An excerpt from an oral history interview with Walker Whiteside, conducted on 3 September 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Collection. Whiteside discusses taking a date to see the opera Il Trovatore,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Gilbert S. Fox, conducted on 1 March 2004 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Fox, an Executive Officer on board LSM-80 in the US Navy during...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with the Nashville Public Library's Wishing Chair Productions staff Brian Hull and Pete Carden, conducted on 14 November 2007 by Mary Bailey at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. As a Marine photographer, O'Donnell was assigned to overseas...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville, Tenn., veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his separation from service as a Marine photographer in...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Carol Warren conducted on November 03, 2011 by Bettina Warkentin as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Carol Warren is a musician whose Franklin home flooded during the May 2010 flood while...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Walker Whiteside, conducted on 3 September 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Collection. Whiteside discusses popular places to take a date in Nashville...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel served from 1943 until 1946 as a Gray Lady at...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his separation from service as a Marine photographer in...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel served from 1943 until 1946 as a Gray Lady at...
In this ca. 1955 shot, Chandler's Shoes occupied the northwest corner of the Bennie Dillon Building located on Church Street. Pedestrians fill the intersection as traffic signals bring all vehicles to a four-way stop. 35 mm
A photograph of the exposed interior walls of the Knickerbocker Theater in Nashville, Tennessee featuring birds-of-paradise frescoes on the walls (pictured in this photograph). The Knickerbocker was originally a magnificent movie house, located in...
On Monday night, September 20, 1965, fire broke out at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. The fire destroyed the Woman's Building and the Grandstands. 35 mm
The building of the Eighth Avenue South Reservoir, located on Kirkpatrick Hill, was begun in 1887 and was completed in 1889. With an outside wall height of 33.75 feet and a perimeter at the top of the outside wall running 1,746 feet, the reservoir...
The Arcade, Nashville's first mall, stretches from Fourth Avenue North to Fifth Avenue North. It opened in May 1903 and was modeled after the Centennial Arcade in Milan, Italy. 35 mm
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon is a caricature of the Democratic presidential balloting and supporters in the national election...