A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, William Williamson, to his brother, Peter J. Williamson, during the Civil War. In 1862 Peter J. Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st...
A piece of commercial advertising correspondence created by Edgar M. Foster, business manager of the Nashville Banner from 1891 to at least 1915. In this letter, Foster urges advertisers to consider placing ads with the Nashville Banner because of...
An oral history interview with Salynn McCollum, conducted on 29 June 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Salynn McCollum was one of the Nashville students who participated in the...
A photograph of puppeteer and stage designer Tom Tichenor at the Nashville Public Library's Children's Division storytelling display on July 22, 1963. Tichenor began his career as a puppeteer when he was an elementary school student at Tarbox...
A photograph of Tom Tichenor and marionette (string) puppeteers Mark Ketterson and Emma Hayes Wade (pictured left to right), performing in the Children's Division of the Nashville Public Library, circa 1973. Tom Tichenor began his career as a...
A postcard of the WSM radio tower, advertising "America's tallest radio tower at 878 feet, standing 323 taller than the Washington Monument." The WSM station began in 1925 as the official radio station of the National Life and Accident Insurance...