Pictured: Young students posing with their scrap collection at an unidentified school in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
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...
Pictured: “Tom Joy School builds lofty scrap pile: the students at Tom Joy School, among the first groups to enter the Banner scrap contest, are determined to win one of the special prizes for schools, announced today, as evidenced by their...
Pictured: “Spain Avenue ‘Junior Cadets’ join scrap army: neighborhood friends on Spain Avenue have added patriotic activities to their playtime ones. This group of boys, now known as the Junior Cadets, are canvassing their neighborhood for...
Pictured: “Jackson County brings in the scrap: this is an inspiring picture of what a patriotic county, in addition to sending its sons into battle, can do toward winning the war. This scene is in Gainesboro, Jackson County. Piled high against...
Pictured: “Riding to Victory on a Water Tank: Little Floyd Edward Walker (center) age 3, although a “pre-schooler,” has joined his two older brothers, Buford Dean (left) and Jesse Lawrence (right), as top-notch scrap collectors in Jere Baxter...
Pictured: “Rosemont ‘Scrappers’ compete for Banner prize: one of the first entries in the Banner scrap contest, the pupils at Rosemont School are today hard at work to win their share of the $2,000 War Bond prizes. Seen surrounding their...
A photograph of the Christmas play and Santa Claus puppets at the Children's Division of the Nashville Public Library, circa 1954. The puppeteers in the performance, pictured from left to right, are Raymond Tichenor, Gwendolyn Seay, and Tom...
Pictured: “Scrap literally rolls in:” A few minutes after the Highland Heights Junior High School was entered in the Banner scrap contest by Principal James C. Armistead, “Colonel” Dewey Russell (second from left) of the school’s Junior...
Pictured: “No age limit on patriotism: when Jackson County started assembling scrap to enter the Banner contest just about everybody in the county took part in a mass movement of patriotism. Young and old came out to a scrap rally at Gainesboro,...
Pictured: “Treasured relics go into scrap heap: the rapidly growing salvage collection in Giles County now includes treasured relics of the War Between the States. In a ceremony held at the monument of Sam Davis on the Public Square at Pulaski,...
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...
Pictured: “Antioch High School ‘Scrap’ for Victory: approximately 30 tons of scrap metal have already been piled up at Antioch High School by its 200 students under the direction of the Future Farmers Club and M. D. Capps sponsor. The area...
Pictured: “At Triune School … students and their teacher were throwing scrap on the heap. They were Lewis Cothran, captain; Mrs. J. H. Windrow, teacher; Lucie Marlin, Doris Ann Rowlett, captain; Mrs. G. V. Arnold and Harvey Powers, captain.”...
Pictured: “Scrap weighing continues in Williamson: when trucks visited schools in Williamson County to bring in the scrap they found the principal and teachers weighing the salvage at Bethesda High School. Pictured (left to right …), with the...
Pictured: “Cameron High School aids scrap drive: students at Cameron High School, 1028 First Avenue, South, have piled up a large scrap heap on the school yard in their patriotic cooperation with the current salvage drive. L. W. Beasley serves...
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...
Pictured: “City schools make record key collection: the 100 per cent cooperation of the Junior Service Army of the Nashville Public Schools was recorded in the recent key collection drive. Shown are the nearly 3,000 pounds of keys rounded up by...
A photograph of Tom Tichenor and marionette (string) puppeteers Mark Ketterson and Emma Hayes Wade (pictured left to right), performing in the Children's Division of the Nashville Public Library, circa 1973. Tom Tichenor began his career as a...
A photograph of the buildings at 200 and 210 Second Avenue North, after they were gutted by fire on October 12, 1985. This view is from the southwest, across Second Avenue and Church Street. The buildings had been connected for some time and had...