A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...
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...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the food stamp plan in Davidson County, Tennessee. The caption is: “When the food stamp plan began operation at 9 a.m. Thursday, the clerks in charge were busy from the first …....
A photograph of irate segregationists exchanging words with supporters of desegregation at Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Police officers escorted African American students into the school, marking the first day of...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. As John Q. Public looks on, President John F. Kennedy holds a giant pair of scissors. One blade of the...
Subdivision of Mt. Olivet Cemetery lot 161, section one, owned by Dr. D.T. McGavock. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, located on Lebanon Road, opened in 1856 and is still in operation today. 8 x 10 in.
A postcard of Nashville's City Hospital (later known as Nashville General Hospital, 72 Hermitage Avenue) as it appeared circa 1913. This stately edifice was designed by Thompson & Gibel, Architects. It was the first city-owned and operated...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Kirkwood Heights development. The caption states “the homes pictured above are part of the Kirkwood Heights developments just being completed. Many of these houses are ready for...
A typescript copy of the will of Eli Akins, of Chicago, Illinois, dated December 26th, 1902. Illustrates the first page of the document, referring to a realty lot in “G. W. Harding’s plan of lots as registered in the registers office of...
A photograph of Newsom's Mill, along the Harpeth River, near Bellevue, located a few miles southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The original grist mill was built several years earlier; this grist mill was built by Col. Joseph M. Newsom in...
An undated photograph of the interior main entrance to the Omohundro Water Filtration Plant, of the Omohundro Water Filtration Complex District in Nashville, Tennessee, located at 1400 Pumping Station Road across the Cumberland River from Shelby...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon relates to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal strategy and governmental intervention in...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. In this cartoon, a tattered, exhausted man ("U.S.") tries to run and keep his balance on a barrel ("Red Ink...