A color postcard of the Golf and Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The first nine holes were completed by the summer of 1901. Fields were cut by mule-drawn mowers to prepare for the holes. The first clubhouse, as seen on the postcard, was...
A photograph of Calvary Baptist Church located at 101 Bowling Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built sometime in the 1940s. According to the cornerstone the congregation was founded in 1906. The exterior walls of this church are red...
M. Werthan and Company was founded by Meier Werthan in 1895. He was originally in the business of buying, reconditioning, and selling used burlap bags. By 1913, the business expanded into the manufacture of new textile bags, made of cotton fabric...
A photograph of the train shed at Nashville's Union Station at Broadway and 10th Avenue just to the west of the downtown area, circa 1936. Union Station is a former railroad terminal opened in 1900 to serve the passenger operations of the eight...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the food stamp plan in Davidson County, Tennessee. The caption is: “When the food stamp plan began operation at 9 a.m. Thursday, the clerks in charge were busy from the first …....
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the guests of Miss Martha Dobson. The caption reads: “Popular visitors in Nashville for the festivities that marked the opening week of the New Year were Miss Virginia Moseley of Bowling...
A photograph of Christ Church Cathedral located at 900 Broadway Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. Christ Church Cathedral serves as the Cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Originally built in 1830 on the corner of Sixth Avenue and...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...