes of text and twenty volumes of and clients in the counties of Anderson, Temple in a letter dated May 27, 1849, photogravures (prints made from intaglio Morgan and Sevier just before the next "Taylor received every Whig vote among plates created by way of photographic election." This time the Register could the Presbyterians in this district ... but methods). claim a win over the Whig. many Methodist Whigs did not vote for Recently Clarence Brown's one Although Brownlow's newspaper h1m.·" hundredth birthday passed, and much claimed to be the voice of the majority, The long -term result of these interest was paid on that occasion to the he appears not to have been the choice squabbles was actually predicted by distinguished late Tennessee alumnus of the Administration to represent them Brownlow in his November letter to and his works. All of this, along with in­ to the people. In more direct competi­ Hall. "The Whigs have had control of terest in the seven films Clarence Brown tion with the Register, Brownlow re­ this State for the last time for ten years to made with Greta Garbo, prompted a quested Hall, in his]une 19, 1849, letter, come; and as for the Presidency, no man study of the supplementary portion of the to use his influence in granting his paper of the Whig party can be elected for the Clarence Brown Collection-photo­ the advertising of the Post Office and the next quarter of a century." Indeed, Tay­ graphs and papers housed in the Special State Departments, previously held by lor would be the last Whig President, Collections Library. the Democratic Knoxville Standard. How­ Trousdale would win the gubernatorial In that group of materials is an al­ ever, in a letter from Brownlow dated election over Brown, to be followed by bum of photographs of a spacious, com­ November 8, 1849, it is obvious that the William B. Campbell, the last Whig gov­ fortable residence, apparently the home advertising was given to the Register in­ ernor. Etheridge would be the last Whig of an affluent family, as it appeared in the stead. Brownlow concludes that he "will Congressman and the party would hold 1920s. At the time the collection was not ask for any of it or have anything to its last National Convention in 1852 catalogued these photographs had not do with the administration." His frus­ when the final blow was dealt with the been identified clearly. In the box with tration and alienation are summed up death of Henry Clay. Thus, the fracture the album were wonderful photographs of as he says "With the Ruling Dynasty at among East Tennessee Whigs in 1849 Clarence Brown's parents, some taken Washington I wish no fellowship whatso­ would presage the complete destruction with the three together. Among the ever. And whenever they lay themselves of the national Whig party only some thirty-two black-and-white prints were open to attack, I will mount them most three years later. views of the "Hill" at the University, assuredly." taken from an angle showing the tower of This type of editorial competition Ayres Hall and the back of old Science was far from unique. Indeed, it was noth­ Hall. Only in Maplehurst Park, as the ing new to Hall who had killed George area is now known, could such a view be Poindexter, a rival editor of the Union obtained. and American, in a duel after a political Then came a tantalizing discovery: argument on Cherry Street in Nashville. in the corner of each photograph is the However, the Whig and Register competi- embossed mark, "Thompson. Photogra-

