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Digital Teaching Collections (Special Collections)

This research guide highlights primary sources and research materials in Special Collections for English 102 students.

Digital Collections Instructional Disclaimer

The following selected materials are multiple full digital collections in the University of Tennessee Special Collections repository and are intended to serve as jumping off points for further, more in depth research. For information on searching within these collections, please see the section on Navigating Digital Teaching Collections. 

Knoxville/East Tennessee Full Digital Collections

Images of East Tennessee 

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Knoxville, 1890 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Sheet Index. From the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Digital Collection. 

Featuring postcards and photographs from the mid-nineteenth century through the late-twentieth century, this collection is particularly rich in images of Knoxville, including pictures of airports, homes, businesses, schools, churches, hospitals, vistas, people, and the 1982 World’s Fair. 
Knoxville Garden Slides

This collection of hand-colored lantern slides dates from the late 1920s and early 1930s. The slides depict ornamental gardens in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area and feature a variety of garden styles, plants, flowers, and foliage. They illustrate the rich tradition of gardening and beautification in Knoxville.

Sanborn Maps

The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are a large-scale representation of the growth and layout of American cities. The University of Tennessee Libraries' collection currently provides digital versions of the four earliest sets of Knoxville maps - 1884, 1890, 1903, and 1917.

Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project

The Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project (TNDP) is a partnership between the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The project provides access to a selection of Tennessee's historical newspapers. Link to the Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project sources is here.

Charlie Daniel Editorial Cartoon Collection 

This digital collection provides online access to a select portion of original cartoons drawn by Charlie Daniel during his career as the editorial cartoonist at the Knoxville Journal (from 1958) and the Knoxville News-Sentinel (from 1992).