Excerpt from an oral history interview with Laurel Creech, conducted on February 9, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Laurel Creech, the city of Nashville’s Chief Service Officer, discusses Hands on...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Thelma Sanders Hunter, conducted on February 22, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Thelma Sanders-Hunter, a Bordeaux resident, describes the support she received...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with William Lytton, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Lytton describes the support he received from church, friends and...
A photograph of a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses located at 1400 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. All meeting places of Jehovah's Witness congregations are called Kingdom Halls. Often they are built by area member volunteers in a...
A postcard of the 1908 Nashville Baseball team, known as the Nashville Baseball Club managed by William "Bill" Bernhard. They were officially named the Nashville Volunteers in 1908 for the state's nickname, "The Volunteer State." In 1908, this...
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 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 of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, reading letters in front of their tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898.
The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the...
A studio portrait (seated) of a Nashville soldier, Private John Knopp of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, 1898 at Camp Merritt, California. The card index identifies the soldier as "John Knopp," while the Knopp surname referenced in the regimental...
An 1898 photograph of some of the members of Co. F. of 1st Tennessee Volunteers when in line getting their dinner at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May,...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...
A photograph of volunteers assisting with a rescue in Bellevue during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Photo text reads: “Volunteers came from 5-10 mi away. I recognize only 2 or 3 neighbors in this photo. Lord knows where the boat came from. We...
A line of volunteers sandbag by the Metro Center levee during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of volunteers sandbagging by the Metro Center levee during the May 2010 Flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of volunteers gathering debris during a river cleanup with the Harpeth River Watershed Association after the May 2010 flood. Photo provided courtesy of the Harpeth River Watershed Association. Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood...
A photograph of volunteers loading debris into a boat during a river cleanup with the Harpeth River Watershed Association after the May 2010 flood.
A photograph of Michael Cain pulling a canoe of debris with his kayak during a river cleanup with...
A photograph of volunteers in canoes picking up trash from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old Hickory Boulevard near the Carmike Bellevue 8 Cinemas, after the May 2010 flood. The volunteers were part of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance group...
A photograph of a volunteer with a canoe full of debris from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old Hickory Boulevard near the Carmike Bellevue 8 Cinemas, after the May 2010 flood. The volunteers were part of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance group...
A photograph of volunteers gathering bags full of debris from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old Hickory Boulevard near the Carmike Bellevue 8 Cinemas, after the May 2010 flood. The volunteers were part of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance...
A group photograph of volunteers from the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance during a cleanup in Bellevue with the Harpeth River Watershed Association after the May 2010 flood. The group collected debris from a lake in Bellevue, located off Old...