A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), showing the patriotic group as “the small but most colorful part of Hume-Fogg’s R. O. T. C., as it lined up with lifted chins and straightened shoulders on the steps of the school on Broad...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Marion F. "Sonny" Smith, conducted on 25 Sept. 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Smith served with the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the...
An excerpt from a public meeting with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley conducted on April 5, 1968. Meeting held to discuss Vanderbilt student protest that took place on April 4. The main issue discussed was the calling of the National...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Angeline Emma Butler, conducted in March 2005 by Rachel Lawson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Butler discusses...
An excerpt from a press conference with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley conducted in 1970. Mayor Briley discusses upcoming trip to Washington where he will testify regarding intergovernmental relations and public improvements. Specifically,...
An excerpt from a WPLN Nashville Forum with guest Stokely Carmichael held in April of 1967. Panel included Mr. Carmichael and members of the Nashville community. Topics discussed were African Americans exercising their right to vote, organizing...
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...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Alan Murdock, conducted on May 19, 2011 by Robin Robinson as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Murdock discusses volunteer efforts and flood relief in East Nashville.
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An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
A snapshot of a group of five soldiers posed casually in the woods outside of a large tent next to a tree serving as a signpost. Two homemade signs reading "5th Ave." and "Church Street," are nailed into the tree as if marking that intersection. ...
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...
Nashville firefighters check billboards announcing Fire Prevention Week atop the Patent Button Company, on the north side of the Nashville Public Square. The adjacent building at the corner of the public square and 2nd Avenue North is home to the...
Nashville Photo Service, 1115 Woodland Street, at the intersection of Woodland Street and North 12th Street in historic East Nashville in 1951. 3 x 4 in.
The buildings of Neuhoff Packing Company were erected between 1906 and 1950. The complex, located along the Cumberland River near downtown, was abandoned in 1977 when the business was closed. 3 x 4 in.
The Holiday Inn on James Robertson Parkway at 8th Avenue North opened in January of 1960. The one million dollar, one hundred unit hotel was north of the Tennessee State Capitol building. 3 x 4 in.
Photograph of a group of Joe Thompson's buddies, relaxing on base before they were sent further down the coast of England in preparation for what turned out to be the battle of Normandy. Forms part of the Veterans History Project collection. 1...
The Coggin Chevrolet showroom on Woodland Street is now occupied by "The Trap" restaurant and nightclub. The adjacent four story building, since demolished, housed the National Casket Company which started business in Nashville in 1899. 35mm