A photograph showing a gargoyle on the stone column of the old Chamber of Commerce building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to the building's razing in the early 1970's, it housed the Vanderbilt Law Department...
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 photograph taken at the Fannie Battle Day Home, circa 14 December 1951. Pictured left to right, is Mrs. Drowota, president of the Fannie Battle Social Workers, Mrs. Corinne Pilcher, director of the home, Mrs. T. Graham Hall and Mrs. Avery...
A photograph of the Hippodrome arena, located across from Centennial Park at 2613 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Advertised as "the South's largest, finest roller rink," this multi-purpose facility served as a roller skating rink, ball...
A photograph of the Senior Class of the 1934 Y.M.C.A. Night Law School of Nashville, Tennessee. The law school operated over many decades at Nashville's Downtown Y.M.C.A. (226 7th Avenue North) from circa 1911 until 1986. It was opened by recent...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the new Elks new dining facility. The caption reads: “Over 200 Elks were present at a dinner session held at the order’s new $15,000 Teak Room and Dining Room on Sixth Avenue, North, last...
Andrew Benedict with grandchild and parents (Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bell “Buddy” Benedict III) in Mayor Ben West’s office on November 18th, 1962. Andrew Bell Benedict, Jr. was a distinguished leader of First American National Bank who held...
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...
Pictured: Henry J. Schofield, a prominent Nashville photographer, with his camera, December, 1941. The first photograph he ever had published appeared in the Tennessean newspaper, where he became a staff photographer in the 1940s after spending a...
Pictured: Henry J. Schofield, a prominent Nashville photographer, in military uniform, circa December, 1941. The first photograph he ever had published appeared in the Tennessean newspaper, where he became a staff photographer in the 1940s after...
Pictured: Henry J. Schofield, a prominent Nashville photographer, in military uniform, circa December, 1941. The first photograph he ever had published appeared in the Tennessean newspaper, where he became a staff photographer in the 1940s after...
Pictured: Henry J. Schofield, a prominent Nashville photographer, with his camera, December, 1941. The first photograph he ever had published appeared in the Tennessean newspaper, where he became a staff photographer in the 1940s after spending a...
Pictured: Henry J. Schofield, a prominent Nashville photographer, with his camera, December, 1941. The first photograph he ever had published appeared in the Tennessean newspaper, where he became a staff photographer in the 1940s after spending a...
Pictured: Henry J. Schofield, a prominent Nashville photographer, with his camera, December, 1941. The first photograph he ever had published appeared in the Tennessean newspaper, where he became a staff photographer in the 1940s after spending a...
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...