An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Janet Frey, conducted on 18 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Esi Arthur at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
Eliza Tannehill in late middle age, wearing a bonnet tied in a bow at the neck and a dark dress with a large collar. She is seated on a red chair. Eliza Dewees Tannehill was born in 1789 in Kentucky and died in 1843 in Nashville. She married...
Wilkins Tannehill in his later years, with a full head of grey hair, seated on a red chair and wearing a burgundy and gold Masonic stole. Wilkins Tannehill was born in 1787 in Pennsylvania and died in 1858 in Nashville. He was a merchant, banker,...
A carte-de-visite studio portrait of William A. Eichbaum. Eichbaum was born in 1787 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of German immigrants. He immigrated to the United States around 1820, and came to Nashville, Tennessee around 1821. He married Catherine...
A photograph of the tombstone of William Driver in Nashville City Cemetery, 2000. Driver is credited with nicknaming the American flag "Old Glory." A master mariner, on an 1831 voyage to the South Pacific aboard the 110-ton whaler Charles Doggett,...
A photograph of water rushing around a mailbox in Bellevue during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of the B & W Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue North, Nashville Tennessee. The cafeteria was started by Fred R. Webber, Sr. around 1930. Sixth Avenue was a business hub in the late 1930s and 1940s. Thousands of workers came to the cafeteria...
A photograph of New Hall Intermediaries, an insurance office, located at 1230 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was constructed in 1873 by Morton Howell after he purchased the lot on Market Street (now Second Avenue). ...
The corner of Deaderick Street and the Public Square was home to Gilbert's Clothing Store for around fifty years. In 1956, Friedman's Loan Company moved into the vacated building from their longtime location further up Deaderick Street. 35 mm
According to the survey, this is a photograph of Progressive Sunrise Baptist Church located at 530 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The original church structure was built around 1938 on the corner of Berry and Meridian Streets, facing...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon pertains to the growth of the Federal bureaucracy. The cartoon shows a man with tree pruners in...
A photograph of Saint Ann's Catholic Church located at 5101 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The parish was founded in 1917 as Saint Peter's Catholic Mission. In these early days the congregation met once a month for mass in an already...
A photograph of Shelby Avenue Church of Christ located at 1700 Shelby Avenue in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the original building was erected in 1933, while the congregation was organized...
A photograph of Shiloh Baptist Church located at 1117 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was erected in the late 1940s, while the congregation was organized around 1902. The original site of the church was at Rolling Mill...
A photograph of West Nashville United Methodist Church located at 4710 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was organized as the West Side Mission around 1880. Their first chapel was built under the name of Clifton Methodist...
A postcard of Church Street at the corner of Seventh Avenue looking east in downtown Nashville around 1918. This corner was one of the busiest corners in the retail section of Nashville during the time, with close proximity to all the theatres and...
Mr. Gregg, middle-aged, with grey hair and full grey beard. His clothing is dark and he may be seated. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in...
Mrs. Gregg, middle-aged, with dark hair and brown eyes. She is seated and is wearing a dark dress. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in the...
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 view of the architectural elements of the gable and window design of the Hamilton Parks residence, located at 1706 West End Avenue, in Nashville, Tennessee. This architectural structure is non-extant, having been demolished circa the 1960's. It...