A photograph of the seventh and eighth grade Nashville Youth Orchestra holding paper replicas of their instruments made at the Julia Andrews School, in the Berry Hill neighborhood off Thompson Lane. The Nashville Youth Orchestra gave the first of...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about graduates in the beauty culture school in Columbia, Tennessee. The caption reads: “Columbia, Tenn., March 1 (Spl.) Students of the NYA girls school here, which reopened at the historic...
Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
Meridian Street Methodist Church was organized in 1924 with the consolidation of two churches, McFerrin Memorial, located on Meridian Street in North Edgefield, and Alex Erwin Church located where Douglas Ave. intersects Dickerson Road. The...
An illustrated newsclipping of the front page of the 24 December 1953 Nashville Banner, showing one of the youth choirs for the Fannie Battle carol singing on Christmas Eve, a festive tradition in support of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The...
A postcard of the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College campus. This school was established in 1912 for the higher education of African American youth. Today the school is known as Tennessee State University. Forms part of the...
A postcard of Meharry Medical College located adjacent to the Fisk University campus on D.B. Todd Jr. Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The school was first organized in 1876 as the largest professional college in the world for the training of...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Helen Watson, conducted on 6 October 2007 by her daughter Edie Wear at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. ...
A postcard of the Nashville Young Men's Christian Association, an eight-story, fire proof building, located at the corner of Seventh Avenue and Union Street and Capitol boulevard in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Completed in 1912, the Y. M. C. A....
A photograph of Captain James Pierre Drouillard II, the son of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard and James Pierre Drouillard. He was born in Nashville in 1874. His great-grandfather was Anthony Wayne Van Leer, the founder of the iron works,...
A photograph of Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
A photograph of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church located at 1703 Jo Johnston Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. After this photograph was taken, the church acquired a new building at 2800 Buena Vista Pike. Both buildings are used today. The...