Sixteen excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted on 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In these clips...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the death of two men who fell from scaffolding. The caption reads: “Two men traveled the course of this white line to their death when scaffolding gave way as they chinked cracks in the...
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...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with D.J. Murphy, conducted on 29 September 2007 by his friend and band-mate Ben Elkins at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses his mother's refusal to move to...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Margaret Lambert conducted on April 30, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Away from Nashville at the time of the flood, Mary Margaret Lambert describes...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Fran Rajotte, conducted on August 26, 2011 by Luke Herbst as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Rajotte discusses her experiences during the May 2010 floods.
The complete interview is...
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 photograph of an orange and black poster saying "Don't be a Heel, mind your traffic manners", being put up on a utility pole by Traffic Inspector Hubert O. Kemp (right foreground) and (left to right) Traffic Lt. Braxton Duke, Randolph Tucker, a...