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...
Tarbox School opened in 1880 on 17th Avenue between Hayes Street and West End Avenue. It was named for L.G. Tarbox who served as principal of Hume school. In 1886, a new three story, brick building with a six story bell tower was constructed and...
A postcard of St. Thomas Hospital located on Hayes Street at the corner of Twentieth Avenue. This hospital was established by Bishop Thomas S. Byrne, and run by the Sisters of Charity under the Roman Catholic Church. In 1974, St. Thomas opened a...
A photograph of Tom Tichenor and marionette (string) puppeteers Mark Ketterson and Emma Hayes Wade (pictured left to right), performing in the Children's Division of the Nashville Public Library, circa 1973. Tom Tichenor began his career as a...
A photograph of Acklen Hall, home of Joseph Hayes Acklen (1850-1938), on Fairmont Street, Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the 1890s, this Victorian-style home was the centerpiece of one of Nashville's first gated communities, Acklen Park. Also...
A Real Photo postcard of the Tarbox School, originally belonging to Sara Webb, a student who was in the fifth or sixth grade around 1932. This view shows the front exterior of the three-story school building prior to the structural damage caused by...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a musical program: “McKendree Methodist Church will be the scene Sunday evening at 7 o’clock of a musical program presented by the church choir. Besides Easter hymns, the choir composed...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Robert Cash’s birthday party. The caption states he was “host at a birthday party recently at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cash, 1711 Woodland Street. Those sent at the...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...