17 Driving in from Hill Avenue (Special Collections Library, MS-l 023.) pher. Knoxville." Why did Clarence City directories indicate that a album prepared as a commemorative of Brown have an album of Thompson pho­ son, Frank Seymour Mead, is residing at the acquisition of the estate? Whether a tographs of a handsome residence, now 832 West Hill in 1909; and as of 1912, gift or Larkin Brown's boomtime personal demolished, in the once fashionable Charles Milne Seymour, a well-known acquisition, this congenially arranged Maplehurst area? This question prompted Knoxville attorney and civil engineer, place must have been a great satisfaction an enthusiastic search in hot pursuit of was residing there, as well. Although to the Browns. the identity and history of the house in biographical information makes no such What the photographs reveal is a question. A quick check with a reliable connection, one cannot help wondering spacious house with generously propor­ and knowledgeable source yielded the if Frank was given his middle name be­ tioned rooms, furnished, on the whole, to information that by 1949 this house was cause of some friendship between the the taste of the 'teens and 'twenties. A the Terry Court apartments. Here was a Meads and young Seymour's engineer splendid entrance hall is notable for the clue that made possible a search of city father. In any case, Frank was a marble fashionable Jacobean revival chairs and directories and Sanborn fire insurance dealer, ultimately sitting at the head of sideboard, an imposing Chinese vase, and maps; thereby a very interesting history a marble company that his father had a beautifully carved staircase. A chinoi­ began to unfold. been involved with as well. The younger serie screen politely masks the kitchen The house, at 832 W. Hill Avenue, Mead and his wife were to move to 1600 door into the dining room; and in the was still outside the city limits of Knox­ Laurel Avenue after less than a decade corner of one room sits a wireless radio at ville in 1890, in what was then called presiding over the park-like domain in the ready. One airy, pleasant bedroom Williamsburg, although most of Wil­ Williamsburg. virtually proclaims itself as Clarence's. liamsburg to the east and the south was Enter Larkin H. Brown. When Views of the exterior reveal a new already within the city. The Sanborn Clarence was a young lad, his parents entrance of handsomely dressed stone, maps show the residence, then with a moved with their only son to Knoxville, surrounding double doors with long lights covered entrance porch, set in a small where Larkin Brown became a supervi­ and a graceful fanlight above. The win­ estate and standing at a considerable dis­ sor and then plant superintendent at dow above this entrance has been given tance from Hill Avenue, in a position Brookside Mills. Living for many years in an elegant stone frame, and the effect is commanding splendid views overlooking a modest frame dwelling at 121 E. Scott to lend the place the air of a Roman the Tennessee River. The city directory Avenue (in North Knoxville), the villa. On the river side is a renaissance for 1882 shows William S. Mead living at Browns may have known the Mead resi­ loggia overlooking the water, with a roof this address, and he remains there until dence on West Hill Avenue rather well. deck above it. This offers delightful his death in 1908. A prominent Knox­ In any event, Knoxville city directories views. ville industrialist, William Spies Mead reveal that in 1920 the Browns were resi­ Other photographs around the resi­ had moved to the city in 1873, purchas­ dent in the Whittle Springs Hotel. And dence reveal the expansively landscaped ing an interest in the Knoxville Iron in 1921 they are ensconced at 832 West grounds within which it is set. These, Company. As time went by, Mead be­ Hill, remaining there until 1926 or 192 7. together with the interior shots, all from came an officer or director ofseveral A fascinating coincidence is the fact that the camera of Knoxville's best known other major firms in Knoxville, including the first film to come out under Clarence historic photographer, make a special gift Brookside Mills. One of the first Trustees Brown's sole directorship was the 1920 to us from Clarence Brown. They capture of Lawson McGhee Library, he was film "The Great Redeemer." In addition, forever the last moments of repose in known as a cultivated man, knowledge­ "The Last of the Mohicans," directed what many affectionately remember as able in the arts, well travelled abroad, chiefly by Brown, but under the name of Maplehurst Park.• an active churchman, the owner of an his mentor Maurice Tourneur, opened in extensive personal library, and a wine 1920. Could the house have been the gift connoisseur. of a prospering son? Was the photograph

18 The living room wireless. (Special Collections Library, MS-l 023.)

The entrance ofdressed stone. (Special Collections Library, The fashionably appointed entrance hall. (Special Collections Library, MS-1023.) MS-1023).

