A piece of commercial advertising correspondence created by Edgar M. Foster, business manager of the Nashville Banner from 1891 to at least 1915. In this letter, Foster urges advertisers to consider placing ads with the Nashville Banner because of...
A pamphlet advertising life insurance for soldiers during World War II. The cover graphic portrays a fatherless family standing with Uncle Sam juxtaposed against a mass gathering of soldiers in the background. The inside pages use persuasive...
A calendar from 1964 advertising Otey's Center, which included a supermarket, launderette, shoe shop, and a realty company. Flem B. Otey headed the Otey Enterprises firm which was comprised of the various operations highlighted on the calendar. ...
An advertising announcement for a performance by Lieut. John Philip Sousa and his band on October 27, 1922, at the Ryman Auditorium, located on Fifth Avenue North in downtown Nashville. Sousa was an American composer and conductor known...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
An inside cover image from a booklet advertising the services of the Marshall & Bruce printing company. The image shows the various storefronts that the company occupied over the early years between 1865 and 1906. In 1905 Marshall and Bruce...
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...
An informational pamphlet put out by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce urging manufacturers to consider locating their future plants in Nashville, Tennessee. Content includes maps showing Nashville's central location, an explanation of available...
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...
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...
A postcard depicting several Nashville landmarks, including the State Penitentiary, the Confederate Monument in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, the Parthenon in Centennial Park, two images of the United States Post Office and Custom House, Union Station,...
A souvenir postcard sending greetings from Nashville, Tennessee. Several attractions are depicted inside the block letters of Nashville. From left to right they are: Sam Davis Monument, War Memorial Building, Memorial Square, the Hermitage,...
A souvenir postcard sending greetings from Nashville, Tennessee. Several attractions are depicted inside the block letters of Nashville. From left to right they are: Sam Davis Monument, War Memorial Building, Memorial Square, the Hermitage,...
A posed photograph of five young girls and one boy looking into a window from the outside at night. This image was used as a promotion for the upcoming Fannie Battle Day Home annual caroling event to raise money for the home. This photograph...
A postcard of The Travel Lodge located on Route No. 1 at the intersection of U.S. 41 and 70 S., nine miles southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This card advertises good restaurants nearby, private tile bathrooms, air cooled rooms, city...
A postcard of the WSM radio tower, advertising "America's tallest radio tower at 878 feet, standing 323 taller than the Washington Monument." The WSM station began in 1925 as the official radio station of the National Life and Accident Insurance...
A postcard of the Hayden and Brown Sanitarium in Nashville, Tennessee. A private sanitarium originally established circa 1906 in East Nashville by Drs. Hayden and Brown, for the treatment of alcohol and drug additions and diseases of the nervous...
Advertisement for Skalowski's Confectionery Parlor, located at 217 Fifth Ave. North in downtown Nashville. Advertisement reads: "America's Handsomest Confectionery Parlor" and promotes the ice cream parlor as "Nashville's Beauty Spot" and "A...
Advertisement for Jack Daniel's Old Time Distillery featuring numerous varieties of Lincoln County sour mash whisky. Some of the products include Jack Daniel's Old No. 7, apple brandy, apricot brandy, peach brandy, and corn whisky. Prices range...
A published photo of Mrs. Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon from the Nashville Times (1940), the head caption reads “Job Advisor.” Mrs. MacGibbon was known as the “Emily Post of Business.” In addition to being an automobile editor, an advertising...