Nashville Public Library Digital Collections
Nashville Public Library Digital Collections
During May 1-2, 2010, Nashville received an unprecedented 13.57 inches of rainfall for a two-day period. Flooding devastated areas throughout Nashville and surrounding counties. The Flood 2010 Digital History Project documents the historic Nashville flood and its aftermath, as told by the people who lived through it. Library staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with citizens, city officials, and local organization leaders from different neighborhoods of Nashville. The collection consists of oral histories, still images, videos, narratives, and relief posters.
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included Vice President Albert Gore and Tipper Gore, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior Design Collection includes over 800 titles from his personal and professional book collection, as well as sketches and ephemera.
Over 15,000 postcards, color and black & white, including some art prints and photocards. While the collection includes cards from many U.S. states and some foreign countries, the emphasis is upon Nashville and Tennessee scenes of the twentieth century, among which are Nashville street scenes, businesses, colleges and universities, homes and parks. The art prints include cartoons, greeting cards, and oversized postcards.
The items were collected with a strong interest in the development of the modern civil rights movement and its impact in American life. The digital collection serves as a classic work in the modern civil rights history as well as contemporary resources. The focus of the collection presents primary sources that document the leadership and contributions the city of Nashville made to the national civil rights movement. These efforts are vividly documented in photographs, text documents, oral histories, ephemera, periodicals, records and manuscripts of those who sought to revolutionize America.
The Nashville City Cemetery Lot Cards provide burial information by lot. Information includes the lot owner, lot location, and the date when the lot was purchased. Names of those buried on each lot is given and is often accompanied by a plat map showing the location of each grave. The data on the cards was obtained from sources including interment records and a 1908 listing of existing tombstones and monuments.
The Limited Editions Collection includes over 800 books, dating from 1929 to the present, most published by the Limited Editions Club and Arion Press, as well as separate portfolios of some of the fine artwork that illustrates many of the beautifully-bound books.
Nashville Public Library's digital collections include photographs, postcards, maps, manuscript documents and oral history clips from our Special Collections Division, Metropolitan Archives, Reference and Children's Divisions. Enjoy what Nashville has to offer!