ANNE W. ARMSTRONG COLLECTION
1947-1958

East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, TN 37614-0138

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INTRODUCTION

Title: Anne W. Armstrong Collection
Collection Number: Accession No. 97; Library of Congress No. MS 82-547
Physical Description: 0.25 linear feet
Creator: Anne W. Armstrong
Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Anne W. Armstrong Collection was placed in the Archives of Appalachia by Dr. Marshall D. Hogan, a friend of Mrs. Armstrong's grandson, on March 15, 1981.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: Michael G. Shandor completed processing and the collection was opened for research in June of 1981.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Anne Wetzell Armstrong was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 20, 1872. When she was very young, her parents, Henry B. Wetzell and Lorinda Snyder Wetzell, moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. She lived there until she attended college at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts from 1889-1891. She married Robert F. Armstrong in 1905. Mrs. Armstrong worked for National City Company in New York City from 1918-1919 and Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York from 1919-1923. She was the first woman to speak before the Dartmouth and Harvard business schools. Among her published works are The Seas of God, which she wrote in 1915, and This Day and Time, in 1930. She died March 17, 1958 in Abingdon, Virginia.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Anne W. Armstrong Collection contains a copy of a typescript of an unpublished manuscript entitled "Of Time and Knoxville, Fragment of an Autobiography." The manuscipt recounts Armstrong's view of growing up in Knoxville in 1880s and 1890s.

 

Important subjects covered in the collection are:

Armstrong, Anne Wetzell, 1872-1958
Knoxville (Tenn.)--Intellectual life
Knoxville (Tenn.)--Race relations
Knoxville (Tenn.)--Social conditions
Knoxville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs
Transportation--Tennessee--Knoxville

 

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I, "OF TIME AND KNOXVILLE, FRAGMENT OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY," 1885-1902. Box 1

This collection contains one series only consisting of the above titled unpublished manuscript by Anne W. Armstrong written sometime between 1947 and 1958. The dates of the account are 1885-1902.

BOX AND FOLDER LIST

Box 1

1. Title page, forward, acknowledgements and table of contents.
2. Pages 1-100.
3. Pages 101-200.
4. Pages 201-300.
5. Pages 301-368.
6. Rewrite of Chapter 5.