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 discusses traveling to the Centennial on...
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 riding the Shooting the Chute ride...
A photograph of visitors at the entrance to the first Parthenon replica in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee during the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897. The photograph shows the West Pediment and architectural elements of the façade,...
A photograph of the sculpture of the east pediment and metopes of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. The pediment sculpture shows an artists conception of the birth of Athena, who was depicted in Greek myth as having sprung, full grown and in...
A photograph showing two of the Nashville Public Library bookmobiles and drivers in Nashville's Centennial Park, circa 1955. The Parthenon, originally built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, is pictured in the background. The bookmobile...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Dr. W. L. Dudley, a distinguished scientist, lecturer, and head of the Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dudley was born in 1859 in Covington, Kentucky. He earned his...
A postcard showing drawings of the Parthenon and the First American National Bank Building. The Parthenon, located in Centennial Park, is a reproduction of the Greek Athenian Temple. This full scale replica was originally constructed out of wood,...
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...
Construction of the Maxwell House Hotel was not completed when Federal troops seized the building for use as a prison for Confederate soldiers. The cornerstone was laid in August of 1860, and the formal opening was in September of 1869. Isaiah...