19 NAMED ENDOWMENTS work in the field. affording them a broad perspective on PROVIDE LA5I1NG In 1937, Dr. Sherbakoff began a the University's needs. This University­ SUPPORT AND TRlBUft wheat breeding program for Tennessee, wide perspective has precipitated their and later was responsible for the release ongoing support of the Library. By LAURA C SIMIC of a rust-resistant wheat adapted to parts "The Library serves the whole cam­ DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT of the state. His cutting-edge work with pus - students, alumni, the whole com­ other plant diseases such as verticillium munity," asserts Paul. "UT has just been our life," says wilt of cotton, potato scab, and diseases Paul and Ann also credit Chancel­ Ann Sherbakoff when asked why she has caused by soil-borne organisms, contin­ lor Emeritus Jack Reese with inspiring stayed so involved with UT over the ued to gain international recognition and their dedication to the Library. "The first years. made innovative contributions resulting time we were in the new (Hodges) Li­ Ann and her husband Paul, both in greatly decreased crop losses. brary was at a Chancellor's Associates UT graduates, have strong long-standing It was after Dr. Sherbakoff's death reception, before the building was even ties to the University going back to 1920 in 1965, that Paul, Ann, and other dedi­ occupied," Ann remembers. "Jack said, when Paul's father, Dr. CD. Sherbakoff, cated friends made contributions to es­ 'Now we have a facility, and now we came to Knoxville to work at the UT tablish the Library endowment fund in have to fill it!' We have to stock the Agricultural Experiment Station. It was his memory. But the Sherbakoff family's store, so to speak. It was in Jack's honor in honor of Dr. Sherbakoff that the CD. involvement with UT did not end there. that we made our most recent commit­ Sherbakoff Library Endowment was es­ Two years after his graduation, Paul ment to the endowment." tablished in I965 for the purchase of began to work for UT as Registration The CD. Sherbakoff Library En­ plant science materials. Paul and Ann Supervisor, eventually becoming the Di­ dowment has continued to help "stock continue to support this fund, this year rector of the Student Center, and the the store" for 25 years. This endowment, making another significant commitment Executive Director of Student Services. as well as other individual named endow­ qualifying them for membership in the It was under Paul's guidance that the first ments like it, provides a perpetual source University's Presidents' Club. student center, the original Carolyn of income for Library resources. A named "My father was a researcher," says Brown University Center, was built. endowment may be established, with a Paul. "You can't do research without the Paul now serves on the board of minimum of $1 0,000, in honor of the tools, and those tools are in the Library." visitors for the College of Human Ecol­ donor, or friend, loved one, or other indi­ Adds Ann, "The fund is a natural way to ogy. Ann is a former member of the vidual. In addition to being valuable perpetuate 'Pop Sherby's' name. He Chancellor's Associates and serves on sources of support, such endowments also loved UT." the board of visitors for the College of provide fitting and ever-lasting remem­ The late Dr. CD. Sherbakoff im­ Education. Both are avid football fans, brances of the persons for whom they are migrated to the United States in 1907 holding season tickets "forever - almost named, for generations of scholars and from Russia, where he had obtained a 40 years!" Both credit their involvement researchers to come.• degree in forestry and worked as a profes­ with many aspects of the University with sional forester. By 19 I4 he had graduated from Cornell University with B.S.A. and Ph.D. degrees, and had begun work at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Sta­ tion. His work with citrus diseases led to the discovery of a new tomato disease, "Buckeye Rot." "He was very modest," according to Ann, "he never talked about what he did. When he came over to work on his Ph.D, he did not know English. He had an English/Russian dictionary on one side, with his textbooks on the other, translating every word." From 1920 to his retirement in 1950, Dr. Sherbakoff was head of the Plant Pathology Department at the UT Agricultural Experiment Station. He gained international recognition for his work in taxonomic studies on fungi of the genus Fusarium. In the early 1920s Dr. Sherbakoff was asked to make a de­ tailed study of the Fusaria in the patho­ logical collections of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agri­ culture, and was one of five international taxonomists invited to "The Fusarium Conference" held in Madison, Wisconsin in 1924, to chart the course for future Ann and Paul Sherbakoff. shoum here with Bill Dunavant (left), are regular attendants at Library events.

