Pictured: Students of East Nashville Junior High School, with their teacher, at their scrap collection, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw materials...
Pictured: Young school children standing at their scrap collection in a yard beside an unidentified school in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. A mule-drawn wagon is pictured with a scrap load. During World War II Americans were active with scrap...
Pictured: Young boys and women standing beside a scrap collection at an unidentified rural Middle Tennessee location, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging...
Pictured: Children and a wagon at their scrap collection in an unidentified rural area of Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
Pictured: Young boys and women standing beside a scrap collection at an unidentified rural location in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were...
Pictured: Young students posing with their scrap collection at an unidentified school in Middle Tennessee, circa 1942. During World War II Americans were active with scrap drives to help the war effort. Local communities were salvaging raw...
A photograph of the buildings at 200 and 210 Second Avenue North, after they were gutted by fire on October 12, 1985. This view is from the southwest, across Second Avenue and Church Street. The buildings had been connected for some time and had...
A photograph of the buildings at 200 and 210 Second Avenue North, after they were gutted by fire on October 12, 1985. This view is from the west, across Second Avenue. The buildings had been connected for some time and had been the site of a...
A photograph of the Washington Manufacturing Company building at 200 and 210 Second Avenue North, after it was gutted by fire on October 12, 1985. The building occupied two addresses and may at one time have been two separate buildings. At the time...
A photograph of Acklen Hall, home of Joseph Hayes Acklen (1850-1938), on Fairmont Street, Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the 1890s, this Victorian-style home was the centerpiece of one of Nashville's first gated communities, Acklen Park. Also...
Pamphlet of the history of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee. The pamphlet tells of Highlander's origins, history, programs, administration, and support. In 1932, Myles Horton, a native Tennessean educated at Cumberland University...
Based on a 1903 gospel version by Reverend Charles Tindley of Philadelphia, and in 1946, the song for striking employees of the American Tobacco Company, "We Shall Overcome" spread through the country as an anthem for southern African American...
A photograph of the Romanesque building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee that housed the Vanderbilt Law Department and part of the Vanderbilt School of Dentistry in the late 1800's and early 1900's. By 1919, an addition was...
A color postcard of the Jefferson Street Bridge on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, showing its metal truss design. No longer extant, the bridge was demolished in 1990 to make way for a new Jefferson Street Bridge that could handle...
A photograph of the old Elks Lodge no. 72, located at 310 6th Avenue North, bordered by Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The lodge was home to the Elks, beginning in 1904, serving numerous community functions and charity projects...
A postcard of the Jewish Cemetery gate at 18th and Clay Streets, Nashville, Tennessee. The archway above the gate has the words "Temple Cemetery" chiseled in stone. Forms part of the Nashville Room Postcard Collection. 1 postcard : col. ; 3.5 x...
A color postcard of buildings on the campus of the George Peabody College for Teachers, circa the 1930s. The six buildings depicted on the postcard include the Library, West Dormitory, Social-Religious Building, Jesup Psychological Laboratory,...
A color postcard of the Dutch Mill in Shelby Park, Nashville, Tennessee. This windmill structure, no longer extant, once stood on the landscape of Shelby Park, in East Nashville, near the Cumberland River. In 1909, Shelby Park was acquired by the...
A color postcard view down Church Street to the Independent Life Building at Fourth Avenue, in Nashville, Tennessee. An additional title on the card reads "Nashville, the Powder City of the World." Forms part of the Nashville Room Postcard...
A color postcard of Lower Broad Street (now Broadway), near the Ryman Auditorium, where country music started in Nashville and country music stars were often seen prior to performances. The street has some of the oldest buildings in town and is a...