A photograph of Peach Blossom, the family home of Joseph Erwin, located at 215 Craighead Avenue, circa 1960. The original structure was constructed in a Georgian architectural style, built circa 1803, and subsequent owners of the property made new...
A photograph of the old Elks Lodge no. 72, located at 310 6th Avenue North, bordered by Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The lodge was home to the Elks, beginning in 1904, serving numerous community functions and charity projects...
A souvenir postcard sending greetings from Nashville, Tennessee. Several attractions are depicted inside the block letters of Nashville. From left to right they are: Sam Davis Monument, War Memorial Building, Memorial Square, the Hermitage,...
A souvenir postcard sending greetings from Nashville, Tennessee. Several attractions are depicted inside the block letters of Nashville. From left to right they are: Sam Davis Monument, War Memorial Building, Memorial Square, the Hermitage,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant DeLois Wilkinson, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Kathy G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Wilkinson...
A photograph of the inundated Jackson Downs shopping center off Lebanon Road in Donelson during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of the flooded First Tennessee Bank in the Jackson Downs shopping center off Lebanon Road in Donelson during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of the flooded Target store in the Jackson Downs shopping center off Lebanon Road in Donelson during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
The West Meade Mansion was built in 1886 by U.S. Supreme Court Judge Howell E. Jackson, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of General William G. Harding. The stately red brick mansion with a huge porch is built in the French Victorian style....
An aerial photograph of downtown Nashville, photographed for The Nashville Banner, by photographer John Morgan circa 1954. The view includes the urban landscape from the area adjacent to the Tennessee State Capitol building, south to Demonbreun...
A photograph of the groundbreaking ceremonies for the main library in Nashville, Tennessee, located at 8th Avenue North and Union Street, circa December 1963. Pictured are, from left to right, Chairman of the Nashville Public Library Board Charles...
Pictured: “Jackson County brings in the scrap: this is an inspiring picture of what a patriotic county, in addition to sending its sons into battle, can do toward winning the war. This scene is in Gainesboro, Jackson County. Piled high against...
Pictured: “No age limit on patriotism: when Jackson County started assembling scrap to enter the Banner contest just about everybody in the county took part in a mass movement of patriotism. Young and old came out to a scrap rally at Gainesboro,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
President and Mrs. Johnson placing a wreath at the tomb of President Andrew Jackson while visiting Nashville to participate in the celebration of the 200th anniversary observance of President Jackson's birthday. 3 x 4 in.
A postcard of the Hermitage Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The Hermitage Club building was first a downtown residence in between Church and Union Streets at 233 Sixth Avenue North, then called High Street. The builder of the house was Confederate...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses his father discovering the...