Named in honor of J.M. Head, mayor of Nashville from 1899 to 1903, Head Elementary School was completed in 1904. Located on 16th Avenue North, E.S. Brugh was the school's first principal. A new school building was built in 1952 to accommodate...
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...
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 cartoon is a caricature of the Democratic presidential balloting and supporters in the national election...
A photograph of Glendale Baptist Church located at 1020 Glendale Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. This church started as a mission of Belmont Heights Baptist Church in 1948 and was officially chartered as an independent congregation on March 11,...
A photograph of a man contemplating gas prices at two local service stations. This photo appeared on the front page of the 8 September 1955 edition of the Nashville Banner. The caption states, "Confusion in the gas war - John W. Thomas scratches...
Wilkins Tannehill in his later years, with a full head of grey hair, seated on a red chair and wearing a burgundy and gold Masonic stole. Wilkins Tannehill was born in 1787 in Pennsylvania and died in 1858 in Nashville. He was a merchant, banker,...
A photograph of conference participants posed together at the Race Relations Conference at Talley Hall, Fisk University. Fisk began hosting the annual Race Relations Institute in 1944. Organized by Dr. Charles S. Johnson, head of Fisk's sociology...
An exterior view showing the Negro Branch of the Carnegie Library, in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1916. This branch library opened at the southeast corner of Twelfth Avenue North and Hynes Street on February 10, 1916. It was among the four...
A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Dr. W. L. Dudley, a distinguished scientist, lecturer, and head of the Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Dudley was born in 1859 in Covington, Kentucky. He earned his...
A published photo of Mrs. Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon from the Nashville Times (1940), the head caption reads “Job Advisor.” Mrs. MacGibbon was known as the “Emily Post of Business.” In addition to being an automobile editor, an advertising...
The historic Belle Meade Plantation was founded by John Harding, of Goochland County, Virginia in 1807. Harding purchased 250 acres of farm land near Richland Creek and the Natchez Trace. He was very interested in horses and soon boarded horses...
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...
A photograph of the sculpture of the east pediment and metopes of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. The pediment sculpture shows an artists conception of the birth of Athena, who was depicted in Greek myth as having sprung, full grown and in...
An original will of Alfred Balch, n.d. Illustrates the first page of the document. The verso refers to “Book 16, Pages 182, 183, 184” in the Davidson County Court, that was recorded in the Wills & Inventories volume on December 7th, 1853. ...
Pictured: A young man sitting atop an elephant’s head, with the Ringling Brothers Circus at Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Pictured: Gen. Douglas MacArthur and wife Jean Faircloth MacArthur and young son (Arthur) among a group of military officers and civilians, upon their arrival to speak at Middle Tennessee State College in 1951. Both General MacArthur and his wife...
Pictured: Jean Faircloth MacArthur holding a fishing rod, seated next to son Arthur on the platform among military officials and townspeople, at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of an honorary ceremony in 1951. Both General MacArthur...
Pictured: Jean Faircloth MacArthur, next to son Arthur, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, on the platform among military officials and townspeople, at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of an honorary ceremony in 1951. Both General MacArthur...