A captioned photo published in the Nashville Times (1940), about a pageant in downtown Nashville: “.... Sixth Avenue merchants took to tandem bicycles and carriages this week in their Gay Nineties Revue. A group is shown here promenading down the...
A photograph of Sixty-first Avenue United Methodist Church located at 6018 New York Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church's original site address was 6020 New York Avenue. The foundation is made of concrete blocks, painted white. The...
Advertisement for Skalowski's Confectionery Parlor, located at 217 Fifth Ave. North in downtown Nashville. Advertisement reads: "America's Handsomest Confectionery Parlor" and promotes the ice cream parlor as "Nashville's Beauty Spot" and "A...
A postcard of the Nashville city skyline showing the business district in 1944. Residential homes are pictured in the foreground. Forms part of the Norton Postcard Collection. 1 postcard : col. ; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
A postcard of the Nashville city skyline at night circa 1930. The scene is possibly a view from the Woodland Street Bridge or Jefferson Street Bridge looking toward the Shelby Street Bridge. The state capitol is discernable in the distance. The...
A slave deed bill of sale for the acquisition of three slaves: "a woman named Betty about twenty one years of age, and her two children Louis-Randolph about four years of age, and William Henry about twelve months old." The document states that...
A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...
A slave deed bill of sale, witnessed on April 22, 1848, regarding the transfer of a slave from Robert Glass to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee. The document states that Glass sold to William Harrison, Jr. a "man called Sam...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
A newspaper image of Mike Smith (Elmer Ellsworth Smith), pitcher of the professional baseball team the Nashville Americans. In 1885, the Southern League was formed, and Nashville’s entry into the new league for two seasons was the Nashville...
A photograph of leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaving the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on May 23, 1967. They were attending a trial of a suit...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Nashville children contributing profits from a soft drink stand to provide food to children in Europe, via a Red Cross project. The caption reads: “There’ll be little drinking of the...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, reading letters in front of their tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898.
The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the...
An 1898 photograph of some of the members of Co. F. of 1st Tennessee Volunteers when in line getting their dinner at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May,...
A photograph of South Harpeth Church of Christ located at 8727 Old Harding Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Said to be the oldest Church of Christ in Davidson County, the South Harpeth congregation first organized in 1812. The original building was...
A souvenir program from a concert performed by Lucrezia Bori, a celebrated Spanish operatic singer. The show was at the Ryman Auditorium on November 26, 1926, presented by the Board of the Martha O'Bryan Settlement. The Ryman Auditorium is...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a banquet related to Spanish-American War veterans. The caption reads: “As a preliminary event for today’s reunion of Spanish-American War veterans, the above group of Spanish Daughters...
A postcard of the Sparkman Street Bridge, later renamed Shelby Street Bridge, looking down river. The Nashville Bridge Company's office is visible on the right bank of the Cumberland River and railroad tracks are seen in the foreground. A...
A color postcard of the Sparkman Street Bridge, renamed Shelby Street Bridge. The bridge was completed in 1909, spanning the Cumberland River to link East Nashville to Downtown. At completion, the bridge was hailed as the "finest highway bridge...