An account sales list of personal property of Willie E. Allen, “sold by J. D. Brown, Admr.,” subscribed and sworn on September 2nd, 1889. Illustrates the first page of the document. Notation: “Rec. in Book of Wills, no. 30, pgs. [314?]”...
The Nashville Bridge Company off-street parking, circa 1953. The McCann Steel Company at 400 2nd Avenue S can be seen in the background. The Cumberland Oil Company is on the right at 106 Shelby Avenue 6. The Nashville Bridge Company was...
The Nashville Bridge Company, in February 1953, located along the east side of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced a...
The Nashville Bridge Company and the West Kentucky Coal Company vessel, circa 1957, on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced...
The Honorary Citizenship of Nashville for Walter J. Bitterlich, by Mayor Ben West on October 12th, 1960. Bitterlich, a renown Austrian forester, who invented the relascope, was born in 1908 in Reutte, Tirol, Austria. He descended from several...
The Nashville Bridge Company, in 1956, located along the east side of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced a continuous and...
An original will of James John Ambrose, dated March 29th, 1893. Illustrates the first page of the document. Ambrose’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on October 26th, 1914. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
The home of Captain John Bradford, named “Woodstock,” located on Granny White Pike, Nashville, Tennessee. The original home, according to a note in the scrapbook, was located at approximately 4510 Granny White Pike. Lizzie Nichol “was...
Pictured: “At Triune School … students and their teacher were throwing scrap on the heap. They were Lewis Cothran, captain; Mrs. J. H. Windrow, teacher; Lucie Marlin, Doris Ann Rowlett, captain; Mrs. G. V. Arnold and Harvey Powers, captain.”...
Pictured: “Cameron High School aids scrap drive: students at Cameron High School, 1028 First Avenue, South, have piled up a large scrap heap on the school yard in their patriotic cooperation with the current salvage drive. L. W. Beasley serves...
Pictured: (left to right) Unidentified man, Grafton Green, C. J., James Clark McReynolds, Justice of U. S. Supreme Court, and Nashville attorney Percy D. Maddin, seated together at a banquet table. Grafton Green was an American jurist. He earned...
A photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins with police officers before a demonstration, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 1963. Reverend Rollins served with the National Committee of Black Churchmen and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville minister Dr. Frank F. Drowota, Jr., conducted on 20 November 1980 by Helen Drowota as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Drowota, a native of England and the...
A photograph of an aerial view of the Nashville Bridge Company with the Shelby Street Bridge and downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in the background. The company was started in 1902 by Arthur J. Dyer, who graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in...
A photograph of the Family of Faith Church located at 106 Joyner Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the building was first used for Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, whose congregation was organized July 8, 1937 by...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the state Capitol...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures and...