An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville dentist Walter Morgan, conducted on 16 September 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Morgan describes the buildings, the lights, the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History . Creighton discusses how the idea for...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Le Sueur, conducted on 11 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Le Sueur explains that the lake at the Centennial impressed her and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Margaret Wright, conducted on 30 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Wright describes the midway and Streets of Cairo sections at the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ophelia and Walter Stokes, conducted on 29 August 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Mr. and Mrs. Stokes describe the Shooting the Chute ride...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Margaret Thompson, conducted on 10 July 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Thompson describes visiting the Vanity Fair and Streets of Cairo...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Margaret Wright, conducted on 30 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Wright describes President and First Lady McKinley's visit to the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville and Florida businessman and real estate broker Adam G. Adams, III, conducted on 4 October 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Adams...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Margaret Wright, conducted on 30 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Wright describes the music, fireworks, lake, and gondoliers at the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Le Sueur, conducted on 11 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Le Sueur compares the Centennial with Opryland. The complete interview is...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Jeanette Acklen Noel, conducted on 25 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Noel describes her overall impression of the Centennial. The...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Margaret Wright, conducted on 30 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Wright describes the different areas and exhibits at the Centennial,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with retirement home residents Douglas Ginn, Lillian McGlothlin, Ruth McNish, and Lera Moore, conducted on 9 July 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. In...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History . Creighton discusses the Women's Building,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History. Creighton discusses how the builders of...
A postcard of the Tulane Hotel, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old Nicholson House (a fancy boarding house...
A photograph of the Tulane Hotel as it appeared circa the 1930s, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...
A postcard view of row boating on Lake Watauga, Centennial Park. This man-made lake was built for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in Nashville in 1897 to celebrate Tennessee's one-hundredth anniversary of statehood. During the...
A photograph of the Children's Building at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1897. This non-extant structure was built for the celebration of Tennessee's 100th year of statehood that opened May 1,...
A photograph of the Commerce Building (pictured on left) and Auditorium (pictured on right) at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, circa 1897. These non-extant structures were built for the celebration of Tennessee's 100th year...