A postcard of St. Cecelia Academy, a private, all-girls Roman Catholic high school founded in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters. This building is located in North Nashville at Eighth Avenue North and Clay Street. The original Victorian-style building...
A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...
A postcard of St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original campus location was atop a hill at Eighth Avenue and Clay Street...
A circa 1907 postcard view of the corridor of the Conservatory of Music, St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original...
A photograph of the BMG Entertainment building located at 1400 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. The historic castle-like structure was built in 1916 by the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order that cared for thousands of...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks over a section of historic North Nashville, about...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks bound by...
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...
A photograph of St. Bernard Convent and Academy, a private Catholic girls' school located on Hillsboro Road in the Green Hills neighborhood. The school was started by the Sisters of Mercy who came to Tennessee from Rhode Island to start in 1866...
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...
Joseph Thorp Elliston in his 60s, with grey hair and glasses. He is seated in a chair and is holding a walking stick or cane. Born in Virginia in 1779, Joseph Thorp Elliston was Nashville's first silversmith, jeweler, and watch and clock maker. ...
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...
A photograph of the congregation from Kayne Avenue Baptist Church standing outside. This African American church was located on Twelfth Avenue South, across from the Carter-Lawrence School. When the building burned down it was replaced by a new...
A postcard of St. Thomas Hospital located on Hayes Street at the corner of Twentieth Avenue. This hospital was established by Bishop Thomas S. Byrne, and run by the Sisters of Charity under the Roman Catholic Church. In 1974, St. Thomas opened a...
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...
Pictured: “Scrap piles grow at local schools: with competition running high in the Banner scrap contest, scrap metal collections in all parts of Davidson County were advancing by leaps and bounds. A huge salvage pile (top) is obvious evidence of...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville and Florida businessman and real estate broker Adam G. Adams, III, conducted on 4 October 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Adams...