An invitation from Governor Prentice Cooper, Judge Litton Hickman, and Mayor Thomas L. Cummings, to the formal dedication of the Nashville division of Vultee Aircraft Inc., to take place on May 4th, 1941. The Vultee logo accompanies the state flag...
A postcard of the Union Bus Terminal located at 517 Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the latter part of the 1930s, this bus terminal exemplified the art deco architecture style of the time period. According to city...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted May 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to 1975 and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted on 16 April 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted in May 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to 1975...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted in May 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to 1975...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Captain Pleas A. Smith, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on the 10th of November, 1841, and was raised on the "Ewing Farm" six miles south of Nashville. At...
Country music singer Roy Acuff, pictured with Mayor Beverly Briley. Roy Claxton Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee in 1903. He was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 and was a...
A postcard of Ward-Belmont, showing an academic building and Pembroke Hall in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing...
A postcard of Ward-Belmont College. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary, (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing school. The school was located on the grounds of former Acklen...
A postcard of the North front of Ward-Belmont college, overlooking the city of Nashville. In 1913, Belmont College, (1890) and Ward Seminary, (1865), were consolidated, forming the Ward-Belmont College, a prestigious women's finishing school. The...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox (1910-1985), the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This caricature relates to the city and county governments' finding a practical solution in...