A studio portrait of Rebecca Landers in Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) uniform, 26 May 1943. An inscription on the front of the photograph to her husband, Corris, reads: "Everlastingly your wife, Rebecca." A few months after this photograph...
Photograph of Cornelia Fort wearing pilot's coveralls, flying helmet, and goggles perched on top of her head, standing next to and leaning against the wing of a PT-19 training airplane in 1942. Fort was a young Nashville debutante who became a...
A photograph of a couple dressed in Easter finery relaxing in Memorial Plaza which stretched between Union Street and Charlotte Avenue, and from Sixth to Seventh Avenues facing the Tennessee State Capitol. Similar photos appeared in the Nashville...
A photograph of a woman walking East on Broadway Street in her Easter finery. In the background Union Station and Christ Church Cathedral can be seen. Similar photos appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper April 13, 1936. Forms part of the...
A photograph of a couple leaving a downtown Nashville church in their Easter finery. Similar photos appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper April 13, 1936. Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 3.25 x 4.25...
A photograph of Governor and Mrs. Hill McAlister after leaving Easter services at Vine Street Christian Church, located at 140 7th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. They are pictured with their car and chauffeur in foreground. The background...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Nashville, “which has sponsored a vocational guidance program with senior high school girls of Tennessee Industrial School for four years,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History . Creighton discusses the Women's Building,...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a semi-annual meeting of the Middle Tennessee District of the Tennessee Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. They gathered in Nashville and “among those at the...
A photograph of Lockeland Baptist Church located at 1601 Holly Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The Lockeland Baptist congregation was founded in 1903, and according to the Sacred Sites Project survey form, the main church was built in 1929. A...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds showing the Women's Building, Grandstand, and track. Located just one mile south of downtown Nashville, the fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track...
A postcard of Radnor College in Nashville, Tennessee. Radnor College was started in 1906 on a hill overlooking Nolensville Pike by Presbyterian minister Andrew Nelson Eshman. Famous for its free four-week travel program, this women's college sent...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the Tennessee...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ursula Greene, conducted on 12 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Greene discusses going to the Centennial with her boyfriend and women's...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Ursula Greene, conducted on 12 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Greene discusses women's fashion during the 1890s and explains that they...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...
The Life & Casualty Building towers over historic buildings situated along Fourth Avenue North. The west side of the street between Church and Union Streets was home to clothing and shoe stores such as Steins and Burton Chambers, both men's...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Jane Marshall, conducted on 17 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Martha O'Brien at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
An exterior view showing the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1916. This branch library opened at the southeast corner of Twelfth Avenue North and Hynes Street on February 10, 1916. It was among the four...
A photograph of E. Gray Smith, Packard dealership, located at 2400 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. E. Gray Smith was a longtime Nashville auto dealer whose father was one of the first local car dealers starting around 1902. In this view of...