The City of Nashville Fire Department video, entitled "Think, A False Alarm May Cost a Life", was produced circa 1955. The Fire Department created this video to educate the public about what occurs when a fire alarm is pulled. The film begins...
A view of the construction of the Sparkman Street Bridge, later renamed Shelby Street Bridge, built along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville. The original official name of the bridge was the Broadway Bridge. The bridge was completed in...
Martin MB-2 Bomber at Blackwood Field in 1924. Blackwood Field was the first home of the 105th Aero Squadron stationed in Nashville. The 105th, originally named the First Squadron, Tennessee National Guard,used this field until 1927.
A photograph of Grace McKinley escorting her daughter Linda Gail McKinley (second girl) and a friend to Fehr Elementary School, corner of Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Mrs. McKinley walks through an irate...
A photograph of workmen installing a 75,000-watt bulb on the roof of the Electric Center Building, Nashville, Tennessee, for a four-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of TVA electric power in Nashville and the diamond jubilee of electric...
A photograph of an orange and black poster saying "Don't be a Heel, mind your traffic manners", being put up on a utility pole by Traffic Inspector Hubert O. Kemp (right foreground) and (left to right) Traffic Lt. Braxton Duke, Randolph Tucker, a...
A photograph of student nurses at Nashville's General Hospital attending babies in the nursery. Student nurses were responsible for many duties including caring for newborns, surgical nursing, and working in the diet kitchen and sometimes even...
A photograph of irate segregationists exchanging words with supporters of desegregation at Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Police officers escorted African American students into the school, marking the first day of...
A photograph of McKendree Methodist Church at 523 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1930s. The church was named for Bishop William McKendree, the first American bishop. This is the fourth McKendree Methodist Church building to occupy this...
Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, circa 1934 sitting in the back seat of an open car. Cordell Hull was born in Pickett County Tennessee. He became a lawyer and had an illustrious career in which he...
A photograph of the men of Engine Company 11 (located at 1204 Jefferson Street) standing in front of their fire hall honoring their leader, Captain Robert Campbell (holding award), who was retiring after being on the company roster 31 years as...
Photograph of Governor Frank Clement and his oldest son Robert en route from the Tennessee State Capitol to a platform in front of the War Memorial Auditorium where he was administered the oath of office, becoming the first four-year-term Governor...
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...
Members of the 117th Infantry, Tennessee National Guard parade past spectators on Legislative Plaza, Nashville, 29 September 1936, as part of the 30th Division reunion. One of the onlookers in foreground holds a large American flag on a flagpole....
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 the Al Menah Temple Shriners waving goodbye from the back of a train leaving Union Station in Nashville, Tennessee to attend the annual Southeastern Shrine Convention in Memphis, Tennessee where they stayed at the Peabody Hotel. The...
A photograph of the Sam Davis Hotel being imploded on 16 February 1985. It was located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. In about 15 seconds the explosives sent the 56-year-old hotel down into its...
A photograph of the Vine Street Temple (Congregation Ohabai Shalom) which was located at 136 Seventh Avenue North (Vine Street became Seventh Avenue in 1904), Nashville, Tennessee. The Byzantine style building had nine domes and was dedicated on 27...
A photograph of the Noel Hotel located at 200 Fourth Avenue North and corner of Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, during construction. The property had been in the Noel family since 1854, at which time a huge spring flowed, furnishing most of...
A photograph of the U.S.S. Nashville (LPD-13), 1969, as viewed off the starboard quarter. It is an Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD) of the Austin-class, designed to embark, transport, and land elements of a landing force by sea or air during...