20 THE 'nNNESSEE privileges these newly-freed blacks CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES PRESIDENTS CEN'nR should enjoy was a question of consider­ K. POLK. Volume VII, January­ able controversy. Johnson encouraged August 1844. the Mississippi governor to support a lim­ BY WAYNE CUTLER, EDITOR THE PAPERS OF ANDREW ited suffrage for qualified black males; but JOHNSON. Volume 8, his overtures were ignored and Johnson Volume Seven of the correspon­ May-August 1865. did not pursue the i sue. dence covers eight critical months of BY PAUL H. BERGERO ,EDITOR Fleeting references to the above Polk's career, January through August of concerns should give some indication of 1844. Holding the Old Democracy's Published in December 1989, Vol­ the kinds of materials contained in Vol- North-South alliance together would ume 8 of The Papers of require of the party a new Andrew]ohman is the and bold strategy for first to deal exclusively achieving victory in the with Johnson's presi­ forthcoming presidential dency, albeit only four election. Martin Van months of his term. But Buren's friends could not the spring and summer easily detach themselves months of 1865 con­ from the only man who stituted for Johnson, had ever led the northern and indeed for the na­ wing of the party. Nor tion, North and South, were there any "safe" a critical time of bind­ states in their half of the ing up the wounds of Union, for the nomina­ war and establishing tion ofJohn C. Calhoun procedures for future or a northerner of south­ reconstruction. ern persuasions would This volume takes diminish prospects for Johnson through the winning state and local weeks in which he em­ elections. For their part, barked upon several southern Democrats fronts. First, he dealt would face equally cer­ with the pressing matter tain defeat should the of the Lincoln assassins, party run Van Buren a their arrest, trial, and third time. execution. He moved to Sectional divisions appoint provisional gov­ between the northern ernors in seven of the and southern branches of former Confederate the Old Democracy states and to outline the begged for a western can­ manner in which all of didate, but the party's the rebellious southern three most prominent states might seek "resto­ westerners could offer ration" to the Union little chance of reuniting (nullify the secession Jackson's fractured coali­ ordinances, abolish slav­ tions of 1828 and 1832. ery, and repudiate Con­ Missouri's Thomas H. federate debts). On the Benton and Kentucky's same day that he ap­ Richard M. Johnson pointed the first of the might gain northern ac­ Eighteen volumes ofhistorical documents have been l)ublished to date by the editorial projects on provisional governors, Tennessee's three presidents, Jackson, Polk, and Johnson. (Photo courtesy of the Office of ceptance because of their Johnson also issued his University Relations, University of Tennessee.) antislavery sympathies, extremely important but for the same reasons Amnesty Proclamation neither could carry the by which he offered general pardon to all ume 8. Through the letters, telegrams, cotton South. Michigan's Lewis Cass ex-Rebels, unless they came within one speeches, and interviews published might win the support of southern cotton or more of the fourteen categories of ex­ therein a reader is enabled to grasp a producers because of his low-tariff views, emption. Persons finding themselves in fuller and deeper knowledge and appre­ but the same would defeat him in the pro­ the latter situation must seek an indi­ ciation of the Reconstruction era, par­ tectionist states of the North. In 1844 the vidual pardon from the President and ticularly as it is viewed from the vantage discordant Democracy divided against all thousands did in the summer of 1865. point of the White House. of its prominent leaders; and had it not With regard to the all-important been for the dreaded fear of a Henry Clay matter ofsouthern blacks, Johnson make presidency, the contentious factions might clear his position in favor of the emanci­ never have compromised on an "avail­ pation of all slaves. But what rights and able," that is, an electable candidate.• LIBRARY EVENTS

focus attention on the Libraries and CAMPAIGN share the University's wealth of scholarly NEARS GOAL resources with the greater community. One year since its public an­ All individuals who make an an­ nouncement, The Tennessee Imperative nual gift to the Libraries of $50 or more campaign was over two-thirds of the way qualify for membership in the Library to its $6 million goal. Friends. Members receive borrowing Many generous gifts from valued privileges at the UT Knoxville Libraries UT alumni and friends pushed the cam­ as well as the Library Friends newsletter paign past the $4 million mark in early and invitations to special events spon­ spring. By the end of 1990, the cam­ sored by the organization. For more infor­ paign will have reached all UT Knox­ mation about this worthwhile group, ville alumni and past donors, through a contact the Director of Development, carefully planned series of segmented University Libraries, at (615) 974-0037. mailings with personal and telephone follow-up. GAMES BENEFn "The Tennessee Imperative pro­ vides a tremendous opportunity to tell all ENDOWMENT of our alumni about the Libraries," said Dean Paula Kaufman with Honorary Life In generous support of the Librar­ the Libraries' Director of Development Members Dr. Charles Maland and Chancellor ies' ongoing fund-raising efforts, the UT Laura Simic. "The Libraries are some­ Emeritus Jack E. Reese. Knoxville Men's Athletics Department what of a hidden treasure. We need to donated a portion of the proceeds of two spread the word that the Libraries are the 1990 football games to the Men's Athlet­ heart of the University." UBRARY FRIENDS ics Department Library Endowment. The regional business and philan­ The year-old Library Friends orga­ The proceeds of the Orange and White thropic community has also been tapped nization was off to an active start, spon­ Game, a spring intrasquad scrimmage, on behalf of the campaign. Several soring the first in an ongoing series of were given to the Library as well as a corporations and foundations have rec­ Library Friends lectures last spring. Dr. share of the profits from the invitational ognized the Libraries' impact on the cul­ Charles Maland, Associate Professor of Disneyland Pigskin Classic in August. tural, social and economic environment English, presented "Charlie Chaplin: This partnership effort between athletics of Tennessee, and have responded favor­ Travails of a Movie 'Genius' " to a group and academics boosted the Endowment ably with their support.• of enthusiastic Knoxville area Friends. by over $235,000. Dr. Maland, a member of the UT Knoxville faculty since 1978, was a 1989 Pulitzer Prize nominee for his book Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolu­ tion ofa Star Image. In gratitude for his contribution as the first Library Friends lecturer, Dean Paula Kaufman honored Dr. Maland as an Honorary Life Member of the Library Friends. Also honored as an Honorary Life Member was Chancel­ lor Emeritus Jack E. Reese, for his long­ standing support and advocacy on behalf of the University Libraries, and his in­ strumental role in the building of the John C. Hodges Library. The Library Friends brings together those who share an enthusiasm for books, and an appreciation for the printed word and freedom of access to information. The organization seeks to stimulate private support of the Libraries and to encourage greater consciousness of the importance of the Libraries throughout Head Football Coach Johnny Majors presents Dean Paula Kaufman with the proceeds from the Orange the region. The Library Friends lectures & White Game as Chancellor John Quinn looks on.

