Photograph as originally submitted to this page in the Historical Marker Database www.HMdb.org. Click on photo to resize in browser. Scroll down to see metadata.

Photographer: via Tennessee Centennial Poems, Annie Somers Gilchrist (ed.) (public domain)
Taken: 1897
Caption: Mary Boyle Temple
Additional Description: She was the first president of the Ossoli Circle, the oldest federated women's club in the South. She also co-founded the Tennessee Woman's Press and Author's Club, the Knoxville Writer's Club, and the Knox County chapter of the League of Women Voters. Her efforts to save the Blount Mansion from demolition launched the historic preservation movement in Knoxville.
Submitted: April 13, 2022, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p648565
File Size: 0.148 Megabytes

To see the metadata that may be embedded in this photo, sign in and then return to this page.