A Nashville Police Officer directs traffic. Along the north side of Broad Street, Hume Fogg High School and the Masonic Building can be seen, and the Customs House and First Baptist Church are visible along the south side of the street. 35 mm
The Nashville Chair Company relocated at 309 South First Street in East Nashville about 1925 from the Public Square. The company was in business at this location through the mid 1990's. This building was demolished to make way for the Adelphia...
A photograph of New Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, formerly known as First United Brethren Church, located at 1700 Ninth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1904 as indicated on the cornerstone. The foundation...
Lipscomb Elementary opened in South Nashville in 1907. Before the school was built, the property held Fairfield Plantation. Following the plantation was a convent where it is thought the first Lipscomb classes may have been held. The school was...
A photograph of Strother's Meeting Center located on the southeast section of the Scarritt-Bennett Center campus. This log cabin church was the meeting place for the first Methodist conference in Middle Tennessee. That first conference took place...
A photograph of Vine Glenn Missionary Baptist Church located at 217 Joyner Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone, this church was rebuilt in 1928 under the name Vine Glen First Baptist Church. The current name is Vine Glenn...
North Edgefield Baptist Church was organized in 1886. The congregation dedicated this building at the corner of Treutland and Meridian Streets in 1892. The first pastor was Thadius T. Thompson. In the mid 1970's the congregation at North...
A photograph of Woodland Street Presbyterian Church located at 211 North Eleventh Street in the East Nashville neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Woodland Presbyterian Church was organized in 1858 as the First Presbyterian Church of Edgefield...
A postcard of an aerial view of downtown Nashville in 1912. Identifiable buildings include the State Capitol, Polk-Wautauga (sic) Apartments, Hermitage Hotel, Stahlman Building, First National Bank, Methodist Publishing House, and the Custom House...
Martin MB-2 Bomber at Blackwood Field in 1924. Blackwood Field was the first home of the 105th Aero Squadron stationed in Nashville. The 105th, originally named the First Squadron, Tennessee National Guard,used this field until 1927.
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights movement participant King M. Hollands, conducted on 28 June 2006 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Hollands was one of the first students to...
Mary Frances "Fannie" Battle in her later years, with grey hair, light blue or grey eyes, and wearing glasses and a white shirt. Mary Francis "Fannie" Battle (1842-1924) was a Nashville humanitarian and social worker who was known during her...
A postcard of five churches of different denominations located in downtown Nashville. In the upper left is McKendree Methodist Church. In the lower left is the Cathedral of the Incarnation. In the center is First Baptist Church. In the upper...
A carte-de-visite studio portrait of William A. Eichbaum. Eichbaum was born in 1787 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of German immigrants. He immigrated to the United States around 1820, and came to Nashville, Tennessee around 1821. He married Catherine...
A skyline view of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, photographed from South Nashville looking northwest, circa August 1950. Several buildings and landmarks are visible in this photograph, such as the Tennessee State Capitol, Bennie Dillon Building...
A photograph of E. Gray Smith, Packard dealership, located at 2400 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. E. Gray Smith was a longtime Nashville auto dealer whose father was one of the first local car dealers starting around 1902. In this view 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 postcard of Nashville's City Hospital (later known as Nashville General Hospital, 72 Hermitage Avenue) as it appeared circa 1913. This stately edifice was designed by Thompson & Gibel, Architects. It was the first city-owned and operated...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Captain Pleas A. Smith, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on the 10th of November, 1841, and was raised on the "Ewing Farm" six miles south of Nashville. At...
A photograph of the grand opening of the million-dollar Tennessee Theatre (built on the first floor of the 1930's Sudekum building) on February 28, 1952, featured appearances by state and local politicians, celebrities and the cast of the movie...