A postcard of Ward-Belmont College. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary, (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing school. The school was located on the grounds of former Acklen...
A postcard of the North front of Ward-Belmont college, overlooking the city of Nashville. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary, (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing school. The...
A postcard of Belmont College, a collegiate and preparatory school for young ladies located in Nashville, Tennessee. This school for girls was opened in 1890 in the West End neighborhood, at the intersection of Broad and Vauxhall Streets. Some...
A postcard of Boscobel College in Nashville, Tennessee. This school for young ladies consisted of an Anna Shelby Williams' old east Nashville mansion and another large brick building atop a tree-covered hill. The ten acre campus was on Sevier...
A postcard of a dormitory building at Cumberland University located in Lebanon, Tennessee. Founded in 1842, the school is one of the six oldest academic institutions in the state of Tennessee. The campus occupies forty-three acres of land. The...
A postcard of The Fisk Memorial Chapel on the campus of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The chapel was built in 1892 by means of a legacy from General Clinton B. Fisk, (for whom the University is named), which, according to family wishes,...
A postcard of the Main Building at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. In an effort to create a major Southern teachers' college, the grounds and buildings of the former Peabody Normal School were donated to the George...
A postcard of Peabody Normal College, an outgrowth of the declining literary department of the University of Nashville on Second Avenue. In 1874 Barnas Sears, Peabody Education Fund administrator, offered $6,000 annually if the University of...
A postcard of the Industrial Arts building at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. In an effort to create a major Southern teachers' college, the grounds and buildings of the former Peabody Normal School were donated to...
A postcard of Radnor College in Nashville, Tennessee. Radnor College was started in 1906 on a hill overlooking Nolensville Pike by Presbyterian minister Andrew Nelson Eshman. Famous for its free four-week travel program, this women's college sent...
A postcard of the Belle H. Bennett Memorial on the campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for...
A postcard of the tower at Scarritt College for Christian Workers. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for women Christian missionaries. Like a teaching college...
A postcard of the Main Building on the Vanderbilt campus between 1898 and 1901. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail tycoon who had never even...
A postcard of the Main Building on the Vanderbilt Campus in 1901. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail tycoon who had never even visited the...
A postcard of Furman Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University. When Furman Hall opened in 1907, it was called the most modern chemistry/pharmacy building in the United States. Its name honors Francis Furman, a Nashville merchant, whose widow...
A postcard of Kirkland Hall, the building built to replace Vanderbilt's Main Building that burned in 1905. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail...
A souvenir postcard of Tennessee that labels nineteen major cities within the state. Accompanying cartoon renderings depict specific items of interest for different areas of Tennessee. Some highlighted items include: The Hermitage, the Parthenon...
A postcard of a tobacco field near Nashville, Tennessee. Two people's heads are visible among the plants, one wearing a white hat and one holding an umbrella and wearing a reddish hat. Tobacco has always been a profitable crop for the state of...