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Scope and content: Nomination packet compiled by Henry L. Bledsoe, Jr. in an effort to nominate Coach Bob Cummings to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. (As of 2010, Cummings has not been inducted.) Materials primarily concern Cummings' career as a high school football coach at Isaac Litton High School in Nashville, Tenn. from 1947 to 1953 and consist mostly of photocopies of both newsclippings and school yearbooks. Detailed win-loss records have...
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Scope and content: Radio scripts for the "Ham and Eg" (sometimes spelled Egg) show; the "Ape and Ex" show (sponsored by Apex Oil Co.) and one script entitled "The Malones Never Quit." The first two programs are comedies with characters intended to be African-American, who speak in a caricature of black dialect. The third program is a drama about a district attorney who fights gangsters, his father who is a railroad engineer, and the son's love interest....
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Scope and content: Spanning the years 1912 to 1975, this collection contains yearbooks, minutes, obituaries, clippings, photographs, papers, correspondence, and miscellanea from the Nashville, Tenn., women's music club, Vendredi Musicale. The collection also includes five items from two other clubs, the Women's Musicale and the Musical Alumnae Club. Lela Hamilton (1916-1999), former club officer and member of the clubs, collected the materials.
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