A photograph of "some of the larger number of factory workers who participated in the mile-long parade, which was one of the main features." This photo and text appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper with article titled: "Over 5,000 Hail TVA at...
A photograph of the Nashville Public Library bookmobile featured in the Christmas parade of 1955. The bookmobile service in Davidson County, Tennessee originally began in the 1940's, when the State Library Project furnished a bookmobile which made...
A photograph of three-time Olympic gold medal winner Wilma Rudolph and her parents as they rode in a parade after leading the Tennessee A & I University track team to victory in Rome. Rudolph agreed to participate only if the event was...
A photograph of Ellen Thomas Caldwell, Milbry Keith Frazer and Ann Maddin Palmer of the Davidson County Division of the National League for Woman's Service, riding on a float in the French Day Parade. The League supported the Allied armies in...
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 recounts a story about a Barnum...
A program from the Ninth Annual Southeastern Regional Ballet Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. The show ran from April 24-26, 1964. The program contains a list of performing companies, advertisements for local businesses, performance credits,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Margaret Wright, conducted on 30 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Wright describes the Flower Parade on Kate Kirkman Day at the close of...