A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel, a business property named for Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy." The twelve-story building was located at the corner of 132 Seventh Avenue North at the corner of Commerce Street in downtown Nashville,...
A postcard of Nashville's City Hospital (later known as Nashville General Hospital, 72 Hermitage Avenue) as it appeared circa 1913. This stately edifice was designed by Thompson & Gibel, Architects. It was the first city-owned and operated...
A postcard of the tomb of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th president of the United States. Designed by William Strickland, the tomb was originally located in the garden at Polk Place, a mansion in downtown Nashville, where the former president...
A postcard of the Fourth and First National Bank, Nashville Trust Company, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1928. The verso of the postcard quotes "over sixty million dollars" in "resources." This bank was located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee at the...
A photograph of Machinery Hall at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, in whose splendid proportions and style was designed with the Parthenon as the prototype and the propylaeum gateway as a component part. This non-extant...
A photograph of the Jewish Temple, 5015 Harding Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1972. The Temple is the oldest and largest Jewish house of worship in Nashville. Congregation Ohabai Sholom was established in 1851 and was known as the Vine Street...
A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...
A postcard of St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original campus location was atop a hill at Eighth Avenue and Clay Street...
A circa 1907 postcard view of the corridor of the Conservatory of Music, St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original...
A photograph of the West End Synagogue, 3810 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 23 September 1972. Founded as Khal Kodesh Adath Israel in 1874 in downtown Nashville, the congregation changed its location and its name in 1950. This modern...
A photograph of an unidentified woman standing on the steps of the Cheekwood mansion grounds, in Nashville, Tennessee, between 1932 and 1946. The Cheekwood mansion was built in 1932 in the Colonial Revival style for Leslie and Mabel Cheek. Designed...
A postcard of the tomb of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th president of the United States. Designed by William Strickland, the tomb was originally located in the garden at Polk Place, a mansion in downtown Nashville, where the former president...
A photograph of four women in costume selling tickets to the Italian Street Fair. An article about the event appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper on October 8, 1956, citing: "Pizza, pepperoni and puppets abounded Saturday afternoon and...
A photograph of the Cavert School, located at 2500 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, circa 1996. Cavert School opened as an elementary school circa 1928. The structure is designed in the classical style and with Eakin School was one of Nashville's early...
A circa 1996 photograph of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, the handsome old estate of "Old Hickory," the seventh President of the United States. Andrew Jackson died in 1845 at the Hermitage reaching the age of 77. His burial was...
A photographic view looking towards Vanderbilt University through the archway of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky...
A photographic view looking northeast from Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a...
A photograph of Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for women...
A photograph of Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for women Christian...
A photograph of the Scarritt College for Christian Workers, circa Nov. 1927. The annotation on the verso reads: "Scarritt School of Religion, Nov. 1927." Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to...