The Honorary Citizenship of Nashville for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, presented by Mayor Ben West on January 13th, 1958. Two unidentified men are pictured on the right. She was named an honorary citizen by Mayor Ben West on January 13th, 1958. Forms...
Charles M. Morris appeared before the Circuit Court Clerk to declare his intention to become a citizen of the Confederate States of America and to renounce forever all allegiance to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America.
A photograph of Z. Alexander Looby at the city jail, Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Looby, a local lawyer had addressed an American Veteran's Committee public meeting at Bethlehem Center on November 1, 1950. This photograph appeared in the Nashville...
The Honorary Citizenship of Nashville for Walter J. Bitterlich, by Mayor Ben West on October 12th, 1960. Bitterlich, a renown Austrian forester, who invented the relascope, was born in 1908 in Reutte, Tirol, Austria. He descended from several...
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland was met at the airport by the “Red Carpet Club” of Nashville and made Honorary Citizen and presented key to the city on July 12th, 1961. Robert “Bob” Briscoe was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served...
An original will of Matilda C. Alloway, dated May 26th, 1900, a citizen of Franklin County, Tennessee, “formerly of New York City.” Illustrates the first page of the document. Alloway’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County...
Pictured: Nashville civic leader, businessman, and banker James Carroll “J. C.” Napier. This renown African American was one of the founders of Citizens Bank, where he served as cashier without pay until his death in 1940. This successful...
Pictured: Nashville civic leader, businessman, and banker James Carroll “J. C.” Napier. This renown African American was one of the founders of Citizens Bank, where he served as cashier without pay until his death in 1940. This successful...
Pictured: “Scrap literally rolls in:” A few minutes after the Highland Heights Junior High School was entered in the Banner scrap contest by Principal James C. Armistead, “Colonel” Dewey Russell (second from left) of the school’s Junior...