An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
A postcard of Fifth Avenue looking north from Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This intersection was one of the busiest retail sections of town during the time. Automobiles line both sides of the street, while pedestrians walk the...
A photograph of a man contemplating gas prices at two local service stations. This photo appeared on the front page of the 8 September 1955 edition of the Nashville Banner. The caption states, "Confusion in the gas war - John W. Thomas scratches...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
A postcard of Capitol Boulevard looking north towards the Tennessee State Capitol sometime between 1916 and 1930. YMCA signage is visible on the left side of the street, while Knickerbocker Theater signage is identifiable on the right side. Cars...
A postcard of the Church Street viaduct right after completion between 1915 and 1930. This structure was built to carry car traffic over the railroad tracks. A new viaduct was built to replace this one in the 1990s. Forms part of the Norton...
A postcard of Union Street looking toward Fifth Avenue in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Businesses line both sides of the street. Identifiable signage includes the Linen Store, Economy Shoe Store and L.H. Brooks, a clothing company. Busy...
A postcard of the Union Bus Terminal located at 517 Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the latter part of the 1930s, this bus terminal exemplified the art deco architecture style of the time period. According to city...
A photograph of E. Gray Smith, Packard dealership, located at 2400 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. E. Gray Smith was a longtime Nashville auto dealer whose father was one of the first local car dealers starting around 1902. In this view of...
A photograph taken on Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee at dusk, circa 1936. According to the annotated note on the verso this is one of two photographs "taken on Church Street at Polk Place about 20 minutes apart at dusk. The date was probably...
A photograph taken on Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee at dusk, circa 1936. According to the annotated note on the verso this is one of two photographs "taken on Church Street at Polk Place about 20 minutes apart at dusk. The date was probably...
A photograph of a large crowd of people viewing Harveys Department Store's nativity scene in Centennial Park. This article appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper with similar photographs on December 3, 1956: "Nashvillians by the thousands took...
A photograph of a residential street in the Hillsboro/Belmont area during the record breaking snow and ice storm of 1951. Bone chilling weather brought sub-zero temperatures to most of Tennessee during a winter storm spanning January 31st through...
A photograph of the interior of Lonnie Haynes’s car which was inundated with water during the May 2010 Nashville flood as he was driving down George E. Horn Road in Bellevue. He escaped from the car and climbed to safety in a tree.
Forms part...
A photograph of Lonnie Haynes’s car which was inundated by water during the May 2010 flood as he was driving down George E. Horn Road in Bellevue. He escaped from the sinking car and climbed to safety in a tree.
Forms part of the Nashville Room...
A photograph of cars piled up at the intersection of Blue Hole Road and Antioch Pike during the May 2010 flood in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of Lonnie Haynes’s damaged car which was inundated by water during the May 2010 Nashville flood as he was driving down George E. Horn Road in Bellevue. He escaped from the car and climbed to safety in a tree.
Forms part of the...
A photograph of cars moved by floodwaters at the Antioch Pike and Blue Hole Road intersection in South Nashville during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
Submerged cars in the Pennington Bend neighborhood during the May 2010 Nashville flood.Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.