A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about graduates in the beauty culture school in Columbia, Tennessee. The caption reads: “Columbia, Tenn., March 1 (Spl.) Students of the NYA girls school here, which reopened at the historic...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the food stamp plan in Davidson County, Tennessee. The caption is: “When the food stamp plan began operation at 9 a.m. Thursday, the clerks in charge were busy from the first …....
A captioned photo, from the Nashville Times (1940), about students of the Robertson Academy. The caption reads: “A novel event Friday evening will be the revue … at Robertson Academy, in which students in the school will impersonate their...
A captioned photo, from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Nashville Iris Association’s president Jesse E. Wills, “whose garden at his home on Belle Meade Boulevard always attracts a large number of visitors during Iris Week. Pictured in the...
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 page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The drawing...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The drawing...
A photograph of East End Methodist Church located at 1212 Holly Street in Nashville, Tennessee, in the East Nashville neighborhood. While the congregation was established in 1889, the current church was completed in 1907. Built of red brick, the...
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...
A photograph of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, currently located at 1307 Ireland Street in Nashville, Tennessee, but originally listed as Hopewell Baptist Church, at 918 Fourteenth Avenue North. According to the survey, the congregation was...
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 photograph of Olivet Missionary Baptist Church located at 1811 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years the church has been known as both Olivet Missionary Baptist and Olivet Baptist. The congregation is historically African...
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...
A photograph of student nurses at Nashville's General Hospital attending babies in the nursery. Student nurses were responsible for many duties including caring for newborns, surgical nursing, and working in the diet kitchen and sometimes even...
A photograph of the Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on Feb. 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio...
A photograph of the Central Church of Christ Girls' Home, located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Commerce Street in Nashville, Tennessee, prior to its razing in 1972. The Girls Home was established in 1927, by the Central Church of Christ,...
A photograph of the Eighth Avenue Church of Christ, located at 1217 Eighth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was established in 1887, and the church was built in1942 as indicated on the cornerstone. The foundation is...
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 photograph of the land where the Old Hamilton Methodist Church used to stand near Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. In its place is a historic marker which reads: "Old Hamilton Methodist Church - 1834-1987 - Established in 1834 and...
A photograph of the Tulane Hotel as it appeared circa the 1930s, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...