One Hundred Oaks Shopping Center, Nashville's first enclosed mall, was under construction when this sign advertised space for lease. Harveys, Penneys and Woolco department stores were already under contract. 3 x 4 in.
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...
The Holiday Inn on James Robertson Parkway at 8th Avenue North opened in January of 1960. The one million dollar, one hundred unit hotel was north of the Tennessee State Capitol building. 3 x 4 in.
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon pertains to the growth of the Federal bureaucracy. The cartoon shows a man with tree pruners in...
Wharton School was named for Arthur Dickson Wharton who served as principal and professor at various Nashville schools. According to Annual Reports of the Public Schools of Nashville, Tennessee, Wharton school had been occupied for one year at the...
Opened in January of 1940, Carter-Lawrence Elementary was a combination of two previously separate schools. Carter Elementary, containing grades one through six, was located just north of the present site on 12th Avenue South. Lawrence Elementary,...
A postcard of Kirkland Hall, the building built to replace Vanderbilt's Main Building that burned in 1905. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail...
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 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...
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 page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The drawing...
8; 21; 20.0x40.0; 395; I; 12/03/1847; No markers except one bronze one which lists these:; Burton, Amelia Soule 1807-1892; Conwell, Ira 1818-1878; Conwell, Martha Soule 1821-1895; Soule, Joseph Allen. 1815-1879; Soule, Maria Van Dyke 1804-1847;...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Hoover Motor Express Softball Team. The caption reads: “Here is a softball team that should be ready to roll when it enters one of the regular leagues next week. It’s the recently...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “An attractive annual affair is the horse show sponsored by the Junior Riding Club, that will be held Friday and Saturday nights at the Tennessee State Fair Grounds, with a special children’s...
Travellers Rest gained its name from the fact of the many guests it has entertained. John Overton, afterward Justice of the Supreme Court, came from Virginia in 1793 and built a two-room log house on the site of the present building. He was one of...
Pictured: “Caldwell youngsters observe ‘scrap day in schools:’ equipped with a huckster wagon (right) belonging to one of the pupils, the students of Caldwell School today turned out one and all to get in the scrap of the neighborhood. ...
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...
Pictured: “Crowds wandered through the regimental area during the entire afternoon, and like the one shown above, they milled about, inspecting [?], mess halls, day rooms, and supply stores at will.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from...
Pictured: “Privates Arthur Young and Joseph Matheney, both of Cookeville, Battery C., showed the interested spectators how one of the 155-mm howitzers would be loaded and fired in actual combat.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from family...
Pictured: “Members of the Business and Professional Women’s Club at Clarksville, who furnished the Day Room for the boys of Battery G, are shown above with some of the officers as they visited the battery area. Left to right, the group...