An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Tiffany Israel conducted on March 25, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include the volunteerism of Vanderbilt college students in flooded...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Charlotte Disney, conducted on October 28 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include the flooding of Disney’s home in Pennington Bend and...
Excerpt from Scott Atkinson, Lesli Bills, and Billy Heldenberg Oral History Interview, conducted on 27 April 2011 by Bradley Aders as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lesli Bills and Billy Heldenberg were rescued from Lesli’s...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Remziya Suleyman conducted on May 19, 2011 by Robin Robinson as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Suleyman discusses volunteer efforts and flood relief for the immigrant community in...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Darla Tanner, conducted on April 13, 2011 by Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Darla Tanner describes the damage to her business Williams Wholesale Supply of Nashville and...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Amelia Post conducted on August 9, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Amelia Post discusses flood relief for the immigrant community at Millwood Manor and other...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
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...
A postcard of Broadway Presbyterian Church, located at 1616 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was dedicated on January 11, 1911. The foundation was made of rough cut stone blocks. The exterior walls were tan brick. The roof...
A multi-page pamphlet outlining the American Bread Company's production of Holsum Bread products at the Nashville plant on Murfreesboro Road. Also included are mini headshots and bios for officers and executive personnel associated with the...
A photograph of Coast Guard sailor Victor Cooley (left) and an unidentified sailor aboard the destroyer escort, USS Mosley (DE-321), one of several Navy vessels manned by Coast Guard crews during World War II. The Mosley served on patrol in the...
A snapshot of a group of five soldiers posed casually in the woods outside of a large tent next to a tree serving as a signpost. Two homemade signs reading "5th Ave." and "Church Street," are nailed into the tree as if marking that intersection. ...
This booklet was published for new employees at the Nashville Bridge Company during the time of World War II. The beginning includes a brief history of the company during which it is explained that although the normal operations include...
A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...
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...
During the 1800s, educated young women in Nashville often collected sheet music. When a young lady had collected enough pieces of music, her assortment was generally published as a bound volume by one of Nashville's blank book manufacturers, with...
A program for the Nashville Community Playhouse's sixty-sixth production, Dinner at Eight by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, and directed by Raymond Johnson. The production ran from October 8 through October 13 in the fall of 1945. The program...
A twenty-two page pamphlet put out by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of enticing business owners to locate their businesses in Nashville. Content includes statistics on population, economy, business, transportation, taxes, cost...
A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...