Other Archival Collections

Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

This collection of records includes administrative papers from several divisions of the 1933 federally established corporation, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), such as correspondence, general reports, financial statements, work stoppages and strikes records, cartographic records, photographs, and audiovisual recordings of daily operations and special projects. These span from 1917-1994 with the bulk created between 1933-1986. Records …

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Leslie Falk Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

Description from the collection’s finding aid, “The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and subject files which document Leslie A. Falk’s career as area medical administrator for the United Mine Workers Health and Welfare Fund, teacher at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Meharry Medical College, and medical activist. The papers highlight …

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Coal Employment Project (CEP) Records, Archives of Appalachia Repository, East Tennessee State University

The CEP records document not only the daily operations of the organization but also the extensive activities the organization undertook in its support of women miners. Among the types of documents contained in the collection are financial ledgers and balance sheets; grant proposals; personnel leave and hiring records; correspondence between CEP staff members in their …

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John Gaventa Papers, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

The John Gaventa Papers include materials generated and collected during Gaventa’s career as a political sociologist, educator, author, and civil society practitioner. This includes correspondence, day planners and calendars, journals, materials from conferences, and papers, reports and studies written by Gaventa. The collection also includes resesearch notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, interview transcripts, and maps concerning …

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Marie Cirillo Papers, University of Notre Dame Archives

Correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, reports, proposals, budgets, constitutions, by-laws, talks, presentations, circulars and clippings; representing activities of the Glenmary Home Mission Sisters 1954-1967, the Federation of Communities in Service (FOCIS) 1967-1977, the Department of Rural Developments (DRD) of the Nashville Diocese, Model Valley, Core Appalachian Ministries (CAM), and the Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA); …

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Video: The St. Charles Health Clinic

“The St. Charles Health Clinic” (19 mins, 53 secs) From the Appalshop Archive collection on the Internet Archive, watch interviews with St. Charles community members and members of the Vanderbilt University Student Health Coalition about the need for local health care services and the successful efforts of both groups to make that happen. Citizens discuss …

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