A photograph of Arlington United Methodist Church located at 1360 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was started as a Sunday school for neighborhood children in 1873. Later that year children and adults began meeting for...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the state Capitol...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the County Jail....
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the Tennessee...
A photograph of some of the Fannie Battle children at the 1950 Christmas dinner at the Fannie Battle Day Home. The children attending the party numbered fifty, some of them seen in the photograph opening their favors, which were red Santa Claus...
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 photograph of crowd of onlookers who thronged Church Street watching the arrival of movie stars and local VIPS at the gala opening of the Tennessee Theatre February 28, 1952 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Outside activities included broadcasts...
A photograph of Edgefield Baptist Church located at 700 Russell Street in the historic neighborhood of Edgefield in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was first organized in 1867 with thirty-one members. Construction on this church began in...
Pictured: The sturdy “Edgefield” ferry with an unidentified group of people along the Cumberland River. Ferries were an important part of Davidson County Tennessee river history. The ferry was started in 1871 by Joseph and Theodore Clees....
A photograph of Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church located at 1421 Twenty-first Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier city directories list the address as 1417 Twenty-first Avenue. The congregation was founded in 1934, the same year the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
A postcard featuring two Nashville scenes. The top section is of the Parthenon in Centennial Park. The view shows the annual Christmas display which attracted thousands of visitors each year from 1954 to 1967. In 1968 the oversized nativity...
A snapshot of Louisiana politician Huey P. Long addressing the football stadium audience at the Vanderbilt - Louisiana State University game in Nashville on 27 October 1934. This football game with the Vanderbilt Commodores occurred soon after the...
A photograph of Inglewood Baptist Church located at 3901 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was established in 1923 and began meeting in a small home on Shelton Avenue. In the late 1920s the congregation began meeting on...
A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During the...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...