The City of Nashville Fire Department video, entitled "Think, A False Alarm May Cost a Life", was produced circa 1955. The Fire Department created this video to educate the public about what occurs when a fire alarm is pulled. The film begins...
A view of the construction of the Sparkman Street Bridge, later renamed Shelby Street Bridge, built along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville. The original official name of the bridge was the Broadway Bridge. The bridge was completed in...
Martin MB-2 Bomber at Blackwood Field in 1924. Blackwood Field was the first home of the 105th Aero Squadron stationed in Nashville. The 105th, originally named the First Squadron, Tennessee National Guard,used this field until 1927.
A photograph, ca. 1900, of the north end of the City Hall and market place of Nashville, Tennessee, located on the Public Square. The market place area shows vendor wagons and townspeople. The building was razed in 1935, to make way for a new...
Photographic postcard depicting people walking across the frozen Cumberland River at Nashville, Tennessee, January 26, 1940. Several barges and towboats are visible below the Cumberland River Sand Company in East Nashville. Forms part of the...
A photograph of the main hallway of the Carnegie Library of Nashville, circa 1904. The pubic library building was constructed with a $100,000 grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, and the cornerstone was laid on April 27, 1903. Officially...
A photograph of visitors at the entrance to the first Parthenon replica in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee during the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897. The photograph shows the West Pediment and architectural elements of the façade,...
A photograph of the electric streetcar that transported passengers along the Cedar Street (Charlotte Avenue) line in Nashville. The Tennessee State Capitol is shown in the background. A reproduced photographic print from the original. Forms part of...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Capitol and landscaped grounds along the hillside overlooking the city of Nashville, bordered by Charlotte and Sixth Avenue, with the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson on the right. The Greek Revival building was...
This image provides an aerial view of the demolition of the Andrew Jackson Hotel, ca. 1971, to make way for the James K. Polk Office Building, which contains the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and the Tennessee State Museum. Photographed by the...
Harris-Davis and Company, J. L. Turner and Son, and J. S. Reeves and Company were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall and market center,...
A photograph of the tombstone of William Driver in Nashville City Cemetery, 2000. Driver is credited with nicknaming the American flag "Old Glory." A master mariner, on an 1831 voyage to the South Pacific aboard the 110-ton whaler Charles Doggett,...
Photograph of Marine 4.5 rocket crew in action during Operation Punchbowl near the Hwachon Reservoir in North Korea during August 1951. Scene shows smoke, sparks, and flame from launched rocket, as well as seven Marines squatting and standing next...
A studio portrait of Rebecca Landers in Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) uniform, 26 May 1943. An inscription on the front of the photograph to her husband, Corris, reads: "Everlastingly your wife, Rebecca." A few months after this photograph...
A photograph of the United States Post Office on Broadway, between Ninth Avenue South and Tenth Avenue South. It was designed by the Nashville architectural firm of Marr and Holman (Thomas Scott Marr and Joseph W. Holman) and constructed in 1933-34...
A photograph of a terra cotta design on the south side of the Elks Lodge building at 310 6th Avenue North. The building was the home to Lodge no. 72 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks (BPOE) beginning in 1904, serving various...
Based on the English Music Hall song, "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" (1912, by Harry Williams and Jack Judge) which became a favorite and famous marching song of the British Expeditionary Force at the very outbreak of World War I in August, 1914,...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist, during the Vietnam War (1961-1975). This is a caricature of U. S. Vietnam commitments, as shown in the image of a small tattered flag and a man's...
A photograph of Ellen Thomas Caldwell, Milbry Keith Frazer and Ann Maddin Palmer of the Davidson County Division of the National League for Woman's Service, riding on a float in the French Day Parade. The League supported the Allied armies in...
A photograph of The Confederate Soldiers Home, on the grounds of The Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson. The home opened on 12 May 1892 and provided shelter, comfort and medical attention to almost 700 veterans during its 41 years of...