A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville judge John L. Draper., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Malcolm McKinney as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Draper, who served Nashville as a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville barbershop owner James H. Crowder, conducted on 28 August 1986 by Reavis Mitchell as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Crowder discusses moving his barbershop in...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader James Stephen (Steve) Turner, conducted on 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History...
An excerpt from an interview with former Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Fulton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Wendell J. Gore, conducted on 24 October 2007 by StoryCorps facilitator Kate Wingate at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
An excerpt from an interview with Fate Thomas, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Thomas discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Fate Thomas, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Thomas discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Wallace Westfeldt, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Milt Capps as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Westfeldt, a...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Ednaearle Burney, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include some of Ednaearle’s losses from the...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Oralene Day, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Jared Brennan and Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Day describes the support she received from the Red Cross and McGruder...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with William Lytton, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lytton describes the support he received from church, friends and...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
This is a pass for Edward E. O'Connor, Jr., who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The card was issued at the gunnery school at Tyndall Field in Panama City, Florida, on August 24, 1944. The front of the card...
A postcard of the Cumberland River Wharf in downtown Nashville. Several boats are visible near the river bank. The thriving businesses of First and Second Avenues are also noticeable, with advertisements visible for H.G. Lipscomb & Co. and...
A postcard of the Cumberland River Wharf in downtown Nashville. Several boats are visible near the river bank. Buildings housing several businesses line First Avenue. The Woodland Street Bridge is pictured. An additional title on the card reads...
An illustrated newsclipping of the front page of the 24 December 1953 Nashville Banner, showing one of the youth choirs for the Fannie Battle carol singing on Christmas Eve, a festive tradition in support of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...