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...
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...
A photograph of Central Church of Christ located at 145 Fifth Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1925 with a congregation of only 47 members. Membership today now exceeds 1,200. Early works of the church ranged from general...
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 postcard of Nashville's City Hospital (later known as Nashville General Hospital, 72 Hermitage Avenue) as it appeared circa 1913. This stately edifice was designed by Thompson & Gibel, Architects. It was the first city-owned and operated...
A photograph of Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
A postcard of the Confederate Soldiers' Home. The Confederate Soldiers' Home was built on the original Hermitage properties in 1892 and served as a retirement home for civil war soldiers. On land southwest of the Hermitage mansion, the soldiers'...
A photograph of the Education and Hygiene Building at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, circa 1897. This non-extant structure was built for the celebration of Tennessee's 100th year of statehood that opened May 1, 1897, at...
A photograph of Davidson County Judge Beverly Briley receiving the polio vaccine at one of the special anti-polio vaccine clinics at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He is seen grinning as the nurse, Mrs. Mary Scott, prepares to inject...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 describes health care in...
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...
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...
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;...