Excerpts from the reminiscences of Roy C. Avery, recorded in June 1971 by Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery and Rev. William Dixon Gray. The recording is part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Avery recalls the boredom and...
A photograph of Mrs. J.H. Matthews showing off a sampling of her Victory Garden produce and canned goods. She won fourteen ribbons at the Tennessee State Fair War Exhibition and was very active in the Victory Garden Association, demonstrating to...
A photograph of Ellen Thomas Caldwell, Milbry Keith Frazer and Ann Maddin Palmer of the Davidson County Division of the National League for Woman's Service, riding on a float in the French Day Parade. The League supported the Allied armies in...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with retired Nashville Fire Department chief Henry D. Demonbreun, conducted on 5 March 1980 by Diane Cooper as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Demonbreun...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville engineer Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 13 December 1980 by Susan Cox as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Creighton discusses the...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashvillian Annie Woodfolk Carter, conducted on 28 July 1980 by Nathaniel A. Crippens as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Carter discusses moving to...
Members of the 117th Infantry, Tennessee National Guard parade past spectators on Legislative Plaza, Nashville, 29 September 1936, as part of the 30th Division reunion. One of the onlookers in foreground holds a large American flag on a flagpole....
Based on the English Music Hall song, "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" (1912, by Harry Williams and Jack Judge) which became a favorite and famous marching song of the British Expeditionary Force at the very outbreak of World War I in August, 1914,...
A photograph of six World War I soldiers standing in front of a tent in the railroad gulch, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1918. Forms part of the Nashville Room Historic Photographs Collection. 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...
The Armistice Day Parade in downtown Nashville, Tennessee on March 18, 1941. The ceremonies and parades were in commemoration of the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of...