Thirty-one (31) Pre Civil War newspapers, mostly Tennessee, including William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (1805-1877) TENNESSEE WHIG and THE JONESBOROUGH WHIG, THE RAIL-ROAD ADVOCATE, HICKORY STATE HERALD, KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE with articles about the 1848 United States presidential election between General Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party and Senator Lewis Cass of the Democratic Party, and more, 33 items total. 1st item: TENNESSEE WHIG, Vol. 1, No. 5, Elizabethton, Thursday June 13, 1839, edited by W. G. Brownlow, printed and published by M.R. Lyon. 2nd item: THE JONESBOROUGH WHIG, AND INDEPENDENT JOURNAL, Vol. 4, No. 28, Wednesday November 22, 1842, edited by W.G. Brownlow. 3rd item: INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE AND THE UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER, Boston, Vol. 27, No. 1455, Monday, February 16, 1795, published by Adams and Larkin. 4th item: THE RAIL-ROAD ADVOCATE, Rogersville, Vol. 1, No. 17. 5th item: Classifieds page from a Tennessee newspaper, circa Monday March 20, 1815. 6th item: HICKORY STATE HERALD, Vol. 1, No. [NP], Jonesborough, Sunday, July 26, 1846, printed and published by William H. Smith and Company. 7th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 2, No. 10, Wednesday, July 28, 1847, James C. Walker and John Miller M'Kee, editors and proprietors. 8th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 2, No. 15, Wednesday, September 1, 1847. 9th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 2, No. 22, Wednesday, October 20, 1847. 10th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 2, No. 45, Wednesday, April 5, 1848. 11th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 2, No. 32, Wednesday, January 5, 1848. 12th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 3, Wednesday, July 5, 1848, John Miller M'Kee, editor and proprietor. 13th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 6, Wednesday, July 5, 1848. 14th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 13, Wednesday, August 23, 1848. 15th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 15, Wednesday, September 6, 1848. 16th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 18, Wednesday, September 27, 1848. 17th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 22, Wednesday, October 25, 1848. 18th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 24, Wednesday, November 8, 1848. 19th item: KNOXVILLE TRIBUNE, Vol. 3, No. 40, Wednesday, March 7, 1849. 20th item: KNOXVILLE REGISTER, Vol. 31, No. 1725, Saturday, June 1, 1850. Includes ink inscription reading "Presented to F.W. Taylor 2d by Robt. C Crouch May 1907" (see Lot 721). 21st item: GLEASON'S PICTORIAL, Boston, Vol. 2, No. 1, Saturday, January 1852, published by F. Gleason. 22nd item: KNOXVILLE REGISTER, Vol. 36, No. 1814, Wednesday, February 11, 1852. 23rd item: KNOXVILLE REGISTER, Vol. 37, No. 20, Wednesday August 18, 1852. 24th item: Front page of KNOXVILLE REGISTER, Vol. 37, No. 34, Monday, August 30, 1852. 25th item: THE GLOBE, Washington, D.C., Vol. 2, No. 81, Wednesday, September 12, 1852, published semi-weekly by F.P. Blair. 26th item: KNOXVILLE REGISTER, Vol. 37, No. 79, Monday, December 13, 1852. 27th item: THE NEW YORK HERALD, Morning Edition, Monday, June 11, 1855. 28th item: THE DAILY EXPRESS, Petersburg, Vol. 4, No. 144, Saturday Morning, June 16, 1855, published by A.F. Crutchfield and Company. 29th item: DANDRIDGE HERALD, Vol. 2, No. 7, Friday, December 22, 1855, published by R.M. Parrott. 30th item: THE WEEKLY DISPATCH, Richmond, Vol. 10, No. 20, Friday, May 28, 1860, by Cowardin and Hammersley. 31st item: Reprint ULSTER COUNTY GAZETTE, Kingston, Vol. 2, No. 88, January 4, 1800, published by Samuel Freer and Son. 32nd item: Clipped section from a Knoxville newspaper, circa August 18, 1880. 33rd item: NEWPORT TIMES, Vol. 15, No. 29, Wednesday, March 30, 1910. Ranging in size from 19" H x 11 1/2" W to 24 1/4" H x 36" W. Provenance: Estate of Anne Harrison Taylor & Joseph F. Taylor, Morristown, TN. Note: The numeral ink inscriptions on several of the items likely refers to an inventory list created by Joseph Feamster Taylor (1892-1965) of Whitesburg, TN, son of Franklin Walter Taylor (1854-1919), grandson of Franklin William Taylor (1810-1897), great grandson of Lieutenant William Graham (1786-1857, served circa 1807-1815 in the Sixth Regiment in the Tennessee State Militia), and father of Joseph Franklin Taylor (1934-2015). CONDITION: Most with toning, areas of dampstaining, foxing spots, to be expected from age. Tears, holes, largest 9 1/2" x 3 1/2", primarily to fold lines. 1st item: 12" x 11" section of back page is not present. 4th item: 3 1/2" x 1" area to top right of front page not present. 21st item: 5" x 11" lower sections of first and last few pages are not present.