Jesse Clifton Burt, Jr., in middle age, wearing a brown suit and green tie, with his arms crossed. His wedding band and watch are visible. Historian, author, and free-lance writer, Jesse Burt was born in 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Jesse...
A photograph of United Primitive Baptist Church located at 2911 Clifton Road (now Avenue) in Nashville, Tennessee. Now reportedly being used as a duplex home with barbecue smoking equipment in the back, this structure began as St. Phillip's...
A photograph of West Nashville United Methodist Church located at 4710 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was organized as the West Side Mission around 1880. Their first chapel was built under the name of Clifton Methodist...
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...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
A photograph of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church located at 2416 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was founded in 1871 by Rev. Pharoah Benson, a former slave. The first church was built right across the street from the present day...
A photograph of St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church located at 2830 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The building's shallow foundation is slab-on-grade. The exterior walls are made of cinder block. The roof is made of shingles. There...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
Country music singer Roy Acuff, pictured with Mayor Beverly Briley. Roy Claxton Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee in 1903. He was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 and was a...
Two photographs showing an apartment building above the Hooberry’s Book Store at 140 Fifth Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, with the Country Kitchen restaurant, and some vacant spaces. The 1949 City Directory cites the Clifton...