A portrait photograph of Katherine Polk Gale (1838-1916), the author of "Recollections of Life in the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865." Katherine was a daughter of Episcopalian Bishop Leonidas Polk, a Confederate general in the American Civil War...
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 St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church located at 1700 Heiman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was erected in 1932 and founded as a mission and a school. The school was one of two Catholic institutions opened by Sister...
A postcard of the Oak Hill mansion, the grand 19th century residence of Mr. and Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, located approximately seven miles south of Nashville on Franklin Pike in Davidson County, Tennessee. Oak Hill, which suggests a French chateau...
A photograph of "women of the Brentwood Methodist
Church who prepared lunch for the group, including Mrs. Milton McArthur, Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. George S. Herbert, Mrs. Ewing Bradford, Mrs. Charles Howell, Sr., who served as chairman, Mrs. Charles...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Murfreesboro Girls’ Cotillion Club and their recent election of “the following new officers to serve during 1940: left to right, Miss Aynn Kirtley, recording secretary; Miss Clara...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a student folk dance. The caption reads: “With Parent-Teacher Association groups everywhere observing Founders’ Day at their February meetings, the local associations have cooperated by...
The Oak Hill “residence of Mr. and Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, like many other homes on the Franklin Pike, is situated on a portion of the battle field of Nashville. Many relics of this conflict are here preserved. On the lovely lawn, immediately in...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...