A photograph of the Male Quartet of the Fisk Jubilee Singers performing at Peabody College, July 26, 1948. Directed by 20-year veteran Mrs. James A. Myers, the group had recently completed their first tour of Latin America and the Caribbean,...
An autographed hand-signed photograph of Joseph T. Macpherson, a Metropolitan Opera Company bass-baritone, from Amqui, Tennessee. This photograph is inscribed to his Nashville voice teacher Signor G. S. de Luca with the notation: "To Signor G. S....
A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
A photograph of James Melton, the noted Metropolitan Opera tenor pictured in front of the Hermitage Hotel at 231 6th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. James Melton was in town to speak at his alma mater Vanderbilt and visit old friends. In the...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of an unidentified Drouillard child (male) pictured in a sailor suit, between 1885 and 1904. While it is unknown which Drouillard this is, the young man is probably a direct descendant of the Civil War veteran...
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...