A portrait of an unidentified Meharry Medical College graduate, circa 1900. The school was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College and the first medical school in the South for African Americans. It was chartered...
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 drawing...
A postcard of Meharry Medical College located adjacent to the Fisk University campus on D.B. Todd Jr. Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The school was first organized in 1876 as the largest professional college in the world for the training of...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
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...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass discusses working as an...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross...
A photograph of Seay-Hubbard Methodist Church located at 1116 First Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1875, this church originally began as Seay's Chapel at 1108 First Avenue South, just a few blocks away from its current location. ...
A listing of speakers and lecture hours are given for a lecture session taking place at the University of Nashville Medical Department. Formerly Davidson Academy and Cumberland College, the University of Nashville was so named at the suggestion of...
John Shelby in his middle age, with dark hair and wearing a dark jacket and white shirt. Born in 1786, John Shelby was a physician, a Postmaster, and a civic and church leader. He is said to have been the first child of European descent born in...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Cheri Silverstein, conducted on 6 October 2007 by her friend Andrea Rodriguez at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
A photograph of the Doctors' Building located on the corner of Church Street and Polk Street. The steel frame structure was built in two stages. The first three stories were built in 1916 and the second three stories were built in 1921. ...
The official ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the Veteran’s Administration Hospital, at Vanderbilt campus, Twenty-fourth Avenue S and Garland. The ceremony was presented by Mayor Ben West, as well as other dignitaries and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville doctor and urologist Henry L. Douglass, conducted on 11 November 1981 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Douglass discusses the street cars in...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the Tennessee...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights activists Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel and Ernest Rip Patton conducted on 17 January 2003 by Kathryn G. Bennett. In the excerpts Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discusses his decision as a young man...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Dr. Rodney N. Powell on 29 March 2005 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Rodney Powell talks about social conscience; being part of the student...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashvillian Mary Manier Cooper, conducted on 10 November 1980 by Fred Cooper as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Cooper discusses riding the streetcars;...
A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During the...