A twenty-two page pamphlet put out by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of enticing business owners to locate their businesses in Nashville. Content includes statistics on population, economy, business, transportation, taxes, cost...
An informational pamphlet put out by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce urging manufacturers to consider locating their future plants in Nashville, Tennessee. Content includes maps showing Nashville's central location, an explanation of available...
A postcard of the Union Bank and Trust Company building, located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee at 225 Third Avenue, North. The bank was organized circa the 1880s. Leslie Cheek was elected president circa 1909, succeeding Edgar Jones. In 1911 the...
A postcard of the Fourth and First National Bank, Nashville Trust Company, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1928. The verso of the postcard quotes "over sixty million dollars" in "resources." This bank was located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee at the...
A photograph of the new air service being demonstrated at the Nashville Airport, Nashville, Tennessee. The following caption accompanied this photograph in the Nashville Banner newspaper on February 3, 1936: "Twenty-one domestic and an...
A photograph of the Eastern Air Lines “Golden Falcon Prop-Jet Electra” at Nashville’s airport. This prop-jet airliner was built by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and was powered by four 3750 hp General Motors Allison prop-jet engines,...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940). It cites that “A group from Division Four of the Commercial-Industrial committee of the Red Cross are shown above. Left to right, seated, are Charles L. Cornelius, Balie Gross and Ruben Seay;...
Mayor Ben West, with Mr. Ogden and Mr. Borum and the new Constellation plane model of Eastern Airlines, circa 1953. The first Constellation flight at the Nashville Airport was on April 26th, 1953. The airliner was manufactured by Lockheed and...
Mayor Ben West and the first flight of the Eastern Airlines Constellation airliner at the Nashville Airport on April 26th, 1953. The aircraft was manufactured by Lockheed and represented the ultimate in airline performance and luxury during the...
A celebration at the Nashville Airport in front of the American Airlines Astojet. Pictured left to right are: Judge Beverly Briley, unidentified man, and Mayor Ben West, celebrating the jet flight out of Nashville on June 11th, 1961. The signage...
A 1938 aerial view of Nashville’s McConnell Field in Nashville, Tennessee. This field began operation circa 1927 and was named McConnell Field in honor of Lieutenant Brower McConnell who had died that year in an air crash while at Langley Field,...
A 1938 aerial view of Nashville’s McConnell Field in Nashville, Tennessee. This field began operation circa 1927 and was named McConnell Field in honor of Lieutenant Brower McConnell who had died that year in an air crash while at Langley Field,...