A portrait of an unidentified Meharry Medical College graduate, circa 1900. The school was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College and the first medical school in the South for African Americans. It was chartered...
A photograph, ca. 1900, of the north end of the City Hall and market place of Nashville, Tennessee, located on the Public Square. The market place area shows vendor wagons and townspeople. The building was razed in 1935, to make way for a new...
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 M. L. Andrews, Jr., dated January 21st, 1897. Illustrates the first page of the document. Andrews’ will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court during the 1900’s. The notation on the verso cites probate:...
An original will of Thomas A. Atchison, dated April 16th, 1900. Illustrates the first page of the document. Atchison’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on October 8th, 1900. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
Mary Hannah Johnson shown standing in front of a large painting. She is wearing a floor-length burgundy dress trimmed with lace at the neckline and sleeves. She is also wearing a very large hat with burgundy feathers. Her right hand is holding...
A young Mary Hannah Johnson, shown in profile view from the right side. Her shoulders are bare and she is wearing a pearl choker. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, and an active suffragette, Mary Hannah Johnson began and developed the free...
Mary Frances Battle Perry as a young girl, in a white dress with ruffles and a large white bow in her hair. Born in 1897, Mary Frances Battle Perry was the daughter of Alfred Blackman and Blanche Goodall Battle, the sister of Anne Elizabeth...
A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...
A photograph of the electric streetcar that transported passengers along the Cedar Street (Charlotte Avenue) line in Nashville. The Tennessee State Capitol is shown in the background. A reproduced photographic print from the original. Forms part of...
An original will of Hugh Allison, dated March 5th, 1888. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allison’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on August 3rd, 1900. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills,...
An original will of Thomas J. Allison, dated November 7th, 1897. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allison’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on November 20th, 1900. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Joseph Ambrose, dated November 20th, 1894. Illustrates the first page of the document. Ambrose’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on July 10th, 1900. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original Wills,...
An original will of Johnetta Baker, dated July 3rd, 1900. Illustrates the first page of the document, written on stationery of the T.E. Baker & Bro. Groceries and Country Produce … Grain and Hay …, 329 Broad Street. The notation on the...
A photograph of the Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ located at 3 Lindsley Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The building permit for this church was obtained by Robert Sharp, a Nashville architect who later worked on Hume-Fogg school. Originally...
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 photograph of the train shed at Nashville's Union Station at Broadway and 10th Avenue just to the west of the downtown area, circa 1936. Union Station is a former railroad terminal opened in 1900 to serve the passenger operations of the eight...
A photograph of Captain James Pierre Drouillard II, the son of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard and James Pierre Drouillard. He was born in Nashville in 1874. His great-grandfather was Anthony Wayne Van Leer, the founder of the iron works,...
6; ---; 10; 10.0x15.0; *Can't find the deed, bu according to the Plat book this lot is owned by a Petty; Biggs, John A. 1856-1889; Biggs, Sarah 1806-1870; Petty, Sarah; Petty, A. L. 1900 (infant of)
A photograph showing a gargoyle on the stone column of the old Chamber of Commerce building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to the building's razing in the early 1970's, it housed the Vanderbilt Law Department...