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- Dinah Shore at Vanderbilt University, 1957 January 23
- 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...
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- Ordinary License
- A person granted a license to keep an Ordinary was obligated to provide wholesome, cleanly lodging and diet for travelers, stabling and fodder for their horses, and "shall not permit unlawful gaming, nor on the Sabbath day suffer any person to...
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- Personal Property Deed, Bill of Sale
- Deed for transfer of slave, Sarah, age five years for the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars. 8 x 10 in.
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- Oath of Office for Mayor Beverly Briley, April 1, 1963
- Oath of Office for Mayor Beverly Briley, the first mayor of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Metro Government was the first consolidation of a city and a county government in the nation. 8 x 10 in.
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- Chancery Sale Handbill
- Advertisement for the sale of "104 Acres of Land in Davidson County, about twelve miles from Nashville, one mile from the Murfreesborough Turnpike, upon which Seaborn Gay now lives." 8 x 10 in.
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- Marriage Bond 1789
- The marriage bond was a guarantee or promise that the couple had a legal right to be married. That is to say, the couple was of age, that neither was already married and that there was no other reason why they could not be married according to law....
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- Merchant Licenses
- Grocers H.G. Hill and Company were among the merchant licenses recorded April 7, 1897. 11 x 17 in.
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- City Aldermen Vote on Electric Street Lights
- Aldermen pass electric street light bill by a vote of ten to four. The vote approves a contract with Brush Electric Light Company for two hundred lights.
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- Minutes of the First Meeting of the Board of Magazine Censors
- Board met to establish policies and procedures. Jacob Doyle was elected Chairman and Hattye Bubis, Secretary. 11 x 17 in.
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- Pearl High School Alumni Association
- Announcement of a dance to be held at the close of commencement for the class of 1919. Established in 1883 as a grammar school, Pearl became a high school in the 1897 - 1898 school year. In 1919, Pearl High School was located on 16th Avenue No. at...
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- Declaration of Intention to Become a Naturalized Citizen
- Charles M. Morris appeared before the Circuit Court Clerk to declare his intention to become a citizen of the Confederate States of America and to renounce forever all allegiance to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America.
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- Marriage License of Preston Taylor and Georgia Gordon
- Preston Taylor, a businessman and minister, was one of Nashville's most powerful black leaders. His wife, Georgia Gordon Taylor, was one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. Georgia was among the first group of singers to tour Europe when the...
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- Nashville Board of Education Minutes
- On the 5th day of November, 1854, the Nashville Board of Education elected Joshua F. Pearl as superintendent of the public schools. 11 x 14 in.
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- On the subject of national defense, circa 1955
- An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. A cartoon portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United...
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