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- Guilford Dudley, Jr., 1957
- Guilford Dudley, Jr. (1907-2002) was the United States ambassador to Denmark under the Nixon and Ford presidential administrations. From 1952 until 1969, Dudley served as president of Life & Casualty Insurance Company. Dudley was the youngest...
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- Guilford Dudley, Jr. receives Metro medal from Mayor Briley, 1969 May 26
- Life and Casualty Insurance Executive Guilford Dudley, Jr. received a medal of recognition from Nashville Mayor Briley on May 26th, 1969. Dudley served as president of Life & Casualty Insurance Company from 1952 until 1969. He was the youngest...
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- Al Jolson, singing comedian stops off here, 1941 March 14
- Al Jolson, famous singing comedian of the stage and screen, stopped in Nashville “yesterday evening en route by plane to the West Coast for a surprise visit to his son, who celebrates his sixth birthday today. He is shown at the Hermitage Hotel...
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- Salvage scrap drive in Nashville and Middle Tennessee region, 1942 October
- Pictured: “West End Students scrap for Victory: the students at West End High School yesterday entered the Banner scrap contest and are out to win a prize. Some of the school’s leading ‘scrappers’ are seen with a portion of their...
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- Excerpt 15 from oral history interview with Kenneth L. Roberts, 2006 July 27
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
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- Excerpt 19 from oral history interview with Kenneth L. Roberts, 2006 July 27
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
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- Photograph of Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, 1960 March 01
- A photograph of Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr., at First Baptist Church, 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1, 1960. Having served as field representative for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Reverend Lawson was the key organizer and...
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- Photograph of mass meeting, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, with Guy Carawan leading song on guitar, 1960 April 21
- A photograph of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Guy Carawan of the Highlander Folk School at a mass meeting at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, following the bombing of attorney Z. Alexander...
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- Photograph of students marching during the Freedom March on Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 1963 March 23
- A photograph of anti-segregation demonstrators during the Freedom March, 18th Avenue North and Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 23, 1963. Leading the march is John R. Lewis and Archie E. Allen. The Freedom March was sponsored by the...
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- Aerial view of Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1940
- A postcard aerial view of downtown Nashville, circa 1940. Leading up to the 1940s, Nashville's importance as a trading center grew steadily, and the city was known to the business world as "The Commercial Capital of the Central South." The...
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- Oral history interview with Edward F. Jones, 2006 November 03, excerpt 09
- An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted on 03 November 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The...
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- Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church, 2002 November
- A photograph of the Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church located at 319 Fifteenth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building was built in 1925 by the nation's first African-American-owned architectural firm,...
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- Bijou Theatre, Nashville, Tenn., 1908
- A postcard of the Bijou Theatre located at 423 Fourth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This 1624 seat theatre was erected in 1904 on the site of a previous theatre that had burned two years prior. Events included live stage performances and...
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- Belmont College and grounds, Nashville, Tenn., circa 1910
- A postcard of Belmont College, a collegiate and preparatory school for young ladies located in Nashville, Tennessee. This school for girls was opened in 1890 in the West End neighborhood, at the intersection of Broad and Vauxhall Streets. Some...
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- Peabody Normal College, Nashville, circa 1906
- A postcard of Peabody Normal College, an outgrowth of the declining literary department of the University of Nashville on Second Avenue. In 1874 Barnas Sears, Peabody Education Fund administrator, offered $6,000 annually if the University of...
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- Photograph of the National Baptist Publishing Board, 1960 October 06
- A photograph of the National Baptist Publishing Board building on Second Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The National Baptist Publishing Board began as Dr. R.H. Boyd's dream for African Americans to publish Baptist Sunday School materials for...
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