Excerpts from an interview with Nashville businessman, Thomas Charles ("T.C.") Jones, conducted on 10 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Jones discusses success playing softball and how it...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights activists Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel and Ernest Rip Patton conducted on 17 January 2003 by Kathryn G. Bennett. In the excerpts Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discusses his decision as a young man...
An excerpt from an interview with Billy Howard, conducted on May 31, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Howard discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
Opened in January of 1940, Carter-Lawrence Elementary was a combination of two previously separate schools. Carter Elementary, containing grades one through six, was located just north of the present site on 12th Avenue South. Lawrence Elementary,...
Cavert School opened in September of 1928 for students in grades one through nine. The school was named for Dr. A.J. Cavert who served as principal at Howard, Fogg, Hume, Fall and Warner schools among others. Cavert became a junior high in 1936...
A photograph showing several additional carol chairmen announced by Mrs. Ernest Jones, Jr., 1948 carol chairman for the Fannie Battle Social Workers, in preparations for Christmas Eve caroling in 1949. Pictured here, seated left to right, are Mrs....
Mary Frances "Fannie" Battle in her later years, with grey hair, light blue or grey eyes, and wearing glasses and a white shirt. Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle (1842-1924) was a Nashville humanitarian and social worker who was known during her...
A photograph of Fannie Battle Day Home territorial chairmen seen at the home of Mrs. Howard Adkins, circa 4 December 1951, where she displays the symbol of the Fannie Battle carol singers, "A candle in the window; a carol at the door." Seen from...
An older man, seated, with grey hair, wearing a dark business suit, white shirt, and red tie. Subject of portrait unknown, although it may be Representative, Senator, Secretary of State, "Father of the United Nations," and 1945 Nobel Peace...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A photograph of the Cavert School, located at 2500 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, circa 1996. Cavert School opened as an elementary school circa 1928. The structure is designed in the classical style and with Eakin School was one of Nashville's early...
(Transferred from McClellan, S.A.); 4; 13; 20.0x30.0; 170; II; 08/05/1851; 196; II; 07/31/1851; Duncan, Jessie B. -1846; Duncan, John 1865-1878; Duncan, Robert 1836-1889; Duncan, Robert James 1846-1873; Duncan, Susan 1839-1884; Duncan, Susie B....
11; West; 35; 10.0x40.0; *Can't find the deed, but according to the Plat book this lot is owned by a Mrs. Waldron.; Howard, Mary M. 1879-1887; Waldron, Amanda 1842-1907; Waldron, Charles 1838-1875; Waldron, Willia 1871-1874
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,’...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Colonial Foods. The caption reads: “This Mack truck, together with three Mack tractors equipped with trailers, recently delivered to the C. B. Ragland Company, wholesale grocers. Dependable...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the F. G. R. Club. The caption reads: “Members of the F. G. R. Club entertained recently with a weiner roast at Sycamore Lodge. Members seen at the entertainment, from left to right, are as...