Scope and content: Scrapbook containing clippings (many with illustrations) and a small quantity of other items documenting a wide variety of topics, with many materials dated from 1936. A typed index has been added in the front, presumably by the compiler of the scrapbook as a note at the top is in the same hand as other notes elsewhere in the scrapbook. Compiler is believed to be James Palmer Wade, due to a reference within the book to "my poem"...

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....