A Nashville Banner news clipping article by staff writer Doug Looney covering an address presented at Fisk University by civil rights activist George Ware, of Atlanta, who spoke to students in anthropology professor P.C. Onwuachi's class on April...
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 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 All Saints Church, located at 4513 Park Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The denomination of the church is Southern Episcopal. The exterior walls are built with stone. An asphalt shingle roof tops the church. The windows are...
Pictured: Hollywood movie star Andrew Vabre “Andy” Devine (1905-1977), an American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. Photo dated January, 1940. Unidentified man, pictured on the right. It was in April, 1940 when the Devine’s made a...
Pictured: Hollywood movie star Andrew Vabre “Andy” Devine (1905-1977), an American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. Photo dated January, 1940. Unidentified man, pictured on the right. It was in April, 1940 when the Devine’s made a...
In 1970, in response to President Nixon’s widening of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, students throughout the nation protested with anti-war demonstrations. Nixon ordered U. S. troops into Cambodia on April 30th, 1970, and protests against the...
This beautiful covered shopping arcade, located between Fourth and Fifth Avenues N, in downtown Nashville, was built in 1903 and was modeled after the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II arcade in Milan, Italy. The City Beautiful Award ribbon was...
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 Arlington United Methodist Church located at 1360 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was started as a Sunday school for neighborhood children in 1873. Later that year children and adults began meeting for...
An autographed hand-signed photograph of Joseph T. Macpherson, a Metropolitan Opera Company bass-baritone, from Amqui, Tennessee. This photograph is inscribed to his Nashville voice teacher Signor G. S. de Luca with the notation: "To Signor G. S....
11; East; 19; 20.0x40.0; 281; I; 07/01/1844; Originally the lot sold bordered / on Central Ave, but in April, 1846 Mr. Burton changed the lot to this lot on Oak Ave.; Burton, Chas. 1826-1856; Burton, Fannie M. 1864-65; Burton, Fannie McG....
Pictured: “Crowds wandered through the regimental area during the entire afternoon, and like the one shown above, they milled about, inspecting [?], mess halls, day rooms, and supply stores at will.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from...
Pictured: “Among the soldiers marching past the admiring crowd was Sergt. Dixon Johnson, Headquarters, Second Battalion, third from left in the line of march shown. Sergeant Johnson is a reporter for The Banner who is on leave of absence to...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “Privates Arthur Young and Joseph Matheney, both of Cookeville, Battery C., showed the interested spectators how one of the 155-mm howitzers would be loaded and fired in actual combat.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from family...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “’Big Boy Sarg,’ a two-year-old Great Dane, the mascot of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, condescended to look over the proceedings of the day accompanied by, left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and...
Pictured: “… the Fire Direction Center, demonstrated by Headquarters Battery, First Battalion, Sergt. Leo Britt is shown explaining the working of a rangefinder to his mother, Mrs. L. J. Britt (left), and his fiancée, Miss Louise Harris. All...