A close-up photograph of a window structure and porchtop of the Lynnlawn mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, built by Thomas E. Stratton circa 1852. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the facade of the architecture has been attributed to...
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 a plaster ceiling medallion, with electrical fixture, at the Lynnlawn mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, built by Thomas E. Stratton circa 1852. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the facade has been attributed to William...
A photograph of Belmont Baptist Church located on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Two men stand outside of the entrance. The church was built in 1906 as Belmont Baptist Church. In 1921 the church was sold and became Waverly...
A photograph of the architectural cornice designs of the porch structure of Lynnlawn mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, 1959. Lynnlawn was built by Thomas E. Stratton circa 1852. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the façade has been...
A photograph of the former Belmont Baptist Church, now Hope Center located at 2415 Twelfth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was erected in 1906 on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Its address was originally...
A photograph of the Lynnlawn mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, built by Thomas E. Stratton circa 1852. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the facade has been attributed to William Strickland. The mansion was located at 617 Gallatin Road,...
A photograph of the porch structure of Lynnlawn mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, built by Thomas E. Stratton circa 1852. Designed in the Italian Renaissance style, the architectural facade has been attributed to William Strickland. The mansion was...
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...
A typescript copy of an original will of Mrs. E. S. Bailey, dated June 12th, 1896, Sharon, Tennessee, Weakley County, citing that she is “revoking two others … one the 10 of June 1895, the other the 15 of September, 1895.” Certified by C. H....
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...
An original will of Christina E. Abbay. Illustrates the first page of the document.Abbay's will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on April 12th, 1910. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills, 1780-1925.
An original will of E. A. Alexander, dated August 12th, 1905. Illustrates the first page of the document. Alexander’s will was presented for probate to the DeKalb County Court on August 21st, 1915. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Elizabeth Aykroyd, dated December 12th, 1868. Illustrates the first page of the document. Aykroyd’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on May 3rd, 1869. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Gloss Allen, a nuncupative oral will, “done in the sick chamber of the said Gloss Allen, on Saturday, August 25, 1900.” It was a contested will. Illustrates the first page of the document. It was put into writing by the...
An original will of Henry Baker, “of the County of Davidson, State of Tennessee,” dated September 26th, 1893, that was probated in the Davidson County Court on April 12th, 1894, recorded in “Will Book 32, Page 313.” Illustrates the first...
An original will of James M. Alexander, dated August 12th, 1905. Illustrates the first page of the document. Alexander’s will was presented for probate to the DeKalb County Court on August 21st, 1915. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of John Anderson, Senior, dated January 12th, 1836. Illustrates the first page of the document. Anderson’s will was “recorded in Book No. 11, Pages 21 & 22” in Davidson County, Tennessee. Forms part of Record Group 16,...
An original will of John C. Adamson, dated April 14th, 1913. Illustrates the first page of the document. Adamson’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on August 12th, 1915. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills,...
An original will of Kate Badoux, of Nashville, Tennessee, dated November 12th, 1886. Illustrates the first page of the document. Badoux’ will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court during the October Term 1891, recorded in...