Excerpts from an interview with Madison businessman Douglas G. Odom, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In the excerpts, Odom discusses his family's business, Odom's...
Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Marion R. Jenkins and Sharon Y. Parrish, conducted on 15 September 2007 by their sister, Brenda P. Wynn, at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Corinne Frazier Calhoun Bailey, conducted on 14 February 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bailey, who was the daughter of Tyler Calhoun, a Nashville...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Mary Frances Berry, conducted on 5 September 2003 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Berry...
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 investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses his mother's refusal to move to...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ophelia and Walter Stokes, conducted on 29 August 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Mr. and Mrs. Stokes describe the Shooting the Chute ride...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Le Sueur, conducted on 11 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Le Sueur discusses her clothing as a child and explains that her mother...
A photograph of a church referred to as the House of God, an African American Pentecostal denomination also known as the Church of the Living God. The full name used on the front entrance signage reads: The House of God Which is the Church of the...
A pamphlet advertising life insurance for soldiers during World War II. The cover graphic portrays a fatherless family standing with Uncle Sam juxtaposed against a mass gathering of soldiers in the background. The inside pages use persuasive...
A two-page typewritten letter by Jessie Wallace to her mother, Mrs. C.M. (Lorine) Wallace of Ames, Iowa. Jessie grew up in Oklahoma and her family moved to Iowa during the Depression. During World War II, Jessie Wallace (later McNutt) served in...
Mrs. Adeline Sanders Mosely Battle in middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair, light blue eyes, and wearing a dark dress. At her neck she is wearing a miniature of her husband, Col. Joel A. Battle, who served as a colonel in the Twentieth Tennessee...
A photograph of Mrs. Miller G. Kimbrough, chairman for the Fannie Battle Day Home Christmas Eve carol choirs, seen with her son, Miller, Jr., who is having "visions of sugar plums" as his mother reads "The Night Before Christmas." This photograph...
A photograph of Mrs. Eleanor Hankins (Hank) Fort, a Nashville native and prominent singer-songwriter. Popularly known by the stage name of Hank Fort, her music included songs with a Southern flavor, such as: "Put Your Shoes on Lucy," "Nashville's...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the food stamp plan in Davidson County, Tennessee. The caption is: “When the food stamp plan began operation at 9 a.m. Thursday, the clerks in charge were busy from the first …....
Nashville Mayor Briley is pictured with a mother and daughter, as they are presented with the Poppy Day Proclamation, on May 27th, 1965. The bright red Poppy flower is a symbol of the sacrifice of lives in war and represents the hope that none had...