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. This page...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about Mayor Thomas L. Cummings, “relaxing today at his home after the fatigue of his journey here from Florida, said that whatever the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommends as to...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about golfers in Nashville. The caption reads: “When Old Sol comes out golfers can’t be far behind … pictures above were taken at Richland Golf Club when the divot-diggers emerged in...
Based on the English Music Hall song, "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" (1912, by Harry Williams and Jack Judge) which became a favorite and famous marching song of the British Expeditionary Force at the very outbreak of World War I in August, 1914,...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, most with their backs towards the camera, gathered around a kneeling camel. One soldier appears to be mounting or dismounting the camel, assisted by a man in a turban. Morris Levine is at far right. Morris Levine...
A color postcard showing a bird's eye view of Nashville from Polk Flats. Polk Flats was an apartment building in Nashville, situated in between seventh and eighth avenues in the heart of downtown. The complex was built in the 1890s to take the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville investor John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bransford discusses the streetcar lines and how far...