22 INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

nlE ur KNOXVIW DEFERRED GIFTS UBRARIES Such gifts include gifts by will, More than any other single ele­ charitable remainder trust or charitable ment, the library is the heart of a univer­ lead trust. Often these gifts can provide sity. The quality of the UT Knoxville income to the donor as well as tax ben­ Libraries' collections directly affects the efits, with the Libraries receiving the quality of intellectual inquiry campus­ trust income at a later date. wide - and the quality of education we give our students, the leaders of our GIFTS OF LIBRARY MATERIALS future. Books, manuscripts, historical You can help to guarantee that our documents and other such items can be future leaders receive the best possible of great importance and may become a education by making an investment in valuable part of the Libraries' collection. Michael Lofaro, professor of English 'and Jim the UT Knoxville Libraries. Our collection development librarians Lloyd, Special Collections, in Special Collections. There are many opportunities by can discuss with you whether your items which you can make a difference: may meet some of the collection's needs.

GIFTS OF CASH AND Gifts may be directed to the John APPRECIATED SECURITIES C. Hodges Library, the George C. Taylor An outright gift of cash or securi­ Law Library, the George F. DeVine Mu­ ties enables the Library to apply the sic Library, the Map Library, the Webster funds to the area of greatest need almost Pendergrass Agriculture-Veterinary immediately. Gifts of appreciated securi­ Medicine Library, or the Special Collec­ ties also offer attractive tax benefits to tions Library. the donor.

Associate Dean Aubrey Mitchell and Lib Hotch­ kiss, Knox County Schools, in the]ohn C. Hodges Library.

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As Americans have given to various charitable efforts over the years, they have created many national treasures available to all. Many of these resources would never have been possible with governmental support alone. Virtually all of the truly great libraries have been made great through gifts from individuals. 'We are most grateful to the following who have generously supported the UT Knoxville Libraries.

