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• Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel No. 3 [magazine and translation]
  "Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel" was a literary magazine written, illustrated, printed, and distributed by German and German-American prisoners interned at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, during and after World War I. Magazine content includes original and familiar poems, letters, stories, commentary, humor, announcements and reviews of camp events and performances, and colored woodcut illustrations depicting camp life and portraits of prisoners. Portrait subjects include Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck, geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, writer Hanns Heinz Ewers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conductor Ernst Kunwald, and physicist Jonathan Zenneck. Early issues reference the impact of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (the "Spanish Flu") on the camp. English translations were created by Helen Groh and Daniela Gunthe. Groh and Gunth prioritized translating articles that described camp life. Some of the stories were not translated due to the difficulty of the older German language.
• Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel No. 2 [magazine and translation]
  "Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel" was a literary magazine written, illustrated, printed, and distributed by German and German-American prisoners interned at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, during and after World War I. Magazine content includes original and familiar poems, letters, stories, commentary, humor, announcements and reviews of camp events and performances, and colored woodcut illustrations depicting camp life and portraits of prisoners. Portrait subjects include Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck, geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, writer Hanns Heinz Ewers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conductor Ernst Kunwald, and physicist Jonathan Zenneck. Early issues reference the impact of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (the "Spanish Flu") on the camp. English translations were created by Helen Groh and Daniela Gunthe. Groh and Gunth prioritized translating articles that described camp life. Some of the stories were not translated due to the difficulty of the older German language.
• Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel No. 1 [magazine and translation]
  "Orgelsdorfer Eulenspiegel" was a literary magazine written, illustrated, printed, and distributed by German and German-American prisoners interned at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, during and after World War I. Magazine content includes original and familiar poems, letters, stories, commentary, humor, announcements and reviews of camp events and performances, and colored woodcut illustrations depicting camp life and portraits of prisoners. Portrait subjects include Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Karl Muck, geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, writer Hanns Heinz Ewers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conductor Ernst Kunwald, and physicist Jonathan Zenneck. Early issues reference the impact of the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 (the "Spanish Flu") on the camp. English translations were created by Helen Groh and Daniela Gunthe. Groh and Gunth prioritized translating articles that described camp life. Some of the stories were not translated due to the difficulty of the older German language.
• "Biography and achievements of the colored citizens of Chattanooga"
• Shutting's street map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1938
  Street map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, detailing the transportation infrastructure of the city, shortly after the completion of the Chickamauga Dam. The map names roads, schools, churches, neighborhoods, cemeteries, factories, and streetcar and bus lines. Insets: Downtown Chattanooga -- Map of Chickamauga Park. Includes indexes to streets, suburbs, communities, and points of interest below map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows northwest corner of Georgia including Fairyland and Rossville. Rudolph Julius Shutting was born in Chattanooga on August 16, 1878, the child of Latvian immigrants. He served in the Spanish-American War and registered for World War I and later in the United States Engineers' office. In the 1920's he began creating maps of Chattanooga, including street maps and bird's-eye views of the city. He died in 1951.
• Plat map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1904
  Plat maps with index. Maps show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, names of property owners, churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams.
• Plat map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1928
  Plat maps with index; includes portions of Hamilton County, Tennessee; and Catoosa County, Dade County, and Walker County, Georgia. Maps show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, names of property owners, churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams.
• Plat map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1914
  Plat maps with index. Maps show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, names of property owners, churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams.
• Plat map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1889
  Plat maps with index. Maps show lot and block numbers, dimensions, street widths, names of property owners, churches, cemeteries, mills, schools, roads, railroads, lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams.
• Sanborn map of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1901
  Fire insurance maps depict buildings, coded by color to represent their material composition, and labeled according to their use. A street index and key are provided.
• Belvoir Place residential development map, 1926
  Map of the Belvoir Place development of Chattanooga, Tenneessee. Map indicates "planned and supervised by C. T. Chamberlain."
• Panoramic view of Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Hill City, Tennessee Directory, 1904
• Cavalier Corporation scrapbook
  Scrapbook containing advertisements for Cavalier Corporation primarily for furniture and cedar chests. The company was started in 1905 as Odorless Refrigerator Company. Name changed to Tennessee Furniture Company in 1919, and then to Cavalier Corporation in 1938. Maker of vending machines, appliances and furniture, located at E.9th Street (later Martin Luther King Boulevard) and Central Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1905-2000.
• Helen Watkins (Mrs. Richard)
  Photograph of Helen Whiteside Watkins, born August 17, 1849 and died January 13, 1928. Her father was James Whiteside, part of St. Elmo development, and her husband was Richard Watkins.
• Lorenzo "Lon" Alexander Warner
  Photograph of Lorenzo "Lon" Warner, managing editor of the journal The Tradesman, published in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His wife, Lillian, was a social editor with the Chattanooga News.
• General Francis Marion Walker
  Photo of Francis Marion Walker, born in Kentucky on November 12, 1827 and died on July 22, 1864 during the Battle of Atlanta. He moved to Chattanooga in 1854 and practiced law and served on the alderman board from 1858-1859. Walker was attorney general for the Tennessee 4th District until the start of the Civil War. General Walker led the 19th Tennessee Regiment of the Confederacy.
• Frederick J. Virgin
  Photograph of Frederick Virgin, born about 1844 in England and died June 15, 1926. He immigrated to the U. S. in 1873.He worked as auditor for Railway Express Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• William "Will" Cooper Sheperd
  Photograph of William Shepherd, born October 11, 1881, and died in Chattanooga on July 29, 1947.His father was Judge Lewis Shepherd. From 1909 to 1918 he worked on the editorial staff of the Chattanooga Times. In 1919, he bought the Hamilton County Herald and wrote and published for that newspaper until his death. He was an officer with the Half-Century club, charter member of the Civitan club, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
• John Schiller
  Photograph of John Schiller, born in Germany in 1861. He is pictured in the uniform of a fire or police officer. He died in Knoxville on May 27, 1897.
• Selden Samuel
  Photograph is of a painting of Selden Samuel, who was born in June 1862, He was the manager of Brooks Oil Company in Chattanooga. He died September 4, 1907,
• Ralph Runyan
  Photograph of newspaper editor Ralph Runyan, who was born in Ohio around 1870. He died on February 29, 1928.
• John Ross
  Photograph of lithograph of young John Ross, titled John Ross, Cherokee Chief, originally found in History of The Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, assembled by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall between 1836 and 1844. John Ross (1790-1866), was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828-1866. He established a trading post known as Ross's Landing which later became Chattanooga. His home in Rossville, Georgia is still standing. John Ross left on the Trail of Tears in 1838.
• John Ross
  Sketch of older John Ross, created by Walter Edward Blythe, from a colored lithograph in History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, assembled by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall between 1836 and 1844.John Ross was Principal Chief of the Cherokees from 1828-1866 and led one of the groups from Chattanooga to Indian Territory in the Trail of Tears in 1838.
• Edward Gould Richmond
  Photograph of Edward Gould Richmond, born in Attica, New York on October 29, 1851, and died in Chattanooga, November 29, 1903. He invested capital in Chattanooga, creating Richmond Hosiery Mills, Richmond Spinning Mills, and the Richmond Cotton Oil company and many others. He was a trustee of the Chattanooga Library, leader in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, a Mason, and a member of the Mountain City Club.