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Mss0535. Miscellaneous Twentieth Century Documents Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection comprises a group of twentieth century documents, including letters, broadsides, and publications.

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Mss0077. Paul A. Flowers Papers Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection includes correspondence, photographs and publications documenting the work and family of Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper columnist Paul A. Flowers (1905-1984).

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Mss0539. Odie H. Tolbert Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection contains documents, newspapers, magazines, books, pamphlets, and a few audio-visual materials regarding the Church of God in Christ community in Memphis, Tennessee and about gospel music and its history. There are also some newspapers and magazines from the Assemblies of God church community.

Mss0239. David Rosenthal Papers Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection is comprised of one college-ruled notebook that David Rosenthal (1879-1978) turned into a scrapbook about his life and times as a stage manager, Shriner, and masonic order member in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Mss0212. Jones-Black Family Papers Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection consists of letters, business documents, and personal papers and belongings owned by Alexander M. Jones, a Confederate soldier, Sarah “Sallie” J. Jones, and their extended families. The Joneses and their extended families lived in the Southern United States pre-, peri-, and post-Civil War.

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Mss0456. Edmund Warren Perry, Jr., Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection, belonging to Edmund Warren Perry, Jr., playwright and director, contains playbills, programs, flyers, posters, publications, and other memorabilia from the worlds of theatre, dance, and opera. They mostly encompass American performances and theatres, but also include some European countries like the United Kingdom and France. A few of these materials directly relate to Perry regarding the plays he wrote and directed.

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Mss0357. Hair Archives Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection is about the 1970 production of the musical Hair at the Memphis State University theatre and subsequent reunions. It includes correspondence, production material, records of public reaction, props and costumes from the production, interviews, and other associated material.

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The Significance Of The Automobile In 20th C. American Short Fiction, Megan M. Flanery

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Midcentury American life featured a post-war economy that established a middle class in which disposable income and time for leisure were commonplace. In this socio-economic environment, consumerism flourished, ushering in the Golden Age of the automobile: from 1950 to 1960, Americans spent more time in their automobiles than ever before, and, by the end of the decade, the number of cars on the road had more than doubled. While much critical attention has been given to the role of the automobile in American novels, less has been given to its role in American short stories. The automobile has been featured …

Circulation Of Orhan Pamuk’S Benim Adim Kirmizi [My Name Is Red] In Contemporary Chinese-Indonesian Literature, Sebnem N. Karali, Alberta Natasia Adji

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This article is an exploration of contemporary Turkish and Chinese-Indonesian literatures with regards to a mid to late 18th Century literary niche: the it-narrative. Thinking (noesis) back and forth between centuries and different literary genres makes (poiesis) the conversation possible, which addresses the socio-literary imagination of the last four centuries. The authors re- examine the genre of it-narrative outside 18th Century studies and reassess the encounter of Turkish author Orhan Pamuk and Chinese-Indonesian author Alberta Natasia Adji within the socio-cultural and historico-political context of modern Turkey and Indonesia. The question is how Pamuk’s use of prosopopoeia in his 1998 novel …

Judges’ Evaluation Reliability Changes Between Identifiable And Anonymous Performance Of Hip-Hop Dance Movements, Nahoko Sato, Luke S. Hopper

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

© 2021 Sato, Hopper. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hip-hop competitions are performed across the world. In the recent inclusion in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, the assessment of hip-hop performance is undertaken by a panel of judges. The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of different visualisation tools utilised in the assessment of the hip-hop dance movements. Ten dancers performed basic rhythmic hip-hop movements which were captured …

Impact Of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Outbreak Quarantine, Isolation, And Lockdown Policies On Mental Health And Suicide, Balasankar Ganesan, Adel Al-Jumaily, Kenneth N. K. Fong, Palak Prasad, Surendra Kumar Meena, Raymond Kai-Yu Tong

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has made a huge impact on people's physical and mental health, and it remains a cause of death for many all over the world. To prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, different types of public health measures (social isolation, quarantine, lockdowns, and curfews) have been imposed by governments. However, mental health experts warn that the prolonged lockdown, quarantine, or isolation will create a “second pandemic” with severe mental health issues and suicides. The quarantined or isolated people may suffer from various issues such as physical inactivity, mental health, economic and social problems. As with …

Change In Mental Health, Physical Health, And Social Relationships During Highly Restrictive Lockdown In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Australia, Shane Rogers, Travis Miles Cruickshank

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Background

A novel coronavirus first reported in Wuhan City in China in 2019 (COVID-19) developed into a global pandemic throughout 2020. Many countries around the world implemented strict social distancing policies to curb the spread of the virus. In this study we aimed to examine potential change in mental/physical health and social relationships during a highly restrictive COVID-19 lockdown period in Australia during April 2020.

Methods

Our survey (n = 1, 599) included questions about concerns, social behaviour, perceived change in relationship quality, social media use, frequency of exercise, physical health, and mental health during COVID-19 lockdown (April, 2020). …

The Fringe Or The Heart Of Things? Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Musics In Australian Music Institutions, Clint Bracknell, Linda Barwick

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Teetering on the fringe of Australian music scholarship and knowledge institutions, research and teaching of local Indigenous musics hold a marginal place, belying the positioning of Indigenous music-makers at the centre of international representations of Australian culture, and the dynamic local connections of Indigenous music-making to Australian landscapes and social realities. Music’s ubiquity and diversity worldwide show its potential as a tool to manage the changing world in societies of the past and present, yet this potential is largely neglected in contemporary Australia, and our theories and evidence base are limited by the narrow western focus within our knowledge institutions. …

Draft Article: Liberty Or License By Lloyd Binford, 1950

Documents

Letter and article (copies) submitted by Lloyd T. Binford, President of the Memphis Board of Censors, Memphis, Tennessee, to Collier’s Magazine, New York, May 30, 1950. It was sent in response to a critical article in Collier’s on May 6, 1950, titled “You Can’t See That Movie”.

