The Farmers’ Market board, photographed with Mayor Briley on July 26th, 1964. Pictured from left to right are: E. L. Strasser, Sr., Sam Davis Bell, Sr., Mayor Briley, Joe W. Bush, and James Hester. Since its inception on the town square in the...
Mayor Ben West speaking at the Farmers’ Market, September, 1954. Since its inception on the town square in the early 1800’s, the Farmers’ Market has been a vital part of Nashville life. There have been several venues, for example in the...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon relates to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal strategy and governmental intervention in...
Pamphlet of the story of "Tent City," Fayette County, Tennessee, circa 1960. This pamphlet is the result of an investigation by Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers, into racial struggle and injustice in...
Replacing the Market on the Public Square, the Farmers' Market opened in the late fall of 1954. It was located between Jefferson and Jackson Streets and Sixth and Eighth Avenues North. 35 mm
A protection order granted to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Head-Quarters District of Nashville, Provost Marshal's Office on April 25, 1864. The document cites protection granted for "farm, timber, forage, stock,...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Donald Oldham, conducted on 29 September 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Cynthia Murphy at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), stating “County dairymen hear Cooper start meet.” The Tennessee Dairy Products Association met at the Andrew Jackson Hotel, Nashville, February 20th and 21st. Governor Prentice Cooper spoke to...
Pictured: “Jackson County brings in the scrap: this is an inspiring picture of what a patriotic county, in addition to sending its sons into battle, can do toward winning the war. This scene is in Gainesboro, Jackson County. Piled high against...
Pictured: “Antioch High School ‘Scrap’ for Victory: approximately 30 tons of scrap metal have already been piled up at Antioch High School by its 200 students under the direction of the Future Farmers Club and M. D. Capps sponsor. The area...
Pictured: “Part of Giles million pound scrap collection: around the borders of the Giles County courtyard at Pulaski, piled up for all to see, is a portion of the county’s 1,153,020-pound salvage collection assembled since the opening of the...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville judge John L. Draper., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Malcolm McKinney as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Draper, who served Nashville as a...
A postcard of Nashville's Union Station. The former railroad terminal opened in 1900 to serve the passenger operations of the eight railroads then providing passenger service to Nashville, Tennessee. The station is located on Broadway at Tenth...
A postcard of Nashville's Union Station. The former railroad terminal opened in 1900 to serve the passenger operations of the eight railroads then providing passenger service to Nashville, Tennessee. The station is located on Broadway at Tenth...
A postcard of Nashville's Union Station. The former railroad terminal opened in 1900 to serve the passenger operations of the eight railroads then providing passenger service to Nashville, Tennessee. The station is located on Broadway at Tenth...