A photograph of the opening of Cain-Sloan Department Store's new facility. A crowd of more than 500 persons stood in the early morning chill on Church Street to hear John Sloan, president of Cain-Sloan Co., officially open the firm's new...
A photograph of the Male Quartet of the Fisk Jubilee Singers performing at Peabody College, July 26, 1948. Directed by 20-year veteran Mrs. James A. Myers, the group had recently completed their first tour of Latin America and the Caribbean,...
A photograph of the First Baptist Church located in downtown Nashville at the northeast corner of 7th Avenue and Broadway. The First Baptist Church was originally organized in the year 1820. Members met for services in the Davidson County...
A photograph of First Baptist Church East Nashville. This African American church was founded in 1866 by the Reverend Randall B. Vandavall, a slave born on March 23, 1832 at Neely's Bend. In the early years, the church was called Vandavall's...
A photograph of First Baptist Church Capitol Hill. Originally called First Colored Baptist Church, this African American church was founded by Reverend Nelson Merry in 1865. The church sprang from the First Colored Baptist Mission, a group of...
A photograph of the First Baptist Church of West Nashville located at 619 Thirty-ninth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The founding year of the congregation is 1874 and the current building was remodeled in 1958. The foundation is red...
A photograph of the Family of Faith Church located at 106 Joyner Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, the building was first used for Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, whose congregation was organized July 8, 1937 by...
A photograph of First Baptist Church of Old Hickory located at 1106 Hadley Avenue in Old Hickory, Tennessee. According to the church's current website, the First Baptist Church of Old Hickory was organized with twenty-two members in 1924. With the...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The second page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index contains a key in the upper right corner explaining the various symbols that...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the state Capitol...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the Tennessee...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several. Original building structures are depicted on...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original building structures are...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This caricature depicts President Lyndon Baines Johnson with a "Civil Rights Hop Program Dance" card in his...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks bound by the...
A photograph of Charter Commission member Harlan Dodson, circa 1962. Dodson was a lawyer in Nashville and served as a State Senator. He was appointed by Beverly Briley to both the first and second Charter Commissions. b & w; 35 mm.
A photograph, circa 1962, of an airline stewardess reading a book in the Nashville Public Library Airport Reading Room, the first branch library reading room ever to be established in a Municipal Airport. The Airport Reading Room was established...