The 1955 Central High School baseball team and starting lineup. The school was established in 1917 at 161 Rains Avenue at the corner of Wedgewood Avenue. Central High School was closed in 1971 and the building demolished in 1973. 8 x 10 in.
A photograph of six young women sitting on the ground in front of Nashville's Parthenon at Centennial Park, West End Avenue at 25th Avenue North, which is an exact replica of Athen's Parthenon. This photograph appeared in the Nashville Banner...
A photograph of a class in modern dance at Ward-Belmont College located at 1900 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. Pictured are Claudia Whitson (top center), (down left to right) Jane Bagley, Yvette Franz, Obduha Rafferty, Betty Lou Gibson,...
Pamphlet written by Anna Holden in cooperation with the Nashville Congress of Racial Equality group, 1958. The pamphlet tells how a CORE group helped parents and children, despite the violence of segregationist mobs, to desegregate public schools...
A group photograph of volunteers from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance during a cleanup in Bellevue with the Harpeth River Watershed Association after the May 2010 flood. The group collected debris from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old...
A view of Nashville landscape and roads as seen from Reservoir Hill, April 8, 1928. The reservoir structure itself is not pictured in this view, though some of the upper hill area is visible. The reservoir, located at 1401 8th Avenue South, was...
A photograph of a volunteer with a canoe full of debris from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old Hickory Boulevard near the Carmike Bellevue 8 Cinemas, after the May 2010 flood. The volunteers were part of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance group...
A photograph of A. Z. Kelley and some of the legal team from Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville in September 1955. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court issued Brown II, ordering that schools to desegregate...
28; Southeast; 42; 8.0x36.0; * Can't find the deed, but according to the Platt book this lot is owned by J. Alley.; Alley 1856 (infant of); Alley F. 1813-1845; H.C.P. (Patton, Mrs. H.C. 1833-1874); J.M.P. (James Patton 1821-1900)
28; Southeast; 42; 8.0x36.0; * Can't find the deed, but according to the Platt book this lot is owned by J. Alley.; Alley 1856 (infant of); Alley F. 1813-1845; H.C.P. (Patton, Mrs. H.C. 1833-1874); J.M.P. (James Patton 1821-1900)
The cover of a multi-page annual report for the Third National Bank in Nashville, Tennessee. This report covers thirty years, from 1927 through 1957. The artwork on the cover was painted by Nashville artist John Furlow and originally used for a...
A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...
A photograph of Mrs. Francis X. O'Donnell, theater chairman, and Mrs. George Harmon, downtown chairman, of the Fannie Battle Christmas Carol Committee of 1951, seen contacting theater manager Floyd Rice to arrange for carol singing at local...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the Tennessee...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...
A photograph of Avon N. Williams, Jr., being congratulated by his wife, Marie Bontemps, and supporters after his successful bid to become the first African American senator in Tennessee since Reconstruction. He ran for state senator from the 19th...
A photograph of Mrs. Wilma Folwell, librarian, and the student library assistants on the steps of Bailey School in 1954. Bailey School, built in 1929, is located in the Eastwood neighborhood of East Nashville. The student library assistants were...
A photograph of one of the Nashville Public Library's Booketerias, located in a Logan supermarket in Belle Meade, Tennessee, circa March 1953. Dr. Robert Alvarez, Director, is pictured assisting a patron with method of taking out a book from the...