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- Saint Cecelia Academy, between 1900 and 1919
- A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...
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- Jersey Farms letter to Henry C. Hibbs, 1939 May 22
- A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
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- Church Street at Eighth Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1943
- A view of Church Street at 8th Avenue N in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1943. The movie marquee sign at the Paramount Theatre displays the “Immortal Sergeant” film title. The 1943 City Directory cites the address for the Paramount...
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- A view of Nashville landscape and roads as seen from Reservoir Hill, 1928 April 08
- A view of Nashville landscape and roads as seen from Reservoir Hill, April 8, 1928. The reservoir structure itself is not pictured in this view, though some of the upper hill area is visible. The reservoir, located at 1401 8th Avenue South, was...
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- Oral history interview with Henry L. Douglass, 1981 November 11, excerpt 05
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass discusses the street cars in...
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- Oral history interview with Henry L. Douglass, 1981 November 11, excerpt 04
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass discusses working as an...
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- Oral history interview with Henry L. Douglass, 1981 November 11, excerpt 10
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass recounts a story about a Barnum...
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- Fire Halls - Eighth Avenue South
- Engine Company # 8, located at 1101 Eighth Avenue South 11 x 14 in.
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- Nashville City Schools, Fall School
- Located on the corner of 8th Avenue South and Chestnut Street, Fall school was named for Philip Slater Fall, a prominent Nashville businessman and member of the Board of Education from 1865-1867. Since the school had no bell, a flag was put out in...
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- Mayor West speaking at the Farmers’ Market, 1954 September
- Mayor Ben West speaking at the Farmers’ Market, September, 1954. Since its inception on the town square in the early 1800’s, the Farmers’ Market has been a vital part of Nashville life. There have been several venues, for example in the...
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- Oral history interview with John H. Arriola, 2007 June 05
- Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
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- Slide Collection - Farmers' Market
- Replacing the Market on the Public Square, the Farmers' Market opened in the late fall of 1954. It was located between Jefferson and Jackson Streets and Sixth and Eighth Avenues North. 35 mm
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- Nashville Business - Spot Tavern and Cartwright's Diner
- Spot Tavern and Cartwright's Diner were located at 111 and 115 8th Avenue North near Broad Street. 3 x 4 in.
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- Slide Collection - Eighth Avenue South Reservoir
- The building of the Eighth Avenue South Reservoir, located on Kirkpatrick Hill, was begun in 1887 and was completed in 1889. With an outside wall height of 33.75 feet and a perimeter at the top of the outside wall running 1,746 feet, the reservoir...
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- Farmers’ Market board and Mayor Briley, 1964 July 26
- The Farmers’ Market board, photographed with Mayor Briley on July 26th, 1964. Pictured from left to right are: E. L. Strasser, Sr., Sam Davis Bell, Sr., Mayor Briley, Joe W. Bush, and James Hester. Since its inception on the town square in the...
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- Nashville Business - Holiday Inn
- The Holiday Inn on James Robertson Parkway at 8th Avenue North opened in January of 1960. The one million dollar, one hundred unit hotel was north of the Tennessee State Capitol building. 3 x 4 in.
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