Al Jolson, famous singing comedian of the stage and screen, stopped in Nashville “yesterday evening en route by plane to the West Coast for a surprise visit to his son, who celebrates his sixth birthday today. He is shown at the Hermitage Hotel...
A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...
Pictured: Dinah Shore with an unidentified man at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in sociology in 1938...
Pictured: Dinah Shore seated, with unidentified students and officials, on stage at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University...
Pictured: Dinah Shore seated with two students and a university official at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a...
Pictured: Dinah Shore standing between two Vanderbilt students, holding a school sweater. The university official is holding a framed document; the event is a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose...
Pictured: Dinah Shore addressing an audience at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in sociology in 1938 and...
A photograph of Dinah Shore surrounded by family and friends at the Nashville Airport. This partial text accompanied the photograph appearing in the Nashville Banner newspaper on March 15, 1941: "Dinah Shore, radio and record artist, stopped for...
A portrait photograph of Elizabeth Burgess Buford, a prominent educator and founder of Buford College, a school for young ladies that was first established in Clarksville, Tennessee in the 1880s and subsequently moved to Nashville in 1901. This...
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 served from 1943 until 1946 as a Gray Lady at...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Angeline Emma Butler, conducted in March 2005 by Rachel Lawson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Butler discusses...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Carol Warren conducted on November 03, 2011 by Bettina Warkentin as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Carol Warren is a musician whose Franklin home flooded during the May 2010 flood while...
An excerpt from an interview with Elizabeth Jacobs, conducted on December 22, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Jacobs discusses her role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. She...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Darla Tanner, conducted on April 13, 2011 by Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Darla Tanner describes the damage to her business Williams Wholesale Supply of Nashville and...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Ednaearle Burney, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include some of Ednaearle’s losses from the...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Lisa Morrison conducted on March 09, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lisa Morrison describes returning to her flood-devastated home, finding a new home for her...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Oralene Day, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Jared Brennan and Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Day describes the support she received from the Red Cross and McGruder...
Excerpt from Scott Atkinson, Lesli Bills, and Billy Heldenberg Oral History Interview, conducted on 27 April 2011 by Bradley Aders as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lesli Bills and Billy Heldenberg were rescued from Lesli’s...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Thelma Sanders Hunter, conducted on February 22, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Thelma Sanders-Hunter, a Bordeaux resident, describes the support she received...