This program from the 1923 Annual Banquet of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, held at the Centennial Club, boasts a number of distinguished guests, including architect and past president Henry C. Hibbs. Henry C. Hibbs...
A photograph of Mrs. Naff standing in front of the ticket booth at the Ryman Auditorium. The building is located at 116 5th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The Ryman Auditorium opened as a tabernacle in 1892, and over the years its venue...
A sepia-toned photograph of the Nashville Iron, Steel & Charcoal Company in 1887. Men with horses and buggies appear in the foreground, while the industrial plant soars behind them. Since this company does not appear in the Nashville city...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville businessman, Thomas Charles ("T.C.") Jones, conducted on 10 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Jones discusses success playing softball and how it...
Excerpts from an interview with Madison businessman Douglas G. Odom, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In the excerpts, Odom discusses his family's business, Odom's...
Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
Sixteen excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted on 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In these clips...
Excerpts from an interview with Betty Nixon on 16 June 2004 by Kathryn G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Nixon discusses childhood experiences that led to her awareness of segregation and...
Excerpts from an interview with Alice Smith Risby conducted on 05 April 2007 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Risby, wife of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., discusses her daughter's...
An oral history interview with Salynn McCollum, conducted on 29 June 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Salynn McCollum was one of the Nashville students who participated in the...
Excerpts from an interview with architectural historian John Kiser, conducted on 10 April 1978 by Deborah Cooney as part of the Historic Nashville Inc. Oral History project. The interview took place in John Kisers' historic home, the Hays-Kiser...
An oral history interview with Dr. Charles Kimbrough, conducted on September 14, 2005 by Gwen Smith as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Dr. Kimbrough marked the 100th interview conducted for the Civil...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights activists Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel and Ernest Rip Patton conducted on 17 January 2003 by Kathryn G. Bennett. In the excerpts Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discusses his decision as a young man...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with retired Nashville Fire Department chief Henry D. Demonbreun, conducted on 5 March 1980 by Diane Cooper as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Demonbreun...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader E.W. "Bud" Wendell, conducted on 22 June 2007 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...