A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The 12-story, 250-room hotel named for Sam Davis, the Confederate hero, opened on Friday, 23 December 1927. The structure...
A photograph of the Scarritt College for Christian Workers during a winter snow, Nashville, Tennessee, February 21, 1929. The verso cites the "Scarritt School of Religion." Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt...
A photograph of Sgt. K. C. Henry of Lafayette, Tenn. who prepares to take down the Tennessee state flag from its makeshift but sturdy flagpole at a campsite in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield. The campsite, nicknamed "Hotel California"...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist, during the Vietnam War (1961-1975). This is a caricature of U. S. Vietnam commitments, as shown in the image of a small tattered flag and a man's...
A photograph of a damaged church on the corner of Antioch Pike and Goodwin Road in Antioch during the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
Opened on Thanksgiving Eve of 1953 and displayed yearly during the Christmas season, the nativity scene at Centennial Park was a gift to the city of Nashville given by Fred Harvey. It was created by sculptor Guido Rabacini and executed by the...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, reading letters in front of their tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898.
The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the...
An 1898 photograph of some of the members of Co. F. of 1st Tennessee Volunteers when in line getting their dinner at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May,...
A photograph of St. Mary's Catholic Church located at 330 Fifth Avenue North in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. St. Mary's Catholic Church, the first Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Tennessee, was designed by William Strickland, architect for the...
A photograph of St. Patrick Catholic Church located at 1219 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1890 to serve the mainly Irish neighborhood, and so was named after St. Patrick. The red brick structure was...
A photograph of staff with cases of bottled water during the May 2010 flood in Nashville. The Office of Emergency Management distributed 13.2 million bottles of drinking water at 6 locations from May 3 to May 28 with help from Hands on Nashville,...
A photograph of cases of bottled water during the May 2010 flood in Nashville. The Office of Emergency Management distributed 13.2 million bottles of drinking water at 6 locations from May 3 to May 28 with help from Hands on Nashville, Metro Health...
A photograph of steps leading down to the Cumberland River in Lock Two Park in Pennington Bend during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a student folk dance. The caption reads: “With Parent-Teacher Association groups everywhere observing Founders’ Day at their February meetings, the local associations have cooperated by...
A photograph of a submerged car on Second Avenue South in downtown Nashville during the May 2010 flood, taken from the Shelby Street Bridge.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
Submerged cars in the Pennington Bend neighborhood during the May 2010 Nashville flood.Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of the submerged Demonbreum’s Cave historical marker by the downtown Nashville riverfront during the May 2010 flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A photograph of the Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter that brought supplies to the Davenports and their neighborhood during the May 2010 flood when their neighborhood in Ashland City was surrounded by water.
Forms part of the Nashville Room...
A photograph of the Tennessee National Guard building and truck at Nashville Municipal Airport with signage saying “Join the new Tennessee National Guard, Earn, Learn, Serve.” The National Guard continued to be based at the Nashville Airport...