Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leaders Guy and Candie Carawan on 17 January 2003 by Kathy Bennett as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Candie and Guy Carawan discuss Candie's parents' reaction to her...
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...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks over a section of historic North Nashville, about...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “Here’s what downtown Nashvillians saw marching down Church Street just before noon today--Manager Gilbert and his victorious Vols returning from a three-game triumph over the Atlanta...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “Roger Phillips, WSIX announcer of the Nashville Vols games in the Southern League, is shown in an interview with Connie Mack, veteran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “The Rhythm Band of the Rice Kindergarten and Primary School gave a program recently at the Hobson Methodist Church for the William B. Bate Chapter, U. D. C. and for the beginners’...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “these Nashville youngsters are air-minded, and the March wind can’t get too strong for them. In the picture, made in Elmington Park yesterday afternoon are Carolyn Mae Norman, daughter...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “three pickets kept vigil before the Andrew Jackson hotel today after 185 employees walked out on strike.” The Andrew Jackson hotel opened in August of 1924 on the east side of Memorial...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a banquet related to Spanish-American War veterans. The caption reads: “As a preliminary event for today’s reunion of Spanish-American War veterans, the above group of Spanish Daughters...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a basketball game in the tournament. The caption reads: “Leland Blackwood, West forward, shoots at the basket but misses. Felix [Ray?] not shown in the picture, got the rebound. On the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a boat built by the police maintenance department. The caption reads: “Because of recent difficulties in recovering bodies drowned in streams in the vicinity of Nashville, Chief of Police...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a buffalo fish that two men caught. The caption reads: “Believe it or not it really was THAT LONG. Seen above are Charles Edward Patton … and John W. Patton … with the 25-pound buffalo...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a Greek fraternity. The caption reads: “Kappa Phi preparatory school fraternity recently initiated a new class of freshmen, pictured at a meeting as follows: Willis Steiner, Saunders...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a musical program: “McKendree Methodist Church will be the scene Sunday evening at 7 o’clock of a musical program presented by the church choir. Besides Easter hymns, the choir composed...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a musicale at the Lewis home. The caption reads: “Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis are seen on the lawns of their home, “Singing Waters,” on Hillcrest Avenue, where the beautiful annual...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new laundry business on West End Avenue. The caption reads: “Using thousands of dollars worth of material, a new laundry is being constructed on West End Avenue. The demand for building...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new residential home construction located off Woodmont Boulevard. The caption reads: “Just one of the many new homes constructed off Woodmont Boulevard indicates that building in...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new sorority. The caption reads: “Several attractive members of the young school set who recently organized a new junior sorority, Kappa Alpha Phi, are, left to right: Jean Moss, Virginia...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a railway train wreck. The caption reads: “N. C. and St. L. freight wrecks--this picture shows a part of the pileup of freight cars when a Nashville-bound train wrecked one mile north of...
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...