During the fall of 1933, WSM radio presented a radio "newsreel" of outstanding colleges in the nation. They broadcasted a total of 28 shows on Mondays and Fridays. The broadcasts recreated college life and sports events, complete with legitimate...
A photograph of a performance given by the Nashville Symphony for students of Pearl and Haynes High Schools at Pearl on Dec. 10, 1951. Students from Pearl and Haynes packed the auditorium for one of the final 1951 Student Concerts by the Nashville...
A photograph of country music performer and businessman Eddy Arnold with Mrs. Leslie (Mary) Grizzard, his secretary. The photograph appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper as part of a series of articles about Nashville employers and their...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader E.W. "Bud" Wendell, conducted on 22 June 2007 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Marguerite Martin, conducted on 6 October 2007 by her daughter Sarah McConnell at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
Excerpts from an interview with Matthew Kennedy conducted on 10 September 2008 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. Matthew Kennedy discussing coming to Fisk University after graduating from Julliard; his earliest...
A photograph of the David Lipscomb College Quartette, circa April, 1929. The second man pictured is Robert (Bob) Neil. The other persons in the varsity quartette are unidentified. Lipscomb University (20th century official name) was founded in...
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 photograph of Dinah Shore surrounded by family and friends at the Nashville Airport. This partial text accompanied the photograph appearing in the Nashville Banner newspaper on March 15, 1941: "Dinah Shore, radio and record artist, stopped for...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Deford Bailey Jr., conducted on October 14 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Deford Bailey Jr. describes his experience getting stuck in floodwaters on his way to...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Carol Warren conducted on November 03, 2011 by Bettina Warkentin as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Carol Warren is a musician whose Franklin home flooded during the May 2010 flood while...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Ednaearle Burney, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include some of Ednaearle’s losses from the...
A photograph of a damaged guitar belonging to musician Michael Spriggs. Michael Spriggs stored his instruments at Soundcheck, which flooded during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History...
A photograph of musician Carol Warren’s damaged guitar cases after her home in Franklin was flooded during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of a damaged guitar belonging to musician Michael Spriggs. Michael Spriggs stored his instruments at Soundcheck, which flooded during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History...
A photograph of a damaged guitar belonging to musician Michael Spriggs. Michael Spriggs stored his instruments at Soundcheck, which flooded during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
A photograph of a damaged guitar belonging to musician Michael Spriggs. Michael Spriggs stored his instruments at Soundcheck, which flooded during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History...
A photograph of damaged equipment in a storage locker belonging to musician Michael Spriggs. Michael Spriggs stored his instruments at Soundcheck, which flooded during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010...
The Easter Egg Hunt and music at the Colemere Country Club on April 12th, 1952 with music entertainment by James Cecil Dickens, (better known as Little Jimmy Dickens) and a band of musicians. Mayor Ben West is at the event with a large crowd of...
Celebrity entertainer Rosemary Clooney, as she appeared at the WSM Sunday Down South Show, and the Grand Ole Opry at Ryman Auditorium. The performance date was in February, 1953. She also met Mayor and Mrs. Ben West at the Richland Club. A year...