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- The buds have bloomed to flowers, 1859
- During the 1800s, educated young women in Nashville often collected sheet music. When a young lady had collected enough pieces of music, her assortment was generally published as a bound volume by one of Nashville's blank book manufacturers, with...
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- Portrait of Gideon Hicks Baskette, 1925
- Gideon Hicks Baskette in late middle age, seated, with hands clasped in front of him. He is wearing a dark jacket and a white shirt. Born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1845, Gideon Hicks Baskette was educated in Murfreesboro schools. He...
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- Portrait of Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle, ca. 192-?
- Mary Frances "Fannie" Battle in her later years, with grey hair, light blue or grey eyes, and wearing glasses and a white shirt. Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle (1842-1924) was a Nashville humanitarian and social worker who was known during her...
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- Portrait of Alfred Leland Crabb, undated
- An elderly Alfred Leland Crabb, balding, with grey hair and glasses. He is wearing a jacket, vest, white shirt, and rust colored tie. Born in Kentucky in 1884, author, educator, and historian Alfred Leland Crabb was educated at Bethel College,...
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- Portrait of John Berrien Lindsley, ca. 1983
- John Berrien Lindsley in late middle age, with salt-and-pepper hair and full beard and mustache, wearing a grey suit. Nineteenth-century Nashville educator, physician, minister, and author John Berrien Lindsley was born in New Jersey in 1822. His...
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- Portrait of Francis K.W. Drury, 1965
- Francis K. W. Drury in middle age, balding, with glasses. He is wearing a blue suit. Born in New York in 1878, Francis K.W. Drury was educated at Rutgers and the University of Illinois. He held various library positions from 1899 until 1929,...
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- Nashville Public Library staff, circa 1942 January 14
- This photograph of Librarian F. K. W. Drury and staff of the Nashville Public Library, Main (originally named the Carnegie Library of Nashville) appeared in the Nashville Banner 14 January 1942 issue illustrating the article "Library Completes 40...
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- Mary Florence Drouillard, between 1890 and 1905
- A photograph of Mary Florence Kirkman Drouillard, between 1890 and 1905. She was born in Nashville on August 23, 1843, the daughter of Hugh Kirkman and Eleanora C. Van Leer. She was educated in local private schools and completed her education in...
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- Architectural view of Fanning Orphan School, Nashville, Tennessee, 1894 June
- A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...
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- Pupils and faculty from the Fanning Orphan School, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1894 June
- A photograph of pupils and faculty from the Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on...
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- Historic home residence Travellers Rest, Nashville, Tennessee, 1911
- Travellers Rest gained its name from the fact of the many guests it has entertained. John Overton, afterward Justice of the Supreme Court, came from Virginia in 1793 and built a two-room log house on the site of the present building. He was one of...
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- Highlander Folk School, circa 1940
- Pamphlet of the history of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee. The pamphlet tells of Highlander's origins, history, programs, administration, and support. In 1932, Myles Horton, a native Tennessean educated at Cumberland University...
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