A 1956 shopping and visitors map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The streets are labeled with address numbers and building names. A straight listing of prominent buildings and stores by category is also included on the lower portion of the...
A photograph of Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios, formerly Church of the Advent, an Episcopal church located at 1200 Seventeenth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was formed in 1857 and the church building was erected in...
A photograph of the Nashville Ramblers basketball team, 1922-23. The Y.M.C.A. Ramblers were basketball competitors and won the championships several times in the early 20th century. The Nashville Ramblers were a city rival of Vanderbilt. Forms part...
A photograph of the YMCA Community Action Project building located at 1021 Russell Street in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. This structure was originally built as Russell Street Presbyterian Church in about 1910 and has...
A postcard of Capitol Boulevard looking north towards the Tennessee State Capitol sometime between 1916 and 1930. YMCA signage is visible on the left side of the street, while Knickerbocker Theater signage is identifiable on the right side. Cars...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with George Boyles, conducted on 20 July 1988 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses the construction of several colleges in Nashville during the period 1910-1930, including Peabody College, Scarritt...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Adolpho A. Birch, conducted on 22 June 2005 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Birch discusses the...
Mayor Ben West and County Judge Beverly Briley with several government and military officials at the Civil Defense air raid control center at the Nashville YMCA in March 1954. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 5...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, most with their backs towards the camera, gathered around a kneeling camel. One soldier appears to be mounting or dismounting the camel, assisted by a man in a turban. Morris Levine is at far right. Morris Levine...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, reading from the Torah at a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) service in Karachi, India during World War II. In 1943 (Hebrew year 5704), the holiday began at sundown on Wednesday, September 29 and continued through...
Photograph of unidentified African-American military band during World War II, probably taken at or near Karachi Air Base in India (now in Pakistan). Photograph probably taken by Morris Levine. Morris Levine was born on Dec. 8, 1917 in Nashville,...