A protection order granted to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Head-Quarters District of Nashville, Provost Marshal's Office on April 25, 1864. The document cites protection granted for "farm, timber, forage, stock,...
A program for the Nashville Community Playhouse's sixty-sixth production, Dinner at Eight by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, and directed by Raymond Johnson. The production ran from October 8 through October 13 in the fall of 1945. The program...
A copy photograph of Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue)...
A copy photograph of an 1890's gymnastics class of young female students at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. William Mallison and Mrs. George Frazier) on the gym...
A postcard of Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, a prestigious school for girls founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, a Presbyterian Minister and his wife, Eliza Hudson Ward. The school was located at 15 South Spruce Street (Eighth Avenue) in...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about the operetta presented by du Pont students. The text reads: “The ‘Fanfare’ chorus pictured above participated in a du Pont High School operetta entitled ‘Hollywood Bound,’...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “An attractive annual entertainment was the outdoor play given by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Shillinglaw on the lawns of their home in Belle Meade. About 250 invited guests enjoyed the play, a dance...
A photograph of the Male Quartet of the Fisk Jubilee Singers performing at Peabody College, July 26, 1948. Directed by 20-year veteran Mrs. James A. Myers, the group had recently completed their first tour of Latin America and the Caribbean,...