Program: Guys & Dolls, Memphis, 1959

Documents

Program of the musical "Guys & Dolls" directed by George Touliatos at the Front St. Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee, in July 1959.

Program: Memphis Civic Ballet, 1960

Documents

Program of performances by the Memphis Civic Ballet of "Allegro Veneziana", "Astromythos", "Pas de Trois from Swan Lake Act I" and "Estampas" at Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee, on March 24-26, 1960.

Program: Don Juan In Hell, Memphis, 1960

Documents

Program of the play "Don Juan in Hell", adapted from Shaw's "Man and Superman", directed by George Touliatos at the Front St. Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee, in January 1960.

A Trip To Funnyland Program, Memphis, 1910

Documents

Program for "A Trip to Funnyland", a benefit performance on behalf of Baptist Memorial Hospital, held at the Lyceum Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee, on April 22-23, 1910.

Letter: Peter Taylor To Nadine Parker, 1944

Documents

Letter from Peter Taylor, Camp Butner, North Carolina, to Nadine Parker, Memphis, Tennessee, dated February 9, 1944. Describes army training at Camp Butner and that his wife Eleanor is close by. States that he will be going overseas: "I am eager for experiences which I may have, especially if we go to the European theatre. I am frightened at the thought of actual combat in which there is, of course, a chance of my taking part. And I am distraught at the prospect of leaving Eleanor,…"

Memphis Business, 21:7, 1957

Other documents

Vol. 21, No. 7 of Memphis Business published by the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, Memphis, Tennessee, in October 1957.

Sarah Bernhardt Program, Memphis, 1906

Documents

Program from French actress Sarah Bernhardt's (1844-1923) matinee performance of "La Dame Aux Camelias" and the evening performance of "La Sorciere" on Wednesday, March 7, 1906, at Hopkins Grand Opera House, corner of Main and Beale, in Memphis, Tennessee. This was billed as the "Farewell American Tour of the World's Greatest Actress" that took her across the United States in 1905 to 1906.

Atlantis, Memphis, 1:3, 1969

Documents

Vol. 1, No. 3 of "Atlantis", a newspaper published by Love Incorporated, 1665 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, on November 3, 1969. Jim Godown was the publisher. Includes articles on the Beatles and the Family motorcycle club.

River City Review, Vol. 1:3, Memphis, 1971

Documents

Vol. 1, No. 3 of "River City Review", a monthly newspaper published in 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee. The newspaper was published by James M. Godown and included articles on local music, record reviews, and interviews. This issue included an interview with Stanley Booth on the Rolling Stones, and articles on the Madison Avenue Sidewalk Art Festival, Overton Park Expressway, and Memphis theater.

Thunderbolt, U.S. Army 83rd Infantry Division, 1945

Other documents

Vol. 6, No. 27 of "Thunderbolt: Weekly Newspaper of the 83rd Infantry Division", Linz, Austria, published on November 3, 1945.

River City Blues Festival Program, Memphis, 1971

Documents

Program for the River City Blues Festival held at the Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, on December 3, 1971. It featured Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, Sam Clark, Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Hammie Nixon and Sleepy John Estes, Willie Morris, Mrs. Van Hunt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Richard "Hacksaw" Harney, Willie "61" Blackwell, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Houston Stackhouse, “Sweet Charlene”, and Bukka White.

Humes High School, Memphis, Humes High Herald, November 12, 1941

Documents

Vol. 16, No. 3 of the "Humes High Herald", the student newspaper of Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee, published on November 12, 1941.

L.C. Humes High School, at 659 N. Manassas Street, was open as a high school from the 1920s through 1967.

U.S. Army, 311th Infantry, 1st Battalion, 78th Division, The City Slicker, 1945

Documents

Vol. 1, No.3 of "The City Slicker" published by the 311th Infantry, 1st Battalion, 78th Division of the U.S. Army at Fulda, Germany, on May 25, 1945.

Mountaineers

Documents

An undated (circa 1950) 66-page book titled "Mountaineers", a unit history of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division's service during World War II, published by Artcraft Press, Denver, Colorado. The narrative was edited by T/4 Theodore Lockwood, the sketches were made by M/Sgt. Robert Willis, S/Sgt. Robert Fels and Sgt. Jacques Parker, and the maps were drawn by Sgt. Armand Casini. Some annotations were made by Salvatore Palazolo.

St. Agnes Academy, Memphis, Aquila, 1933

Documents

Vol.8:2 (Graduate Issue) of "The Aquila", the school magazine of St. Agnes Academy, Memphis, Tennessee, published in June 1933.

Christian Brothers College, Memphis, Play Program, 1925

Documents

Program of the play "A Pair of Sixes" performed by the high school seniors of Christian Brothers College, Memphis, Tennessee, at the Lyceum Theatre on May 22, 1925. Includes photographs of the cast, boosters club and football team.