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...
Announcement of a dance to be held at the close of commencement for the class of 1919. Established in 1883 as a grammar school, Pearl became a high school in the 1897 - 1898 school year. In 1919, Pearl High School was located on 16th Avenue No. at...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. A cheerful President Roosevelt is depicted walking back from a "Pearl Harbor Visit" shouldering a gun...
A photograph of "The Business and Professional Women's Club of the Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA, in cooperation with the local USO, Friday night opened what is planned to be a series of camp show entertainments for airmen at Sewart Air Force...
Pictured: Minnie Pearl (right) with an unidentified woman at the gala opening of the Tennessee Theater, February 28, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee. This palatial Art Deco movie palace was located in downtown Nashville at 527 Church Street. It...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...
Named after Alonzo Napier, brother of J.C. Napier, this original Napier school building, seen here from the side, opened mid way through the 1897-1898 school year. It was located at the corner of Robinson and Fairfield. Completion of the school...
Washington Junior High opened in September of 1928 for students in grades seven through nine. It was named for George E. Washington, a prominent Nashville educator and former principal of Pearl High School. J.A. Galloway was the school's first...
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, was organized in the 1840's when African American members of the First Baptist Church decided to start their own separate church under the leadership of Pastor Nelson Merry. The first meeting house, erected in...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...
A young Mary Hannah Johnson, shown in profile view from the right side. Her shoulders are bare and she is wearing a pearl choker. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, and an active suffragette, Mary Hannah Johnson began and developed the free...
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(Transferred from Meacham, W. F. who bought the lot from the original lot owner - Walker, John W.); 5; ---; 4; 48.0x18.0; 347; I; 07/13/1877; THE LOT IS FULL, NO MORE BURIALS ARE POSSIBLE. 1982.; Lee, A. P. 1893-1902 (Agnes Pearl); Lee, K. B....
Photograph of Cornelia Fort wearing pilot's coveralls, flying helmet, and goggles perched on top of her head, standing next to and leaning against the wing of a PT-19 training airplane in 1942. Fort was a young Nashville debutante who became a...
A gala opening of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...