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- Put a candle in the window, circa 1953 December 24
- An illustrated newsclipping of the front page of the 24 December 1953 Nashville Banner, showing one of the youth choirs for the Fannie Battle carol singing on Christmas Eve, a festive tradition in support of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The...
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- Minutes of the First Meeting of the Board of Magazine Censors
- Board met to establish policies and procedures. Jacob Doyle was elected Chairman and Hattye Bubis, Secretary. 11 x 17 in.
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- Declaration of Intention to Become a Naturalized Citizen
- 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.
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- Portrait of Joel Allen Battle, ca. 186-?
- Col. Joel A. Battle in his later years, with a long grey beard and mustache, wearing a dark suit. The frame does not appear to be original and had work done to it in 2003. Joel A. Battle was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, 19 September...
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- Oral history interview with John Kiser, 1978 April 10
- Excerpts from an interview with architectural historian John Kiser, conducted on 10 April 1978 by Deborah Cooney as part of the Historic Nashville Inc. Oral History project. The interview took place in John Kisers' historic home, the Hays-Kiser...
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- Portrait of Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle, ca. 192-?
- Mary Frances "Fannie" Battle in her later years, with grey hair, light blue or grey eyes, and wearing glasses and a white shirt. Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle (1842-1924) was a Nashville humanitarian and social worker who was known during her...
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- Portrait of Adeline Sanders Mosely Battle, ca. 186-?
- Mrs. Adeline Sanders Mosely Battle in middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair, light blue eyes, and wearing a dark dress. At her neck she is wearing a miniature of her husband, Col. Joel A. Battle, who served as a colonel in the Twentieth Tennessee...
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- Salvage scrap drive in Nashville and Middle Tennessee region, 1942 October
- Pictured: “Cannon balls donated: these six-inch, solid cast-iron cannon balls, Civil War relics recovered from construction work on the old National Casket Company factory, on the site now occupied by the Tennessee Central Railway Station, are to...
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- Marriage License of Preston Taylor and Georgia Gordon
- Preston Taylor, a businessman and minister, was one of Nashville's most powerful black leaders. His wife, Georgia Gordon Taylor, was one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. Georgia was among the first group of singers to tour Europe when the...
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- Original wills, Ahlum, Alvin F., 1911 February 09
- Related to the last will and testament and of Alvin F. Ahlum. Illustrates the first page of a form stating “we have examined the records and files in the office of the Surrogate of the County of New York, do find there remaining, a certain...
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- Marriage Bond 1789
- 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....
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- Tyndall Field military pass, 1944 August 24
- This is a pass for Edward E. O'Connor, Jr., who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The card was issued at the gunnery school at Tyndall Field in Panama City, Florida, on August 24, 1944. The front of the card...
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- Fire engine riders, between 1959 and 1968
- 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...
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- Carol choir, circa 1955
- This photograph, published in the Nashville Banner circa the Yuletide season of 1955, relates to a Nashville family's long and meaningful participation in the Christmas carol program of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The caption from an undated...
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- Pulchritudinous publicists, circa 1955 December 02
- Two photographs, published in a 2 December 1955 Nashville Banner newspaper feature about the carol program and Yuletide project of the Fannie Battle Social Workers, titled "Fannie Battle Carolers." The captions are "Pulchritudinous Publicists," and...
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