ThumbnailInformation

Camel rides at reasonable prices, circa 1943

Photograph of soldiers in uniform, most with their backs towards the camera, gathered around a kneeling camel. One soldier appears to be mounting or dismounting the camel, assisted by a man in a turba ...

More info

Christmas services bulletin, 1945

A Japanese-inspired Christmas bulletin listing the service times for Catholic mass and Protestant services to be held for the 10th Marines, 2nd Marine Division in Kyushu, Japan, 1945. This bulletin w ...

More info

City Road Methodist Church Contact newsletter, 1944 June

A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road Sout ...

More info

Cover of Edward E. O'Connor's "Service Album, U.S. Army Air Forces," 1943

Cover of photograph album compiled by Loraine O'Connor while her husband, Edward, was serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II. Edward E. O'Connor Jr. was born on Jan. 14, 1915 in Nashville ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, 2004 November 01

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, 2004 March 01

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, 2003 July 07

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. As a Marine ph ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., 2003 February 03

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., conducted on 3 February 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Bask ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 1 from oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., 2003 January 27

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., conducted on 27 January 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Bask ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, 2004 November 01

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, 2004 March 01

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, 2003 July 07

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his sepa ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., 2003 January 27

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., conducted on 27 January 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Bask ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 3 from oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, 2004 November 01

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 3 from oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, 2004 March 01

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 3 from oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, 2003 July 07

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his sepa ...

More info

Audio

Excerpt 3 from oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., 2003 January 27

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., conducted on 27 January 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Bask ...

More info

Group of five soldiers in woods during training, between 1939 and 1945

A snapshot of a group of five soldiers posed casually in the woods outside of a large tent next to a tree serving as a signpost. Two homemade signs reading "5th Ave." and "Church Street," are nailed ...

More info

Letter to mother from Jessie Wallace, 1945 January 07

A two-page typewritten letter by Jessie Wallace to her mother, Mrs. C.M. (Lorine) Wallace of Ames, Iowa. Jessie grew up in Oklahoma and her family moved to Iowa during the Depression. During World Wa ...

More info

Letter to parents from Clarence Jackson "Jack" Davis, 1951 October 18

A one-page (front and back) handwritten letter by Clarence Jackson "Jack" Davis, to his parents, Mr. Benton V. Davis and Mrs. Mildred Jackson Davis, of Nashville, Tenn. Jack Davis joined the Marine C ...

More info