A typescript original will of Mrs. Mary K. Bailey, of Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, dated February 21st, 1920, with a codicil dated February 28th, 1920. Illustrates the first page of the document. Bailey’s will was presented for...
This beautiful covered shopping arcade, located between Fourth and Fifth Avenues N, in downtown Nashville, was built in 1903 and was modeled after the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II arcade in Milan, Italy. The City Beautiful Award ribbon was...
Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy visited Nashville on March 2nd, 1959. Kennedy spoke at a sold out Democratic party banquet at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. Mayor Ben West acted as toastmaster for the event. Forms part of Record...
Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy visited Nashville on March 2nd, 1959. Kennedy spoke at a sold out Democratic party banquet at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. Mayor Ben West acted as toastmaster for the event. Forms part of Record...
Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy visited Nashville on March 2nd, 1959. Kennedy spoke at a sold out Democratic party banquet at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. Mayor Ben West acted as toastmaster for the event. Forms part of Record...
An original will of Mrs. Victoria A. Baldwin, dated May 19th, 1919. Illustrates the first page of the document. Baldwin’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on July 23rd, 1919. Among the named beneficiaries in...
A typescript will of Mrs. Amanda J. Ball, dated March 16th, 1922, with a codicil of June 13th, 1922. Illustrates the first page of the document. Ball’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on October 15th, 1925. Forms...
Al Jolson, famous singing comedian of the stage and screen, stopped in Nashville “yesterday evening en route by plane to the West Coast for a surprise visit to his son, who celebrates his sixth birthday today. He is shown at the Hermitage Hotel...
A styled “King Ludwig ring,” a replica made by the B. F. Stief company of Nashville, Tennessee. The B. F. Stief Jewelry Company, one of the South’s outstanding jewelry establishments, originated at the beginning of the Civil War. Pertaining...
Photographic postcard depicting people walking across the frozen Cumberland River at Nashville, Tennessee, January 26, 1940. Several barges and towboats are visible below the Cumberland River Sand Company in East Nashville. Forms part of the...
Pictured: Secretary of State and Mrs. Cordell Hull, with an unidentified dignitary, in Nashville for the funeral services of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr (July 20, 1869-June 4, 1936). was a U.S. politician, born in Cedar Hill,...
A photograph, circa 1962, of an airline stewardess reading a book in the Nashville Public Library Airport Reading Room, the first branch library reading room ever to be established in a Municipal Airport. The Airport Reading Room was established...
A photograph of staff members pictured in front of a "library-on-wheels" bookmobile of the Nashville Public Library in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1955. This particular bookmobile was in service from 1954-1973, with approximately 3000 volumes...
A photograph of Nashville Public Library staff members placing books on the shelves of the Nashville Public Library bookmobile, circa April 1955. This particular bookmobile was in service from 1954-1973, with approximately 3000 volumes aboard the...
A 1941 scene of the razing of the Henry Drive home in Nashville, Tennessee, at 1206 McFerrin Avenue in East Nashville. The original structure was built in 1835. Henry Driver was the brother to Capt. William Driver and the grandfather of Mrs. E....
Pictured: “No age limit on patriotism: when Jackson County started assembling scrap to enter the Banner contest just about everybody in the county took part in a mass movement of patriotism. Young and old came out to a scrap rally at Gainesboro,...
Pictured: “Scrap is chief study at Ransom School: the pupils at Ransom School are some of the county’s most diligent scrappers, with all spare time devoted to the canvassing of neighborhood homes and farms. Some of the school’s chief...
Pictured: “Neighborhood group piles up scrap: four school children have canvassed the Twenty-eighth Avenue, South, neighborhood with the large pile above resulting. The children are shown as they helped load the nearly 1,000 pounds of salvage on...
Pictured: “Trucks harvest scrap at Williamson Schools: when salvage leaders and volunteer truck operators in Williamson County toured schools yesterday they found a rich harvest of scrap gathered by schools competing in the Banner salvage...
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...