27; West; 14; 10.0x40.0; 429; I; 09/28/1848; Perry, J. P. 1820-1886; Perry, Jessie 1847-1848; Perry, John B. 1813-1869; Cobb, Orville 1901-1902; Luster, T. E. -1902
20; West; 21; 20.0x34.0; 68; III; 07/23/1857; Bond, John B. 1845-1920; Bond, O.Z. 1846-1941; Gaither, Mary D.Z. 1850-1871; Sansom, Louisa Z. 1856-1949 (Plat book says she was born in 1849); Sansom, Rich H. 1854-1923; Wilson, James Hazzard...
An original will of John Baier, dated October 7th, 1901. Subscribed to by Wm. R. Fisher and Louis Vaupel as attesting witnesses. Illustrates the first page of the document. Baier’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on...
An original will of Joseph W. Allen, September 30th, 1901. He was a prominent Nashville banker. The will is subscribed to by attesting witnesses N. P. Lesueur and Leslie Warner. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was...
An original will of Albert S. Ambrose, dated May 31st, 1902. Illustrates the first page of the document. Ambrose’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on June 16th, 1902. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills,...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The drawing...
A photograph of the sculpture of the east pediment and metopes of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. The pediment sculpture shows an artists conception of the birth of Athena, who was depicted in Greek myth as having sprung, full grown and in...
A color postcard of the Golf and Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The first nine holes were completed by the summer of 1901. Fields were cut by mule-drawn mowers to prepare for the holes. The first clubhouse, as seen on the postcard, was...
A photograph of an aerial view of the Nashville Bridge Company with the Shelby Street Bridge and downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in the background. The company was started in 1902 by Arthur J. Dyer, who graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in...
A photograph of Shiloh Baptist Church located at 1117 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was erected in the late 1940s, while the congregation was organized around 1902. The original site of the church was at Rolling Mill...
A postcard of the early St. Thomas Hospital, sometimes referred to as St. Thomas Sanitarium. The hospital is named for its founder, Bishop Thomas S. Byrne of Nashville. In 1898 he bought a mansion home in a residential West End neighborhood on...
A photograph of E. Gray Smith, Packard dealership, located at 2400 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. E. Gray Smith was a longtime Nashville auto dealer whose father was one of the first local car dealers starting around 1902. In this view of...
A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
An original will of Harris Abrahams, dated November 14th, 1902. Illustrates the first page of the document. Abraham’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on October 26th, 1914. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
Related to the last will and testament and of Alvin F. Ahlum. Illustrates the first page of a form stating “we have examined the records and files in the office of the Surrogate of the County of New York, do find there remaining, a certain...
A typescript copy of the will of Eli Akins, of Chicago, Illinois, dated December 26th, 1902. Illustrates the first page of the document, referring to a realty lot in “G. W. Harding’s plan of lots as registered in the registers office of...
An original will of Mary S. Allen, dated May 30th, 1902. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on August 16th, 1909. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills,...
An original will of Robert O. Allen, Lawyer, dated April 24th, 1902, with a codicil dated November 2nd, 1914. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on September 12th,...
The Nashville Bridge Company off-street parking, circa 1953. The McCann Steel Company at 400 2nd Avenue S can be seen in the background. The Cumberland Oil Company is on the right at 106 Shelby Avenue 6. The Nashville Bridge Company was...
The Nashville Bridge Company, in February 1953, located along the east side of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced a...