A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about graduates in the beauty culture school in Columbia, Tennessee. The caption reads: “Columbia, Tenn., March 1 (Spl.) Students of the NYA girls school here, which reopened at the historic...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ursula Greene, conducted on 12 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Greene discusses working as a dressmaker in Columbia, Tennessee. The...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ursula Greene, conducted on 12 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Greene discusses her job making hats at age nineteen in Columbia,...
A stock certificate of the antebellum period issued to William Harrison, Sr. certifying capital stock in the Franklin and Columbia Turnpike Company, as witnessed on Dec. 2, 1850. Historically, the turnpikes started with local ownership in the form...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ursula Greene, conducted on 12 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Greene discusses what young people did for fun when she was growing up in...
A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
An undated photograph of the non-extant Nashville & Decatur Railroad depot building, built in 1868. The original immense Gothic Revival structure was located at the corner of Chestnut Street and Fourth Avenue (Cherry Street) and constructed of...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
An elderly Alfred Leland Crabb, balding, with grey hair and glasses. He is wearing a jacket, vest, white shirt, and rust colored tie. Born in Kentucky in 1884, author, educator, and historian Alfred Leland Crabb was educated at Bethel College,...
A postcard of the Draughon Building in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The 1930 Nashville City Directory lists their address at 124-126 8th Avenue North. The early 20th century postcard description reads: "Nashville, Tenn., home office of Draughon's...
A portrait photograph of Elizabeth Burgess Buford, a prominent educator and founder of Buford College, a school for young ladies that was first established in Clarksville, Tennessee in the 1880s and subsequently moved to Nashville in 1901. This...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Lipscomb Cagers star basketball team. The caption reads: “These three boys from the Lipscomb Bisons were selected this week on the all-Mississippi Valley Conference team. They are, left...
Al Jolson, famous singing comedian of the stage and screen, stopped in Nashville “yesterday evening en route by plane to the West Coast for a surprise visit to his son, who celebrates his sixth birthday today. He is shown at the Hermitage Hotel...
Pictured: Dinah Shore with an unidentified man at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in sociology in 1938...
Pictured: Dinah Shore seated, with unidentified students and officials, on stage at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University...
Pictured: Dinah Shore seated with two students and a university official at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a...
Pictured: Dinah Shore standing between two Vanderbilt students, holding a school sweater. The university official is holding a framed document; the event is a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose...
Pictured: Dinah Shore addressing an audience at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in sociology in 1938 and...
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 bound by...