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A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “The Rhythm Band of the Rice Kindergarten and Primary School gave a program recently at the Hobson Methodist Church for the William B. Bate Chapter, U. D. C. and for the beginners’...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a tea given at Acklen Hall, Ward-Belmont College, by members of the Housewives’ League. Pictured left to right, seated “Mrs. W. P. Cooper; standing, Mrs. Arch Trawick, Mrs. J. J....
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about an event of the Housewives’ League. The caption tells of “the annual January luncheon to be sponsored by the Housewives’ League on Friday, January 12, at the Hermitage Hotel. Judge...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “These formidable-looking Army planes, above, swooped down from the sky over Nashville to take on more gas and oil at Berry Field before striking out for McComb, Miss., on their way to Uncle...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A photograph of "The Business and Professional Women's Club of the Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA, in cooperation with the local USO, Friday night opened what is planned to be a series of camp show entertainments for airmen at Sewart Air Force...
A photograph of a residential street in the Hillsboro/Belmont area during the record breaking snow and ice storm of 1951. Bone chilling weather brought sub-zero temperatures to most of Tennessee during a winter storm spanning January 31st through...
A photograph of Captain James Pierre Drouillard II, the son of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard and James Pierre Drouillard. He was born in Nashville in 1874. His great-grandfather was Anthony Wayne Van Leer, the founder of the iron works,...
A photograph of Central Church of Christ located at 145 Fifth Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1925 with a congregation of only 47 members. Membership today now exceeds 1,200. Early works of the church ranged from general...
A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
A photograph of leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaving the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on May 23, 1967. They were attending a trial of a suit...
A photograph of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Guy Carawan of the Highlander Folk School at a mass meeting at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, following the bombing of attorney Z. Alexander...
A photograph of Stokely Carmichael at the 1967 IMPACT Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 8, 1967. Carmichael's 1967 appearance at Vanderbilt University would be cited as "the cause of significant controversy throughout...
A photograph of student demonstrators, in front of the previously segregated Post House Restaurant located inside the Greyhound Bus Terminal, 6th Avenue and Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 3, 1960. Led by Student Nonviolent...
A photograph of the 1946 faculty of Fisk University, standing in front of Fisk University Memorial Chapel. Pictured left to right are John Wesley Work III, Harold Smith, Rev. William J. Faulkner, Theodore Yoder, Rev. Lyman Cady, Mayme U. Foster,...
A photograph of the demolition of the Maxwell House Hotel in 1962, after it was gutted by fire. The five story hotel was begun by John Overton in 1859, but the Civil War delayed its completion. It was used for barracks for both Union soldiers and...
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...
A photograph of the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This five-story hotel was begun by John Overton in 1859, but the Civil War delayed its completion. It was used for barracks for both Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners...