An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nell Barnes, conducted on 7 August 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Barnes discusses attending theatrical and musical performance at venues such at...
An original will of Selah Atkinson, dated October 1st, 1816. Illustrates the first page of the document. Atkinson’s will was recorded in “book No. 7, page 100, on November 22nd, 1816, Davidson County Court. Forms part of Record Group 16,...
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 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...
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 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...
Photograph of Cornelia Fort wearing pilot's coveralls, flying helmet, and goggles perched on top of her head, standing next to and leaning against the wing of a PT-19 training airplane in 1942. Fort was a young Nashville debutante who became a...
A photograph of the F.W. Greenhalge Apothecary at 7 Lafayette Street in Nashville, Tennessee. Taken in 1872, this photograph shows men and some children standing outside the storefront of the retail druggist shop. Six women look out to the street...
A photograph of a woman seated at a kiosk inside an unidentified building in Nashville, selling Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds. A large Minute Man poster encouraging people to buy bonds is to the left, and several women and a man are lined up to...
A photograph of six World War I soldiers standing in front of a tent in the railroad gulch, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1918. Forms part of the Nashville Room Historic Photographs Collection. 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
A photograph of The Confederate Soldiers Home, on the grounds of The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson. The home opened on 12 May 1892 and provided shelter, comfort and medical attention to almost 700 veterans during its 41 years of...
An exterior view showing the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1916. This branch library opened at the southeast corner of Twelfth Avenue North and Hynes Street on February 10, 1916. It was among the four...
John Berrien Lindsley in late middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair and full beard and mustache, wearing a grey suit. Nineteenth-century Nashville educator, physician, minister, and author John Berrien Lindsley was born in New Jersey in 1822. His...
A photograph of the 1950 Fannie Battle Social Workers Carol Chairman, Mrs. John Dubuisson (pictured seated at table), photographed at the annual Christmas tea with (from left) Mrs. Alvin Beaman and Mrs. R.Y. Thorpe and Mrs. James V. Blevins,...
A circa 1996 photograph of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, the handsome old estate of "Old Hickory," the seventh President of the United States. Andrew Jackson died in 1845 at the Hermitage reaching the age of 77. His burial was...
A photograph of Printer's Alley, located between Church and Union Streets and Third and Fourth Avenues, in Nashville, Tennessee, as it appeared circa September 1973. Pictured are some of the popular nightlife places in the alley: The Brass Rail...
A photograph of Miss Frances Fossick, Miss Polly Mudge and Mrs. Eleanor Dubuisson Fossick performing "The Littlest Angel" at the Fannie Battle Social Workers' Christmas Tea hosted at the home of Mrs. Tony Sudekum. This photograph illustrated the...
A photograph of Mrs. Ned Lentz, publicity chairman for the Fannie Battle Carolers, and Mrs. David Huggins, Jr. seen at the Nashville Banner newspaper building in 1951 during their publicity preparations for the Fannie Battle Social Workers' annual...
A brochure commemorating the beginning of the second decade of the Nashville Community Playhouse. It contains a brief history of theatre in Nashville, starting with mentions of the Stagecrafters group and the Little Theatre of Nashville, moving...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...