Edwin W. Craig, Chairman of National Life and Accident Insurance Company, receives a resolution from Mayor Ben West on May 3rd, 1962. Craig advised L&A’s board to venture into radio as a good marketing tool, and WSM-AM radio was born. Soon, the...
A photograph of the Hippodrome arena, located across from Centennial Park at 2613 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Advertised as "the South's largest, finest roller rink," this multi-purpose facility served as a roller skating rink, ball...
A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Gerst Beer. The picture shows a couple dressed in Gay Nineties (1890s) clothes, riding in a horse drawn carriage. The banner draped upon a horse...
A styled “King Ludwig ring,” a replica made by the B. F. Stief company of Nashville, Tennessee. The B. F. Stief Jewelry Company, one of the South’s outstanding jewelry establishments, originated at the beginning of the Civil War. Pertaining...
A postcard of the Bijou Theatre located at 423 Fourth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This 1624 seat theatre was erected in 1904 on the site of a previous theatre that had burned two years prior. Events included live stage performances and...
A postcard of the James Robertson Apartment Hotel located on Seventh Avenue North and Commerce Street in downtown Nashville. Also pictured is a reproduction of Fort Nashboro, the log fort built by James Robertson, founder of Nashville, in 1779. ...
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...
A photograph of Seay-Hubbard Methodist Church located at 1116 First Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1875, this church originally began as Seay's Chapel at 1108 First Avenue South, just a few blocks away from its current location. ...
A postcard of Kirkland Hall, the building built to replace Vanderbilt's Main Building that burned in 1905. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail...
(Black); 28; 10.0x10.0; 276; III; 03/10/1865; Can't find the lot = somewhere 110' south of Oak commencing at Fred Kramer's southwest corner and running south.
A postcard of the Main Building on the Vanderbilt campus between 1898 and 1901. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail tycoon who had never even...
A postcard of the Main Building on the Vanderbilt Campus in 1901. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail tycoon who had never even visited the...
A postcard of Kirkland Hall, the building built to replace Vanderbilt's Main Building that burned in 1905. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail...
32; 10.0x20.0; 27; III; 05/29/1856; Can't find the lot--somewhere on the east side of D. F. Carter's lot--in the south side of Cherry and the west side of City Avenue extended.
297; II; 08/00/1853; Can't find--the deed was not finished--south side of Poplar and the south side of Napier's lot--possibly Ann Stothard's lot section 23 lot 15--check that.
(Transferred from Thompson, Benjamin); 28; B; 6; 22.0x10.0; 305; III; 04/05/1866; Not sure of this lot's location--122' south of Oak Avenue 22' west of the west boundary line of the Cemetery--
A photograph of the James Geddes Engine Company No. 6, a two-story architectural structure located at 629 2nd Avenue, South, in Nashville, Tennessee. This building's address at the time of the photograph was 627 2nd Avenue, South, as listed in the...
A photograph of the flooded Joe’s Crab Shack restaurant on Second Avenue South in downtown Nashville during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nashville's second-oldest Episcopal church building. This church is located at 615 Sixth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1852 as a free church, open to all people. Holy Trinity evolved...
A photograph of the Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ located at 3 Lindsley Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The building permit for this church was obtained by Robert Sharp, a Nashville architect who later worked on Hume-Fogg school. Originally...