Nashville Public Library Digital Collections

- Oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, 1981 February , excerpt 01
- 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...
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- The Stage Coach of General Andrew Jackson, between 1930 and 1945
- A postcard of the Stage Coach of General Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States. The vehicle is pictured next to the old Smoke House at The Hermitage, home of President Jackson, located 12 miles east of downtown Nashville. The...
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- Meet us at the ball game, as in the Gay Nineties, from the Nashville Times, 1940
- A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Gerst Beer. The picture shows a couple dressed in Gay Nineties (1890s) clothes, riding in a horse drawn carriage. The banner draped upon a horse...
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- Miss Martha Ezzell and John Farris, from the Nashville Times, 1940
- A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), depicting Miss Martha Ezzell and John Farris taking a ride in a horse-drawn carriage alongside a snow-filled landscape. Forms part of the Nashville Times newspaper collection. 1 digital photo.
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- Exterior front elevation view of the Bonnie Brae residence with a porte-cochere, Nashville, Tennessee, n.d.
- A porte-cochere is a “coach gate,” a porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which a horse and carriage (or motor vehicle) can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather....
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- Exterior view of porte cochere of the Bonnie Brae residence, Nashville, Tennessee, n.d.
- A porte-cochere is a “coach gate,” a porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which a horse and carriage (or motor vehicle) can pass in order for the occupants to alight under cover, protected from the weather....
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- Photograph of the Washington Manufacturing Company building, after the fire, circa 1985
- A photograph of the Washington Manufacturing Company building at 200 and 210 Second Avenue North, after it was gutted by fire on October 12, 1985. The building occupied two addresses and may at one time have been two separate buildings. At the time...
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