A photgraph of Nashville Mayor Ben West giving a presentation on annexation, 1951. The residents of the subdivision known as Urbandale signed a petition to be annexed by the city in October of 1951. The photo shows Mayor West giving a speech...
A photograph of Mayor Ben West giving an insurance report to WLAC-TV News station on May 23, 1961. The other officials and cameramen pictured with Mayor West are unidentified. b & w; 3 x 4 in.
A photograph of Mayor Ben West giving an insurance report to WLAC-TV News station on May 23, 1961. The other officials pictured with Mayor West are unidentified. b & w; 3 x 4 in.
A photograph of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church located at 2416 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was founded in 1871 by Rev. Pharoah Benson, a former slave. The first church was built right across the street from the present day...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
Back cover of Official Report of the Board of Health for the City of Nashville, February 1905, giving meteorological observations in Nashville for the month. Data includes maximum, minimum, and mean of temperature, the amount of precipitation, and...
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 drawing...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a young student’s tea party. The caption reads: “An attractive school girl tea was given recently by Miss Carolyn Montgomery at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Montgomery, on...
Photograph of Cornelia Fort wearing pilot's coveralls, flying helmet, and goggles perched on top of her head, standing next to and leaning against the wing of a PT-19 training airplane in 1942. Fort was a young Nashville debutante who became a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted on 25 August 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
A photograph made at Du Pont's rayon plant in Old Hickory, Tennessee. Employees pose with a sign giving the latest statistics for their safety records. They anticipated being given the title of "The World's Safest Plant" at midnight that day. ...