A postcard of the statue of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt in front of Kirkland Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The university is named for shipping and rail tycoon "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was 79...
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...
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...
A snapshot of Louisiana politician Huey P. Long addressing the football stadium audience at the Vanderbilt - Louisiana State University game in Nashville on 27 October 1934. This football game with the Vanderbilt Commodores occurred soon after the...
A photographic view showing some of the Shields-Watkins field at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus and football fans attending the gridiron match between Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee on November 13, 1937. The...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Dr. W. L. Dudley, a distinguished scientist, lecturer, and head of the Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dudley was born in 1859 in Covington, Kentucky. He earned his...
A photograph of the marching bands of Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville on the Shields-Watkins field in Knoxville. The gridiron match between the rival football teams took place on November 13, 1937. Football fans from...
A photograph showing a gargoyle on the stone column of the old Chamber of Commerce building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to the building's razing in the early 1970's, it housed the Vanderbilt Law Department...
Pictured: Dinah Shore standing between two Vanderbilt students, holding a school sweater. The university official is holding a framed document; the event is a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose...
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 the Romanesque building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee that housed the Vanderbilt Law Department and part of the Vanderbilt School of Dentistry in the late 1800's and early 1900's. By 1919, an addition was...
A photograph of Davidson County Judge Beverly Briley receiving the polio vaccine at one of the special anti-polio vaccine clinics at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He is seen grinning as the nurse, Mrs. Mary Scott, prepares to inject...
Pictured: Dinah Shore with an unidentified man at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in sociology in 1938...
Pictured: Dinah Shore seated, with unidentified students and officials, on stage at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University...
Pictured: Dinah Shore seated with two students and a university official at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a...
Pictured: Dinah Shore addressing an audience at a Vanderbilt ceremony, January 23rd, 1957. American popular singer, born Francis Rose Shore, in Winchester, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a major in sociology in 1938 and...
A postcard of the Main Building at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. In an effort to create a major Southern teachers' college, the grounds and buildings of the former Peabody Normal School were donated to the George...
A postcard of the Industrial Arts building at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. In an effort to create a major Southern teachers' college, the grounds and buildings of the former Peabody Normal School were donated to...