A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the ice covering the river: “Ice floes rapidly filling the surface of the Cumberland River are shown here as they appeared today looking north from the Jefferson Street Bridge. In the...
A photograph of a flooded backyard in Pennington Bend during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses located at 1400 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. All meeting places of Jehovah's Witness congregations are called Kingdom Halls. Often they are built by area member volunteers in a...
A photograph of Bellevue residents talking together in a yard as water covers the street during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of Bellevue residents talking together in the street as water covers the rest of the neighborhood block during the May 2010 flood in Nashville.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
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 Humphreys Street United Methodist Church located at 424 Humphreys Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1929 As Humphreys Street Methodist Church. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks. The walls are...
A photograph of Pennsylvania Avenue Church of Christ located at 5411 Pennsylvania Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is made of brick in the front and concrete block in the rear. The exterior walls are made of brick that has been...
A photograph of Shelby Avenue Baptist Church located at 401 S. Eleventh Street in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the original building was erected in 1916. The church has changed names...
A photograph of St. Timothy Missionary Baptist Church located at 2830 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The building's shallow foundation is slab-on-grade. The exterior walls are made of cinder block. The roof is made of shingles. There...
A photograph of the flooded intersection of Steamboat Drive and Barksdale Harbor Drive in Pennington Bend during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of the former Gospel Chapel, now known as King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church. Historically located at 1419 Tenth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee, this church is currently listed as being at 1417 Tenth Avenue North. A new...
A photograph of the inundated parking lot of the Publix at Harpeth Village shopping center in Bellevue during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of Tulip Street United Methodist Church located at 522 Russell Street in the Edgefield Historic District in Nashville, Tennessee. The church sits at the corner of South Fifth Street, which was originally named Tulip Street in the...
A postcard of Berry Field, Nashville's Municipal Airport, circa 1942. The caption on the verso reads: "Berry Field, Nashville's Municipal Airport, was named Berry Field in honor of Colonel Harry S. Berry, State W. P. A. Administrator. The total...
A souvenir postcard of Tennessee that labels nineteen major cities within the state. Accompanying cartoon renderings depict specific items of interest for different areas of Tennessee. Some highlighted items include: The Hermitage, the Parthenon...
Advertisement for Skalowski's Confectionery Parlor, located at 217 Fifth Ave. North in downtown Nashville. Advertisement reads: "America's Handsomest Confectionery Parlor" and promotes the ice cream parlor as "Nashville's Beauty Spot" and "A...
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...
Based on the English Music Hall song, "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" (1912, by Harry Williams and Jack Judge) which became a favorite and famous marching song of the British Expeditionary Force at the very outbreak of World War I in August, 1914,...