A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “three pickets kept vigil before the Andrew Jackson hotel today after 185 employees walked out on strike.” The Andrew Jackson hotel opened in August of 1924 on the east side of Memorial...
A gala opening of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
A photograph made at Du Pont's rayon plant in Old Hickory, Tennessee. Employees pose with a sign giving the latest statistics for their safety records. They anticipated being given the title of "The World's Safest Plant" at midnight that day. ...
A photograph of Councilman Charles R. Bramwell with unidentified city official and city worker beneath Nashville City limit sign. By this time, large portions of Davidson County had been annexed by the City of Nashville. The day this photo was...
A photograph of Mayor Ben West speaking to workers of the Nashville Transit Authority about the City's annexation campaign. By this time, large portions of Davidson County had been annexed by the City of Nashville. The day this photo was taken,...
A photograph of picketers holding the Nashville Banner newspaper's morning extra announcing the settlement of the 57-day-old strike of Louisville & Nashville and Nashville Chattanooga & Saint Louis railway workers. They were picketing at Eleventh...
A photograph showing young people greeting the arrival of the Nashville Public Library bookmobile, circa July, 1941, at Stewart's Cash Grocery in Davidson County, Tennessee. Mrs. Frances Parkes and Mrs. Leah Rose, employees of the Nashville Public...
A postcard of the Confederate Soldiers' Home. The Confederate Soldiers' Home was built on the original Hermitage properties in 1892 and served as a retirement home for civil war soldiers. On land southwest of the Hermitage mansion, the soldiers'...
An elderly Edward Bushrod Stahlman, with grey hair and a receding hairline, seated in a wooden chair and holding a newspaper in his right hand. He is wearing a grey suit with a vest, tie, and collared shirt. Born in 1843 in Germany, Edward...
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...
An exterior view of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
An exterior view of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
An exterior view of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1973. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
An older man, seated, with grey hair, wearing a dark business suit, white shirt, and red tie. Subject of portrait unknown, although it may be Representative, Senator, Secretary of State, "Father of the United Nations," and 1945 Nobel Peace...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. In the foreground, Chief Justice Earl Warren and another judge look at a "No Prayer Decree" and look out the...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. The cartoon compares the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations in regards to the increase of new employees in the...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This particular cartoon was probably created during his eleven-year career with the Memphis Commercial...
Based on a 1903 gospel version by Reverend Charles Tindley of Philadelphia, and in 1946, the song for striking employees of the American Tobacco Company, "We Shall Overcome" spread through the country as an anthem for southern African American...
Col. Joel A. Battle in his later years, with a long grey beard and mustache, wearing a dark suit. The frame does not appear to be original and had work done to it in 2003. Joel A. Battle was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, 19 September...