1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
A photograph of Mrs. Wilma Folwell, librarian, and the student library assistants on the steps of Bailey School in 1954. Bailey School, built in 1929, is located in the Eastwood neighborhood of East Nashville. The student library assistants were...
A photograph showing some of the high school attendees at the 1950 Christmas dinner held at the Fannie Battle Day Home. The dinner was "given in honor of the tiny tots at the Fannie Battle Day Home by members of the Fannie Battle Social Workers...
A Spring of 1937 photograph of the East Nashville High School baseball squad, Nashville, Tennessee. The verso lists the names of the players and coach: (sitting) Weaver, Tanksley, Cothern, Gonzales, Bohan, Voorhies, Martin; (standing) Demrick,...
A front view of the old Father Ryan High School, located at 2300 Elliston Place in Nashville, Tennessee. This school building was originally constructed circa 1928-29 on land that was once a part of the Elliston family plantation. The Roman...
A postcard of Hume-Fogg High School, a public high school located at 700 Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1912 Hume High School and Fogg High School merged into Hume-Fogg at the school's current site on Broadway. The building was constructed...
A photograph of a performance given by the Nashville Symphony for students of Pearl and Haynes High Schools at Pearl on Dec. 10, 1951. Students from Pearl and Haynes packed the auditorium for one of the final 1951 Student Concerts by the Nashville...
A photograph of the seventh and eighth grade Nashville Youth Orchestra holding paper replicas of their instruments made at the Julia Andrews School, in the Berry Hill neighborhood off Thompson Lane. The Nashville Youth Orchestra gave the first of...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about the operetta presented by du Pont students. The text reads: “The ‘Fanfare’ chorus pictured above participated in a du Pont High School operetta entitled ‘Hollywood Bound,’...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights movement participant King M. Hollands, conducted on 28 June 2006 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Hollands was one of the first students to...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nell Barnes, conducted on 7 August 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Barnes discusses attending Hume-Fogg High school but having to quit school...