A young Randal McGavock is standing in front of a column and red drape, right hand (complete with pinky ring) on hip and left hand holding a book. He is wearing a dark suit with a white vest. The frame is massive and elaborate. Randal William...
A photograph of the Two Rivers Mansion, located at 3130 McGavock Pike, approximately 11 miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, as it appeared circa 1978. Two Rivers Mansion was constructed in 1859 for David H. McGavock and his wife William...
John Berrien Lindsley in late middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair and full beard and mustache, wearing a grey suit. Nineteenth-century Nashville educator, physician, minister, and author John Berrien Lindsley was born in New Jersey in 1822. His...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The map on...
A photograph of the Old Harris Home at McGavock Lane and Couchville Pike, Nashville, Tennessee. It became part of the airport property. Nashville's airport officially opened in 1937 as Berry Field, in honor of Colonel Harry S. Berry, the state...
The historic Belle Meade Plantation was founded by John Harding, of Goochland County, Virginia in 1807. Harding purchased 250 acres of farm land near Richland Creek and the Natchez Trace. He was very interested in horses and soon boarded horses...
The City Hay Market was located on Fourth Avenue South between McGavock and Demonbreun Streets. It was used mainly for the sale and swapping of horses, mules and cows. The hay brought in for the animals gave the market its name. 4 x 6 in.
A photograph of picketers holding the Nashville Banner newspaper's morning extra announcing the settlement of the 57-day-old strike of Louisville & Nashville and Nashville Chattanooga & Saint Louis railway workers. They were picketing at Eleventh...
Subdivision of Mt. Olivet Cemetery lot 161, section one, owned by Dr. D.T. McGavock. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, located on Lebanon Road, opened in 1856 and is still in operation today. 8 x 10 in.
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Dr. W. L. Dudley, a distinguished scientist, lecturer, and head of the Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dudley was born in 1859 in Covington, Kentucky. He earned his...
(and Eakin, John & Grundy, Felix & McGavock, Jacob & Winder); 25; East; 2; 40.0x72.0; 213; I; 05/31/1843; Bass, Anna Stone 1779-1809; Bass, Peter 1779-1829; Bass, William J. 1809-1828; Bass, Melvina Winder 1840-1849; Masterson, Maria G. 1815-1880;...
(and Eakin, John & Grundy, Felix & McGavock, Jacob & Winder); 25; East; 2; 40.0x72.0; 213; I; 05/31/1843; Bass, Anna Stone 1779-1809; Bass, Peter 1779-1829; Bass, William J. 1809-1828; Bass, Melvina Winder 1840-1849; Masterson, Maria G. 1815-1880;...
A photograph of flooded fields and barns in the Neely's Bend area of Nashville during the May 2010 flood taken from McGavock Pike.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.