Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville engineer Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 13 December 1980 by Susan Cox as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Creighton discusses the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville judge John L. Draper., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Malcolm McKinney as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Draper, who served Nashville as a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Adolpho A. Birch, conducted on 22 June 2005 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Birch discusses the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman David Swett, Jr., conducted on 17 July 2006 by John Egerton as part of a cooperative effort between the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman David Swett, Jr., conducted on 17 July 2006 by John Egerton as part of a cooperative effort between the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Helen Watson, conducted on 6 October 2007 by her daughter Edie Wear at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. ...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with gospel recording artist Chris Wilson, conducted on 26 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Martha O'Brien at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Ednaearle Burney, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include some of Ednaearle’s losses from the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted on 25 August 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses his father discovering the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with George Boyles, conducted on 20 July 1988 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses the Nashville Conservatory of Music and some of the teachers there, including Signor Gaetano De Luca and Joseph...
A photograph of Inglewood United Methodist Church located at 3511 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the congregation was founded in 1924. The sanctuary was completed in 1939. The foundation is made of rough cut...
A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
An 1896 street map of downtown Nashville. Streets are clearly labeled. Labeled landscape features include Currey Hill, St. Cloud Hill, and the city reservoir. Some prominent buildings are also depicted, including the State Capitol, Peabody...
A two-page typewritten letter by Jessie Wallace to her mother, Mrs. C.M. (Lorine) Wallace of Ames, Iowa. Jessie grew up in Oklahoma and her family moved to Iowa during the Depression. During World War II, Jessie Wallace (later McNutt) served in...
According to the survey, this is a photograph of Progressive Sunrise Baptist Church located at 530 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The original church structure was built around 1938 on the corner of Berry and Meridian Streets, facing...
A photograph of Ransom Temple Cumberland Presbyterian Church located at 2210 Buchanan Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was formed in 1889. The church building was finished in 1968 and remodeled in 1975. The foundation is brick. ...
A photograph of Riverside Baptist Church located at 1604 Riverside Drive in Nashville, Tennessee in the East Nashville neighborhood. This church was built in 1951. The foundation is brick. The exterior walls are brick. The roof is gabled and...