A photograph of an unidentified Tennessee National Guardsman hugging a girl carrying a flower. The soldier is one of 63 members of the 130th Rear Area Operations Center, which returned to the Grubbs-Kyle Training Center at the Smyrna Armory on...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Mary Diane Maynard Ross, conducted on 2 Oct. 2006 by Linda Barnickel as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Ross discusses the difficulty of leaving behind her young...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville, Tenn., veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World...
A pamphlet advertising life insurance for soldiers during World War II. The cover graphic portrays a fatherless family standing with Uncle Sam juxtaposed against a mass gathering of soldiers in the background. The inside pages use persuasive...
A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Marion R. Jenkins and Sharon Y. Parrish, conducted on 15 September 2007 by their sister, Brenda P. Wynn, at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room...
Excerpts from an interview with architectural historian John Kiser, conducted on 10 April 1978 by Deborah Cooney as part of the Historic Nashville Inc. Oral History project. The interview took place in John Kisers' historic home, the Hays-Kiser...
A photograph of West End Synagogue located at 3810 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Constructed in 1950, this synagogue is home to Nashville's second oldest Jewish congregation which was established in 1874 by 20 Jewish families. The...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Angelo Anderson and his daughter Angela Anderson Jones, conducted on 21 Oct. 1986 by John Egerton as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Anderson and Jones discuss Anderson's...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Nora S. Grasser, conducted on 10 October 2007 by her sister Mary Grace Schulz at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
This photograph, published in the Nashville Banner circa the Yuletide season of 1955, relates to a Nashville family's long and meaningful participation in the Christmas carol program of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The caption from an undated...
A photograph of the Rutledge-Baxter House, located at 101 Lea Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This historic building rests on the site of "Rose Hill," the grand antebellum home of Henry and Septima Sexta Rutledge, a young couple who were members of...
A photograph of "women of the Brentwood Methodist
Church who prepared lunch for the group, including Mrs. Milton McArthur, Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. George S. Herbert, Mrs. Ewing Bradford, Mrs. Charles Howell, Sr., who served as chairman, Mrs. Charles...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...
Albert Hadley (1920-2012), a native of Nashville, was a renowned interior designer whose clients included the Vice President Albert Gore family, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Diane Sawyer, and the Astor and Getty families. The Albert Hadley Interior...