UBRARY ENDOWMENI'S Paul E. Howard Humanities Collection Library Endowment tHOSE HONORED The first endowment at the UT Knoxville Human Ecology Library Development The following individuals have been hon­ Libraries, the John L. Rhea Foundation En­ Endowment ored by gifts made to the University Libraries dowment, was created in 1904. Since then Thomas L. James Library Endowment in their name between July 1, 1989 and June the number of Library endowments has grown William H. Jesse-Library Staff Endowment 30,1990: tremendously. Mamie e. Johnston Library Endowment Endowment funds are particularly valuable Angelyn Donaldson & Richard Adolf Koella Howard Baker, Sr. because, once established, they provide inter­ Historical Documents Library Endowment Betsey Beeler Creekmore est income for the Library in perpetuity. Such Library Acquisitions Endowment John Dobson funds also offer a fitting opportunity to honor Wayne & Alberta Longmire Library Joe Johnson or memorialize a friend or relative. Anyone Endowment Paula T. Kaufman may establish a named endowment fund with Edwin R. Lutz Memorial Library Endowment Sammie Lynn Puett a minimum gift of$10,000 to the University Lois Maxwell Mahan Library Endowment* Larry Ratner Libraries. Stuart Maher Memorial Endowment- Jack E. Reese For more information about establishing Technical Library Nancy Reese an endowment fund, contact the Library De­ Department of Mathematics Library velopment Office at 974-0037. Endowment tHOSE MEMORIAUZED Edward J. McMillan Library Endowment (Endowments marked with an asterisk have Men's Athletics Department Library The following individuals have had gifts been established since our last issue of the Endowment made to the University Libraries in their Library Development Review.) Harve'f & Helen Meyer Library Endowment* memory between July I, 1989 and June 30, Flora Belle & Bessie Abigail Moss Library 1990: Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine Library Endowment Endowment W.F. (Red & Golda) Moss Agriculture O. Wendell Anderton Barbara Mynatt Anonymous Library Endowment Library Endowment Joanne Breazeale Christine Nordling Lalla Block Arnstein Library Endowment Angie Warren Perkins Library Endowment Lora E. Brummitt Maude Odom James M. Blake Library Endowment* Jack E. Reese Library Endowment John Bushore James Panas Margaret Gray Blanton Library Endowment John L. Rhea Foundation Library Endowment Ted W. Cook Jarrell Penn James Douglas Bruce Library Endowment Lawrence e. Roach Library Endowment Clayton Dekle William G. Pollard Renda Burkhart Library Endowment* Norman B. Sayne Library Endowment- Katherine S. Diehl Judson Robertson William Waller Garson Library Endowment Humanities Willie C. Duck Opal Russell Ira N. Chiles Library Endowment-Higher B. Schiff Family & Betty J. Weathers Library Betty Dunlop William Harold Shaw Education Endowment* Lucy E. Fay Robert H. Shreve Caroline Perry Cleveland Library Louise & Aileen Seilaz Memorial Library Harold S. Fink Robert W. Smartt Endowment* Endowment* Marjorie Cox Hier Glenna B. Smith Betsey Beeler Creekmore Library Dr. e.D. Sherbakoff Library Endowment Robert Hiller Neil e. Spencer Endowment* J. Allen Smith Library Endowment John e. Hodges Mary Katherine Stone Kenneth Curry Library Endowment McGregor Smith Library Endowment Mr. Horodysky Durant DaPonte Memorial Library Social Work Alumni Library Endowment William H. Jesse Endowment Dr. & Mrs. Walter Stiefel Library Endowment Bill Johnson, Jr. Richard Beale Davis Humanities Library Florence B. & Ray B. Striegel Library Lola W. Johnson Endowment Endowment Robert W. Johnson Clayton B. Dekle Library Endowment Charles A. Trentham Library Endowment Morris Jones Frank M. Dryzer Library Endowment United Foods Humanities Library Josephine Ijams Kern Roland E. Duncan Library Endowment* Endowment Hyram Kitchen Ellis & Ernest Library Endowment UTK Tomorrow Humanities Library Richard G. Klausmeyer Harold S. Fink Library Endowment-History Endowment Opal Leatherwood Dr. Stanley J. Folmsbee Library Endowment Valley Fidelity Bank Library Endowment William A. Lowry Armour T. Granger Library Endowment Bill Wallace Memorial Library Endowment Robert T. Mann Henry A. Haenseler Library Endowment Walters Library Endowment* Louise W. McCleary Hamilton National Bank Library Endowment Frank B. Ward Library Endowment Carrie Montgomery Natalie Leach & James A. Haslam II Library White Stores Library Endowment Dr. & Mrs. H.A. Morgan Endowment* Ronald H. Wolf Library Endowment George & Sallie Hicks Agriculture-Veteri­ Lindsay Young Library Endowment nary Medicine Library Endowment* Guy e. Youngerman Library Endowment Hodges Books for English Library Endowment J.e. Hodges-UTK Alumni Library Endowment

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The artists' preliminary sketch of "Farragut on the Hartford at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864." Note the dead man on the railing who does not appear in the finished version.

Back Cover: "Farragut on the Hartford at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864." Photo by Stan McCleave ofa print in the Farragut Collection.

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