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 captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a banquet related to Spanish-American War veterans. The caption reads: “As a preliminary event for today’s reunion of Spanish-American War veterans, the above group of Spanish Daughters...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross...
Excerpts from an interview with Matthew Kennedy conducted on 10 September 2008 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. Matthew Kennedy discussing coming to Fisk University after graduating from Julliard; his earliest...
A 1956 shopping and visitors map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The streets are labeled with address numbers and building names. A straight listing of prominent buildings and stores by category is also included on the lower portion of the...
A scene from the Bond Sales Drive by the Army, Navy, and Civic Clubs, on 6th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with “Street of Flags.” By the end of the war, over 85 million Americans had invested in War Bonds, raising $185.7 billion...