Scope and content: Scrapbook #1: Inscribed: "from Mattie to Ma, Dec. 25, 1882," contents in this scrapbook date from 1881 to 1902. Most of the materials in this scrapbook consist of calling cards. About half are formally printed cards, purchased from local printers; about half are handwritten, which are probably the signatures of the individuals named. Interspersed throughout are frequent wedding invitations, many to ceremonies held outside of Tennessee....

Scope and content: Heavily illustrated scrapbook, with frequent annotations, compiled by Mary Weber Farrar. The bulk of the scrapbook dates from 1892 to 1899. A few individual items date from 1905, ca. 1920, and ca. 1942; their source is not known. Pages are numbered with one page number referencing a two-page spread. In ink, inside the front cover, an inscription reads, "Musical Notes, Mrs. F.E. Farrar, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 27, 1895. Further on...