A color postcard of buildings on the campus of the George Peabody College for Teachers, circa the 1930s. The six buildings depicted on the postcard include the Library, West Dormitory, Social-Religious Building, Jesup Psychological Laboratory,...
A photograph of McKendree Methodist Church at 523 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1930s. The church was named for Bishop William McKendree, the first American bishop. This is the fourth McKendree Methodist Church building to occupy this...
A photograph of Security Pawn, a pawnshop located at 3025 Nolensville Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly Fourth Avenue Church of Christ, this building was erected in the 1930s. The church later changed its name to Nolensville Road Church of...
A photograph of the B & W Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue North, Nashville Tennessee. The cafeteria was started by Fred R. Webber, Sr. around 1930. Sixth Avenue was a business hub in the late 1930s and 1940s. Thousands of workers came to the cafeteria...
A photograph of the exposed interior walls of the Knickerbocker Theater in Nashville, Tennessee featuring birds-of-paradise frescoes on the walls (pictured in this photograph). The Knickerbocker was originally a magnificent movie house, located in...
A photograph of the grand opening of the million-dollar Tennessee Theatre (built on the first floor of the 1930's Sudekum building) on February 28, 1952, featured appearances by state and local politicians, celebrities and the cast of the movie...
A photograph of the Stagecrafters theater group. Formed in 1906, the Stagecrafters were the earliest of Nashville's local theater groups. Their membership was limited to 50 drama devotees. The purpose was to "develop talent among amateurs and to...
A photograph of the Tennessee National Guard building and truck at Nashville Municipal Airport with signage saying “Join the new Tennessee National Guard, Earn, Learn, Serve.” The National Guard continued to be based at the Nashville Airport...
A photograph of the Tennessee Teachers Credit Union located at 1400 Eighth Avenue South in Nashville, Tenn. The building originally was constructed as a church for the South End Methodist Episcopal congregation in 1910. An education wing was...
A photograph of the Tulane Hotel as it appeared circa the 1930s, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...
A photograph of United Primitive Baptist Church located at 2911 Clifton Road (now Avenue) in Nashville, Tennessee. Now reportedly being used as a duplex home with barbecue smoking equipment in the back, this structure began as St. Phillip's...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Office Building, located east of the Capitol at 500 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The 108,349 square foot building is an example of the "New Deal" era style of government buildings constructed in the...
A postcard of the Union Bus Terminal located at 517 Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the latter part of the 1930s, this bus terminal exemplified the art deco architecture style of the time period. According to city...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted on 03 November 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, cartoonist with the Memphis Commercial Appeal from the early 1930s to circa 1944. This anti-Nazi cartoon depicts the cloud of "D-Day" in the background, while a fearful Hitler has a heavy...
An undated photograph of the non-extant Nashville & Decatur Railroad depot building, built in 1868. The original immense Gothic Revival structure was located at the corner of Chestnut Street and Fourth Avenue (Cherry Street) and constructed of...
Pictured: An unidentified man at the podium of the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. General MacArthur and his wife Jean Faircloth MacArthur are seated at center...
Pictured: Arthur MacArthur (the son of Gen. Douglas and Jean Faircloth MacArthur) with a wrapped present, seated next to his military father, with others at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur...
Pictured: Arthur MacArthur standing on the platform with his mother Jean Faircloth MacArthur (wife of Gen. Douglas MacArthur), smiling and waving to the crowd, during the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the...
Pictured: Arthur MacArthur, young son of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Jean Faircloth MacArthur standing with his parents at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. The...