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Myron H. Avery
No full textThis photograph, by Dutch Roth, is of Myron Avery on the Appalachian Trail at Yellow Creek Gap. Albert Gordon "Dutch" Roth (1890-1974) was an avid photographer who led the first official hike sponsored by the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club in 1924. Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952) was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and chairman of the board of the Appalachian Trail Conference. The photograph is stamped “Jim Thompson Co. Knoxville Master Photo Finishers,” on the back indicating it was probably printed by fellow hiking club member James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976)
Myron Avery, Guy Frizzell and Dutch Roth
No full textThis photograph includes three hikers looking into the Nantahala Gorge. Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952) was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and chairman of the board of the Appalachian Trail Conference. Albert Gordon "Dutch" Roth (1890-1974) was an avid photographer who led the first official hike sponsored by the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club in 1924. Guy Frizzell served as the President of the Smokies Club.The photograph was made by Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), founding member of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, formed in 1923. It is stamped “Jim Thompson Co. Knoxville Master Photo Finishers,” on the back indicating it was probably printed by fellow hiking club member James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976)
In Celebration of the Life of Dwight Avery Thompson
No full textFuneral program for Dwight Avery Thompson, born September 26, 1963. The funeral was held June 19, 1993 at the Lewis Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Bishop Washington. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home, and he was buried in Southern Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas
Lines written on the death of Sarah M. Cornell.
No full text1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations ; 43 x 20 cm. On December 21, 1832, the body of Sarah M. Cornell was found hanging on a farm in Tiverton, Rhode Island. A Methodist minister, Ephraim K. Avery, was charged with her murder, leading to one of the most sensational trials of the 19th century. His acquital provoked popular outrage, as reflected in this broadside. http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b120289
Avery, Clarence G. - Accounting Professor
No full textAccounting professor Dr. Clarence Avery, wearing a suit. He was co-author of Accounting Principles with donald F. Istvan. http://lccn.loc.gov/78050092https://stars.library.ucf.edu/univphotocollection/1231/thumbnail.jp
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Life, land, and labor on Avery Island in the 1920s and 1930s
No full texttextAvery Island, Louisiana and McIlhenny Company provide a lens through which to understand how performances of masculinity and paternalism operated in the New South and were deployed for U. S. empire-building projects. Focusing on the tenure of Edward Avery McIlhenny as President of McIlhenny Company, this paper utilizes primary documents from the McIlhenny Company & Avery Island, Inc. Archives to construct a narrative based on correspondence between E. A. and his Wall Street investment banker, Ernest B. Tracy, revealing how E.A. confronted disaster capitalism and influenced the production of cultural tourism amidst environmental and economic crises in the 1920s and 1930s.American Studie
Rebecca Avery letter, Memphis, 1846
No full textLetter from Rebecca Avery and other members of her family at Memphis, Tennessee, to her daughter Amanda A. Avery, c/o Mrs. Holcolm, La Grange, Tennessee, written on November 13, 1846. The other family members include Amanda\u27s sister Cornelia Estelle, an unidentifiable author and cousin Bob. Rebecca Avery notes how tired she is with her six student lodgers and two day boarders. “I hope you will catch a smart beau, for I want you all married.” Estelle (Stella) complains of a cough and wonders if it is consumption. Says she is tired looking after the boarders also. The unidentifiable writer notes that “poverty is a most niggardly rascally tormenting pestiferous scamp of a thing – that sticks tighter and bites harder than a thousand musketoes in a Mississippi swamp could possibly do.” Amanda Avery (1828-1916) was the daughter of Nathan Avery (1792-1846), a physician born in Lebanon, New York, who practiced in Bolivar and Memphis, and Rebecca Jones Rivers (1793-1847), whom he married in Montgomery County, Tennessee, in 1818. Their children included: William Thomas (1819-1880), Elizabeth Edmunds (1824-1916, who married Minor Meriwether), and Cornelia Estelle (1830-1919). Amanda married Nathaniel Macon Trezevant (1829-1912), a lawyer, in 1848.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-shelbycountytn2/1045/thumbnail.jp
Oswald Avery With Members of His Laboratory, ca. 1930
No full textOswald Avery with members of his laboratory, ca. 1930
Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center
Oswald Avery (front, center) with members of his laboratory in the early of 1930s. René Dubos (back, second from right), was a leading microbiologist who became a noted author and environmentalist.https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/group-portraits/1028/thumbnail.jp
She's only a tiny Eskimo doll
No full textDescription of a doll given the author by her granddaughter and memories of times the grandmother, granddaughter, and doll spent together. Both the doll and the grandchild are named.Authorship attributed to informant, Mrs. Mabel Avery. Text located MS p. 21 (Appendix, #3). Author's note "Kimmie - an Eskimo doll given to my [sic] by my grand-daughter"
Efficiency tests of a twenty horse-power Avery Traction Engine no. 2116
No full textCitation: Carnahan, August Belmont, Barnard, Asa William, and Thompson, Roger S. Efficiency tests of a twenty horse-power Avery Traction Engine no. 2116. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1905.Morse Department of Special CollectionsIntroduction: Purpose: The purpose of the following is to set forth the mechanical efficiency of the Avery traction engine No. 2116, running as a stationary engine and as a traction engine; to determine the evaporative power of the boiler under a reasonable load While being fired with Lansing coal from the Kansas Penitentiary; and to determine the draft per ton of haul over dirt and macadamized roads with an ordinary four inch wagon. The instruments used for the tests for mechanical efficiency were: Two Crosby indicators, each closely connected A Crosby disk revolution counter/ A Prony brake/ A platform scale and/ An indicator reducing motion/ To make a reliable test of an engine requires a correct application of instruments and a skillful manipulation of the same. The error of every instrument should be determined before and after the test and necessary corrections made for the same. No instrument of doubtful reading should be used under any circumstances. Ease of manipulation adds much to the accuracy with *high a reading may be made. All readings ought to be made simultaneously in order that they may harmonize. The Indicators: Of the sources of error accompanying the use of indicators we found that two above all should be sought out
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