Mr. Gregg, middle-aged, with grey hair and full grey beard. His clothing is dark and he may be seated. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in...
Mrs. Adeline Sanders Mosely Battle in middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair, light blue eyes, and wearing a dark dress. At her neck she is wearing a miniature of her husband, Col. Joel A. Battle, who served as a colonel in the Twentieth Tennessee...
Mrs. Gregg, middle-aged, with dark hair and brown eyes. She is seated and is wearing a dark dress. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in the...
On March 10, 1887, the first permanent house of worship for Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church was dedicated at 908 Cedar Street. The church was first conceived by Reverend R. T. Huffman and a number of his followers. Succeeding Reverend Huffman...
One page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The fruit...
Opened on Thanksgiving Eve of 1953 and displayed yearly during the Christmas season, the nativity scene at Centennial Park was a gift to the city of Nashville given by Fred Harvey. It was created by sculptor Guido Rabacini and executed by the...
Photograph of a snow scene at a German airstrip near Gosselies, Belgium, that had been taken over by Americans during the Second World War. American GI's lived in the tent on the right with only a heater stove to keep warm. The camouflage nets...
Photograph of Marine 4.5 rocket crew in action during Operation Punchbowl near the Hwachon Reservoir in North Korea during August 1951. Scene shows smoke, sparks, and flame from launched rocket, as well as seven Marines squatting and standing next...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, most with their backs towards the camera, gathered around a kneeling camel. One soldier appears to be mounting or dismounting the camel, assisted by a man in a turban. Morris Levine is at far right. Morris Levine...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, reading from the Torah at a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) service in Karachi, India during World War II. In 1943 (Hebrew year 5704), the holiday began at sundown on Wednesday, September 29 and continued through...
Photograph of unidentified African-American military band during World War II, probably taken at or near Karachi Air Base in India (now in Pakistan). Photograph probably taken by Morris Levine. Morris Levine was born on Dec. 8, 1917 in Nashville,...
Pictured: “ Wrought iron gates on way to scrap pile: these picturesque iron gates and another pair just like them, located on the old Keith estate on Harding Road, now owned by Abe Olshine, will shortly be made into less ornate but more emphatic...
Pictured: “A typical schoolyard in Tennessee today: symbolic of the all-out activity by the school children of Nashville, Davidson County, and Tennessee in cooperation with official Scrap Day throughout the State, is this huge scrap pile at Jere...
Pictured: “Antioch Elementary School offers big competition: students at the Antioch Elementary School aim to ‘give the other schools a run for their scrap.’ Pictured above is one day’s collection, evidence of Antioch’s intensive drive. ...
Pictured: “Antioch High School ‘Scrap’ for Victory: approximately 30 tons of scrap metal have already been piled up at Antioch High School by its 200 students under the direction of the Future Farmers Club and M. D. Capps sponsor. The area...
Pictured: “Assumption School aids county scrap drive: students at the Assumption School, 1227 Seventh Avenue, North, recent entry in the Banner scrap contest, are hard at work to win one of the War Bond prizes being offered. A group of the...
Pictured: “At Triune School … students and their teacher were throwing scrap on the heap. They were Lewis Cothran, captain; Mrs. J. H. Windrow, teacher; Lucie Marlin, Doris Ann Rowlett, captain; Mrs. G. V. Arnold and Harvey Powers, captain.”...
Pictured: “Bottling industry aids scrap collection: a fleet of trucks from the Seven-Up Bottling Company … devoted their entire day to the collection of scrap metal from local schools entered in the Banner drive, as did other local bottling...
Pictured: “Caldwell youngsters observe ‘scrap day in schools:’ equipped with a huckster wagon (right) belonging to one of the pupils, the students of Caldwell School today turned out one and all to get in the scrap of the neighborhood. ...
Pictured: “Cameron High School aids scrap drive: students at Cameron High School, 1028 First Avenue, South, have piled up a large scrap heap on the school yard in their patriotic cooperation with the current salvage drive. L. W. Beasley serves...