An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, cartoonist with the Memphis Commercial Appeal from the early 1930s to circa 1944. This anti-Nazi cartoon depicts the cloud of "D-Day" in the background, while a fearful Hitler has a heavy...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., conducted on 3 February 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Baskette, a gunner in the 90th Chemical Mortar...
Street scene in Dreiborn, Germany, 1944. Shows battle-scarred buildings, muddy street, many communications wires, and an American jeep and an MP at an intersection. A church steeple, shrouded in mist, was occupied by a German sniper who killed an...
Sister Cities board members Doug Berry and Burkley Allen present a flood relief check, from donations gathered at a concert in Nashville’s sister city Magdeburg, Germany, to Mayor Karl Dean and Executive Director of Hands on Nashville Brian...
Doug Berry and Burkley Allen of Sister Cities present commemorative “Spirit of Nashville” flood relief posters to Dr. Lutz Trümper, the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany, Nashville’s sister city, in October of 2010. Citizens of Magdeburg organized...
Jazz group Sax’n Anhalt performs at a flood relief concert in Johanniskirche organized by Nashville’s sister city Magdeburg, Germany in May of 2010. The concert raised over $6,000.
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Jazz group Sax’n Anhalt performs outside the Johanniskirche at a flood relief concert organized by Nashville’s sister city Magdeburg, Germany in May of 2010. The concert raised over $6,000 in donations for flood relief in Nashville.
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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...
A two-page typewritten letter by Jessie Wallace to her mother, Mrs. C.M. (Lorine) Wallace of Ames, Iowa. Jessie grew up in Oklahoma and her family moved to Iowa during the Depression. During World War II, Jessie Wallace (later McNutt) served in...
A postcard of the Nashville Reservoir located on Eighth Avenue South. An electric streetcar is pictured on the road. In 1889 the city built the reservoir on top of Kirkpatrick Hill on the site of Fort Casino just south of downtown Nashville. The...
An elderly Edward Bushrod Stahlman, with grey hair and a receding hairline, seated in a wooden chair and holding a newspaper in his right hand. He is wearing a grey suit with a vest, tie, and collared shirt. Born in 1843 in Germany, Edward...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel served from 1943 until 1946 as a Gray Lady at...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...