Colonel Luke Lea, surrounded by a crowd and a brass band at the town square in Lebanon, Tennessee upon his release from prison in 1936. Luke Lea (1879-1945) was born at Lealand, the family’s 1,000-acre farm on the outskirts of Nashville. He was...
Colonel Luke Lea, surrounded by a crowd and a brass band at the town square in Lebanon, Tennessee upon his release from prison in 1936. Luke Lea (1879-1945) was born at Lealand, the family’s 1,000-acre farm on the outskirts of Nashville. He was...
A calendar from 1964 advertising Otey's Center, which included a supermarket, launderette, shoe shop, and a realty company. Flem B. Otey headed the Otey Enterprises firm which was comprised of the various operations highlighted on the calendar. ...
A postcard of Fifth Avenue looking north from Church Street in downtown Nashville. Both sides of the street are lined with businesses including Castner Knott and Blach's, both department stores. Some carriages are parked on the sides of the road,...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History . Creighton discusses the Women's Building,...
This photograph by Nashville Banner photographer Bill Goodman is hand-titled "Fire engine riders" and depicts a scene in front of the Fannie Battle Day Home located at 911 Shelby Avenue in East Nashville. The horse-drawn fire wagon has a driver and...
A photograph of the Rutledge-Baxter House, located at 101 Lea Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This historic building rests on the site of "Rose Hill," the grand antebellum home of Henry and Septima Sexta Rutledge, a young couple who were members of...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel, a business property named for Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy." The twelve-story building was located at the corner of 132 Seventh Avenue North at the corner of Commerce Street in downtown Nashville,...
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 Culbert Construction Company building, located at 39 Lindsley Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, as it appeared circa 1973. This former Victorian Town House residence was remodeled by the Culbert Construction Company. The two-story...
An interior view of vendors, shoppers and stands of the City Market House in Nashville, which opened circa March 1937. The building was designed by Henry C. Hibbs, with construction by the engineering firm Foster and Creighton. Forms part of the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the death of two men who fell from scaffolding. The caption reads: “Two men traveled the course of this white line to their death when scaffolding gave way as they chinked cracks in the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a spring sale at Peoples Furniture Company. The caption reads: “An expansive remodeling including a new front with three modern display windows has just been completed by Peoples Furniture...
A photograph of the United States Post Office on Broadway, between Ninth Avenue South and Tenth Avenue South. It was designed by the Nashville architectural firm of Marr and Holman (Thomas Scott Marr and Joseph W. Holman) and constructed in 1933-34...
The Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on February 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio executives in...
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...
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 excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader James Stephen (Steve) Turner, conducted on 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History...