An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon is a caricature of the Democratic presidential balloting and supporters in the national election...
Aladdin Industries building, located at 703-705 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The company site was built in 1949 when they moved from Chicago to Nashville. Listed in the 1956 City Directory with Victor S. Johnson, Jr., President; T. A....
A photograph of Christ the King Catholic Church, located at 3001 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The church's first mass was held in 1937 inside of a two-story brick house that was situated on the property bought for the church by the...
Front of a color postcard depicting the eight-story high Davidson County Public Building and Court House, completed in 1937 at a cost of $2,000,000. Located on the site of the Old County Court House, it housed the county administrative offices and...
A photograph of E. Gray Smith, Packard dealership, located at 2400 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. E. Gray Smith was a longtime Nashville auto dealer whose father was one of the first local car dealers starting around 1902. In this view of...
A postcard of the Tulane Hotel, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old Nicholson House (a fancy boarding house...
A photograph of the House of Blessing located at 900 Gallatin Road in Nashville, Tennessee. This non-denominational church has been home to many different congregations over the years. According to the building's cornerstone the church was built...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
A photograph of four women in costume selling tickets to the Italian Street Fair. An article about the event appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper on October 8, 1956, citing: "Pizza, pepperoni and puppets abounded Saturday afternoon and...
The Nashville Bridge Company, in 1956, located along the east side of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced a continuous and...
A photograph of New Bethel Baptist Church located at 1080 Old Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The congregation organized in 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, six miles North of Nashville on White's Creek Pike. The...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. A cartoon portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United...
A photograph of a single African American standing in a long line of voters at Clinton, Tennessee's fire hall precinct. Segregationist candidates were defeated in this election. Earlier that year, on August 27, twelve African American students...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. This caricature depicts a worried President Gamal Nasser of Egypt straddling two sides of the Suez Canal while...
A photograph of the men of Engine Company 11 (located at 1204 Jefferson Street) standing in front of their fire hall honoring their leader, Captain Robert Campbell (holding award), who was retiring after being on the company roster 31 years as...
A photograph of Nashville Public Library staff members placing books on the shelves of the Nashville Public Library bookmobile, circa April 1955. This particular bookmobile was in service from 1954-1973, with approximately 3000 volumes aboard the...
A photograph of staff members pictured in front of a "library-on-wheels" bookmobile of the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1955. This particular bookmobile was in service from 1954-1973, with approximately 3000 volumes...
A photograph of the interior of the "traveling branch" bookmobile of the Nashville Public Library, depicting the librarian and the young readers, circa 1957. The bookmobile service in Davidson County, Tennessee originally began in the 1940's, when...
A photograph of the Nashville Public Library bookmobile featured in the Christmas parade of 1955. The bookmobile service in Davidson County, Tennessee originally began in the 1940's, when the State Library Project furnished a bookmobile which made...
A photograph showing young people greeting the arrival of the Nashville Public Library bookmobile, circa July, 1941, at Stewart's Cash Grocery in Davidson County, Tennessee. Mrs. Frances Parkes and Mrs. Leah Rose, employees of the Nashville Public...