M. Werthan and Company was founded by Meier Werthan in 1895. He was originally in the business of buying, reconditioning, and selling used burlap bags. By 1913, the business expanded into the manufacture of new textile bags, made of cotton fabric...
An August 1957 launching of a barge onto the Cumberland River, next to the Nashville Bridge Company. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 2 photograph negatives : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Guilford Dudley, Jr. pictured with Mayor West, and an unidentified man, circa 1957, receiving his “This is Your Life” album. Guilford Dudley, Jr. (1907-2002) was the United States ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential...
Joe E. Torrence (pictured on the right) with an unidentified man at an August 1974 United Way event. It was in 1954 when Nashville business leaders established the United Givers Fund (UGF), replacing the Community Chest, soliciting funds within...
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland was met at the airport by the “Red Carpet Club” of Nashville and made Honorary Citizen and presented key to the city on July 12th, 1961. Robert “Bob” Briscoe was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served...