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[Identification of item], in the Edward Ward Carmack Papers, #1414, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1947

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• African American agricultural laborers--Tennessee--Photographs.
• Burnside (Ky.)--History.
• Carmack, Edward Ward, 1858-1908.
• Democratic Party (Tenn.)--History.
• Journalists--Tennessee--Political activity.
• Lakeland (Fla.)--History.
• Lumber trade--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Philippines--History--Philippine American War, 1899-1902.
• Plantation life--Tennessee--Photographs.
• Political campaigns--Tennessee--History.
• Prohibition--Tennessee--History.
• Real property--Florida--History.
• Tennessee--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Editor of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., newspapers, prohibitionist, United States representative, 1897-1901, and senator, 1901-1907.

Papers, chiefly from 1890, of Edward Ward Carmack, the bulk pertaining to elections: 1896 and 1898 when Carmack was elected to the House; 1906 when he was defeated for re-election to the Senate; and 1908, when he was defeated in the Democratic primary for governor. These items include papers relating to the campaigns, speeches, and letters of congratulations. Also included are political scrapbooks; correspondence, 1902, and a scrapbook concerning the Philippine question (Carmack was anti-imperialist); messages received on Carmack's assassination; personal and business papers of Carmack's widow and son in the 1920s; a lettercopy book of a lumber business in Burnside, Ky., 1894-1895; and a collection of photographs of African American agricultural laborers and other plantation scenes.