This photograph by Nashville Banner photographer Bill Goodman is hand-titled "Fire engine riders" and depicts a scene in front of the Fannie Battle Day Home located at 911 Shelby Avenue in East Nashville. The horse-drawn fire wagon has a driver and...
Third Baptist Church was organized in 1876. In 1877 the membership erected a building on a Jefferson Street site given to the congregation by First Baptist Church. In 1899 the congregation purchased a lot on Monroe Street and in 1904, using brick...
The marriage bond was a guarantee or promise that the couple had a legal right to be married. That is to say, the couple was of age, that neither was already married and that there was no other reason why they could not be married according to law....
The Christmas Lighting with Mayor Ben West at Belle Meade Plaza on November 20th, 1961. This festive celebration at the plaza, located on Harding Road, included music entertainment by the West High School Band and choral singers. Forms part of...
Pictured: “Cavert School loads vital scrap: this is only one of many truckloads of much needed scrap metal that has been collected and transported to junk dealers by the students of Calvert School, one of the contestants in the Banner scrap...
Original wills of W. L. (William L.) Bainbridge (will dated March 16th, 1905, probated in Davidson County Court on November 4th, 1905) and his wife Valeria E. Bainbridge (will dated April 5th, 1906, probated in Davidson County on September 17th,...
Nashville Banner reporter Dick Battle (pictured on right) and two photojournalists on a helicopter flight at the airport, November 1954. Battle came to Nashville from his native St. Louis in 1916. He graduated from Goodlettsville High School in...
Liberace, a famous American pianist and vocalist, posing with civic leader, banker, and politician Gayle Lewis Gupton (center) and an unidentified man, in Lebanon, Tennessee. Liberace, a famous and flamboyant entertainer (born Wladziu Valentino...
Jesse Clifton Burt, Jr., in middle age, wearing a brown suit and green tie, with his arms crossed. His wedding band and watch are visible. Historian, author, and free-lance writer, Jesse Burt was born in 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Jesse...
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;...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Germán Castro, conducted on November 08, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Germán Castro, pastor of El Shaddai Christian Church in Brentwood, discusses events...
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...
Charles M. Morris appeared before the Circuit Court Clerk to declare his intention to become a citizen of the Confederate States of America and to renounce forever all allegiance to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America.
Andrew Benedict with grandchild and parents (Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bell “Buddy” Benedict III) in Mayor Ben West’s office on November 18th, 1962. Andrew Bell Benedict, Jr. was a distinguished leader of First American National Bank who held...
An original will of William R. Allen, dated October 10th, 1924. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on November 12th, 1924. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of W. W. Allen, dated November 18th, 1888. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allen’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court during December Term 1888. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Thomas P. Ayres, dated November 29th, 1898. Illustrates the first page of the document. Ayres’ will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on September 11th, 1914. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Thomas J. Allison, dated November 7th, 1897. Illustrates the first page of the document. Allison’s will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on November 20th, 1900. Forms part of Record Group 16, Original...
An original will of Selah Atkinson, dated October 1st, 1816. Illustrates the first page of the document. Atkinson’s will was recorded in “book No. 7, page 100, on November 22nd, 1816, Davidson County Court. Forms part of Record Group 16,...