A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the new Elks new dining facility. The caption reads: “Over 200 Elks were present at a dinner session held at the order’s new $15,000 Teak Room and Dining Room on Sixth Avenue, North, last...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. In the foreground, Chief Justice Earl Warren and another judge look at a "No Prayer Decree" and look out the...
A photograph of six young women sitting on the ground in front of Nashville's Parthenon at Centennial Park, West End Avenue at 25th Avenue North, which is an exact replica of Athen's Parthenon. This photograph appeared in the Nashville Banner...
A photograph of the Christ the King's Boys' Choir singing "Put a candle in the window" at the 1950 Fannie Battle Social Workers' Christmas tea, held at the home of Mrs. Tony Sudekum. From left to right, the singers are: Robert Kirchner, Joe...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon is a caricature of the Democratic presidential balloting and supporters in the national election...
A photograph of a chimney amid the ruins of Lesli Bills’s home in Pennington Bend after flooding caused an explosion during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.Lesli Bills and her friend Billy Heldenberg were rescued by a man on a jetski shortly...
A photograph of a class in modern dance at Ward-Belmont College located at 1900 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. Pictured are Claudia Whitson (top center), (down left to right) Jane Bagley, Yvette Franz, Obduha Rafferty, Betty Lou Gibson,...
A photograph of a family leaving their home by canoe and avoiding a submerged basketball goal during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of a fireman facing the fire at the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin during the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville...
A group photograph of volunteers from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance during a cleanup in Bellevue with the Harpeth River Watershed Association after the May 2010 flood. The group collected debris from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old...
A copy photograph of an 1890's gymnastics class of young female students at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. William Mallison and Mrs. George Frazier) on the gym...
A photograph of a home moved off its foundation by floodwaters near Antioch Pike in South Nashville during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
The residence known as “Bonnie Brae,” once rested on twenty-two acres along the hillside of the present-day southwestern corner of Woodlawn Drive and I-440. The Villager Condominiums stand there now. “Bonnie Brae” derives its name from the...