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...
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...
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: “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...