Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources
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Digital Collections

Call Family and Brevard Family Papers [online]. Tallahassee: Florida State Archives, n.d. [cited 26 May 2002]. Available from: http://www.dos.state.fl.us/dlis/barm/CallBrevardPapers/default.htm.
Includes letters from Andrew Jackson to Richard K. Call (1790-1862).

SOHP Archives [online]. Chapel Hill, NC: Southern Oral History Program, n.d. [cited 24 June 2002]. Available from: http://www.sohp.org/archives/index.html.
Includes an audio file of an interview with Albert Gore, Sr.

Tennessee Documentary History, 1796-1850 [online]. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Libraries, forthcoming [cited 24 January 2003]. Available from: http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/tennhist/.

Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001.
Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/iauhtml/tccchome.html.
Includes digital images of publicity brochures for over 4500 performers and speakers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. Tennessee speakers included Luke Lea, Estes Kefauver, Malcolm Patterson, and Robert L. Taylor.

Visual Information Access (VIA) [online]. [Cambridge, Mass.]: Harvard University Library, 1999- . Available from: http://via.harvard.edu:748/html/VIA.html.
VIA is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard's museums and libraries. Includes materials from the Martha Ragsdale Ragland Papers, including photographs (thumbnails only) of Ragsdale and Estes Kefauver.


Guides to Archival Collections



Microfilm Collections

James K. Polk Papers. Washington: Library of Congress, 1964. 67 microfilm reels.

State Constitutional Conventions from Independence to the Completion of the Present Union, 1776-1959. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. Microfiche.





Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources