SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series 1:  Scrapbooks , .5 cubic feet
The earlier scrapbook was compiled during Kiger's youth in Nashville and contains a variety of materials from the late 1920s and 1930s.  The later scrapbook contained only four pages of photographs, primarily of servicemen from the Smyrna Air Base.  Since the scrapbook paper is deteriorating rapidly, the photos were not glued in the scrapbook, and the scrapbook contained only a few lines of text, it was decided to remove the photographs and include them with the rest of the photo collection.  The photos have been kept in same order as they appeared in Kiger's scrapbook.

Series 2:  Personal, 3 folders
This series contains memorabilia from Kiger’s youth in Nashville.  There are three issues of the Tatler, a small weekly newsletter of Hume-Fogg High School, postcards, an undated Grand Ole Opry program, and an invitation to a meeting of the Young Democratic Club.       

Series 3:  Smyrna Air Base, 8 folders
Assorted Smyrna Air Base and World War II army related memorabilia make up this series that spans the years 1943-1946 when Kiger was the Assistant Provost Marshall.  Correspondence, clippings, a telephone directory, and even a joke are included.

Related Materials
All photographs and negatives from the Kiger Collection are stored separately in the Kiger Photograph Collection.  The photographs span Kiger’s youth to her time at the Smyrna Air Base.  Richard Kiger also included several photographs of Granville Lipscomb, a popular chemistry teacher at Hume-Fogg High School.