A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...
A photograph of a chimney amid the ruins of Lesli Bills’s home in Pennington Bend after flooding caused an explosion during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.Lesli Bills and her friend Billy Heldenberg were rescued by a man on a jetski shortly...
A photograph of a horse being loaded into a van for a trip to the Kentucky Derby. This caption accompanied the photo in the Nashville Banner Newspaper on April 8, 1936: "Marcellus Frost's Pop Hour is shown just before being shipped to Louisville to...
A photograph of a large crowd of people viewing Harveys Department Store's nativity scene in Centennial Park. This article appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper with similar photographs on December 3, 1956: "Nashvillians by the thousands took...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
A photograph of contractors working to rebuild Lesli Bills’s Pennington Bend home after flooding caused a gas explosion during the May 2010 flood. Lesli Bills and her friend Billy Heldenberg were rescued by a man on a jetski shortly before...
A photograph of crowd of onlookers who thronged Church Street watching the arrival of movie stars and local VIPS at the gala opening of the Tennessee Theatre February 28, 1952 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Outside activities included broadcasts...
A photograph of debris in the River Plantation neighborhood of Bellevue after the May 2010 flood. The photo was taken before a Harpeth River Watershed Association cleanup, which took place December 18, 2010.
Photo courtesy of Harpeth River...
A photograph of King Temple Church of God in Christ. The survey indicates that this church is located at 1301 Lischey Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee; however, all city directories list the address as being 1310 Lischey Avenue. The cornerstone...
A photograph of Lee and Amanda DeForest’s home in Madison before and after the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of Lesli Bills’s car after flooding caused an explosion in her Pennington Bend home during the May 2010 flood in Nashville. Lesli Bills and her friend Billy Heldenberg were rescued by a man on a jetski shortly before Lesli's home...
A photograph of Mrs. Miller G. Kimbrough, chairman for the Fannie Battle Day Home Christmas Eve carol choirs, seen with her son, Miller, Jr., who is having "visions of sugar plums" as his mother reads "The Night Before Christmas." This photograph...
A photograph of New Bethel Baptist Church located at 1080 Old Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The congregation organized in 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, six miles North of Nashville on White's Creek Pike. The...
A photograph of Printer's Alley, located between Church and Union Streets and Third and Fourth Avenues, in Nashville, Tennessee, as it appeared circa September 1973. Pictured are some of the popular nightlife places in the alley: The Brass Rail...
A photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins with police officers before a demonstration, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 1963. Reverend Rollins served with the National Committee of Black Churchmen and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
A photograph of Riverside Drive Church of Christ located at 1530 Riverside Drive in Nashville, Tennessee. This Christian congregation was founded in 1937 and construction on the church building began that same year. Building was delayed due to...
A photograph of Security Pawn, a pawnshop located at 3025 Nolensville Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly Fourth Avenue Church of Christ, this building was erected in the 1930s. The church later changed its name to Nolensville Road Church of...
A photograph of the BMG Entertainment building located at 1400 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. The historic castle-like structure was built in 1916 by the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order that cared for thousands of...
A photograph of the First Baptist Church located in downtown Nashville at the northeast corner of 7th Avenue and Broadway. The First Baptist Church was originally organized in the year 1820. Members met for services in the Davidson County...