Clifford A. Maxwell Photographs, 1940-1986

Title

Description

The Clifford A. Maxwell Photographs, held by the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University, document businesses, events, people, and places in Johnson City, Jonesborough, greater Washington County, and the larger tri-cities region. The negatives and prints in the collection date from the 1940s and continue through the 1980s. However, many of the negatives are surrogates of items from the photographic collections of Burr Harrison and Mildred Kozsuch, among others, and portray subject matter dating as far back as the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Subjects represented in the collection include: street scenes; area farms and rural landscapes; the Tipton-Haynes historical site; Maxwell family members and ancestors, theaters including the Johnson City Community Theatre; Little Theater, and Majestic Theater; hotels including the Franklin, Pardue, and Windsor; schools including Columbus Powell, Dunbar, Langston, Milligan, and Science Hill; local businesses including Empire Furniture, Sterchi's, and the Tri-Cities Airport; railroads including the CC&O, ET&WNC ("Tweetsie"), and Southern; and local families including Carter, Embree, Faw, Gump, Hankal, Jackson, Matson, Preas, Sevier, and Wilder.

The current digital collection includes positive copies of JPEG surrogates derived from the original photographic negatives in 2022 and 2023.

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Creator

Maxwell, Clifford A. (Clifford Arthur), 1906-1986 (Person)

Source

Clifford A. Maxwell Photographs, Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University

Date

1940-1986

Rights

The Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University provides access to the materials on this website for the purposes of research and education, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. [identification of item], [identification of collection], Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University). Any commercial uses of the materials or any uses that exceed the limits of fair use and other relevant statutory exceptions require the permission of the Archives of Appalachia and the copyright holder(s). It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials.

Compressed (low resolution) files are available on this website. Requests for accessing uncompressed (high resolution) versions of this material can be sent to the Archives of Appalachia.

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