A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...
Pictured: “From Columbia, Tenn., came Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilson, shown above with their son, Hammond Wilson, Battery A. Joe and Jane Wilson, brother and sister of Private Wilson, had a big time on this, their first visit to an Army training...
Pictured: “Private Roy Thompson of Nashville, Headquarters Battery, Second Battalion, who not able to take part in the outdoor program of the day because of hand injuries which confined him to the camp hospital, but that didn’t mean that his...
Doug Berry and Burkley Allen of Sister Cities present commemorative “Spirit of Nashville” flood relief posters to Dr. Lutz Trümper, the mayor of Magdeburg, Germany, Nashville’s sister city, in October of 2010. Citizens of Magdeburg organized...
A photograph of Vasso and Hermes Pan, sister and brother who were visiting Nashville. An article titled "Noted Hollywood Dance Director Visits Nashville," ran in the 10 February 1939 edition of the Nashville Banner newspaper. "Hermes Pan, native...
Jazz group Sax’n Anhalt performs at a flood relief concert in Johanniskirche organized by Nashville’s sister city Magdeburg, Germany in May of 2010. The concert raised over $6,000.
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Jazz group Sax’n Anhalt performs outside the Johanniskirche at a flood relief concert organized by Nashville’s sister city Magdeburg, Germany in May of 2010. The concert raised over $6,000 in donations for flood relief in Nashville.
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An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Marion R. Jenkins and Sharon Y. Parrish, conducted on 15 September 2007 by their sister, Brenda P. Wynn, at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room...
Anne Elizabeth Battle as an infant, wearing a gold necklace. Born in 1907, Anne Elizabeth Battle was the daughter of Alfred Blackman and Blanche Goodall Battle, the sister of Mary Francis Battle Perry, and the great-niece of Mary Frances "Fannie"...
John Berrien Lindsley in late middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair and full beard and mustache, wearing a grey suit. Nineteenth-century Nashville educator, physician, minister, and author John Berrien Lindsley was born in New Jersey in 1822. His...
Mary Frances Battle Perry as a young girl, in a white dress with ruffles and a large white bow in her hair. Born in 1897, Mary Frances Battle Perry was the daughter of Alfred Blackman and Blanche Goodall Battle, the sister of Anne Elizabeth...
A photograph of pupils and faculty from the Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on...
Pictured: “Assumption School aids county scrap drive: students at the Assumption School, 1227 Seventh Avenue, North, recent entry in the Banner scrap contest, are hard at work to win one of the War Bond prizes being offered. A group of the...
Sister Cities board members Doug Berry and Burkley Allen present a flood relief check, from donations gathered at a concert in Nashville’s sister city Magdeburg, Germany, to Mayor Karl Dean and Executive Director of Hands on Nashville Brian...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Nora S. Grasser, conducted on 10 October 2007 by her sister Mary Grace Schulz at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
A photograph of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church located at 1700 Heiman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was erected in 1932 and founded as a mission and a school. The school was one of two Catholic institutions opened by Sister...
Greeting card from Susie Agee, Edward O'Connor's sister, sent to him sometime during World War II. She writes a personal note to "Bud" on the back of the card, telling Edward that her husband, Malcolm, "really did enjoy reading about all those...