Photograph of Cornelia Fort wearing pilot's coveralls, flying helmet, and goggles perched on top of her head, standing next to and leaning against the wing of a PT-19 training airplane in 1942. Fort was a young Nashville debutante who became a...
A postcard of Berry Field, Nashville's Municipal Airport, circa 1942. The caption on the verso reads: "Berry Field, Nashville's Municipal Airport, was named Berry Field in honor of Colonel Harry S. Berry, State W. P. A. Administrator. The total...
A photograph of a woman seated at a kiosk inside an unidentified building in Nashville, selling Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds. A large Minute Man poster encouraging people to buy bonds is to the left, and several women and a man are lined up to...
Pictured: Men standing in front of a big scrap collection near Family Service Laundry in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were...
Pictured: Students of East Nashville Junior High School, with their teacher, at their scrap collection, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw materials...
Pictured: Young school children standing at their scrap collection in a yard beside an unidentified school in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. A mule-drawn wagon is pictured with a scrap load. During World War II Americans were active with scrap...
Pictured: Young boys and women standing beside a scrap collection at an unidentified rural Middle Tennessee location, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging...
Pictured: Children and a wagon at their scrap collection in an unidentified rural area of Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: Young boys and women standing beside a scrap collection at an unidentified rural location in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were...
Front of a black and white postcard, circa 1942, depicting WWII military maneuvers in Tennessee, from official photographs of the U. S. Army and Marine Corps. Between September 1942 and March 1944 nearly one million soldiers trained in the...
This photograph of Librarian F. K. W. Drury and staff of the Nashville Public Library, Main (originally named the Carnegie Library of Nashville) appeared in the Nashville Banner 14 January 1942 issue illustrating the article "Library Completes 40...
The Watkins Institute in downtown Nashville at 605 Church Street, circa May, 1942. The Watkins Institute was founded by Samuel Watkins (1794-1880) through a gift in his will to establish a school for adult education. This school was located at...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa September 1942. By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion to finance the war...
Pictured: Children posing with their scrap collection and an American flag, next to a house where a Goodwill truck has arrived to gather the materials, circa October, 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the...