Pictured: Athletic award winners (on left is Johnny Majors, next to unidentified man) signing autographs at the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions, held at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. This annual event was hosted by the Banner...
Pictured: Event hosts and dignitaries table, including Governor Frank Clement at the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions held at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. This annual event was hosted by the Banner newspaper to honor sports...
A view of the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions, held at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. This annual event was hosted by the Banner newspaper to honor sports achievement. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1...
A view of the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions, held at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. This annual event was hosted by the Banner newspaper to honor sports achievement. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1...
A view of the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions, held at the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville. This annual event was hosted by the Banner newspaper to honor sports achievement. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1...
Pictured: James G. Stahlman, Publisher of the Nashville Banner at the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions, seated with an unidentified man next to the podium. The Nashville Banner hosted this annual event held in Nashville, Tennessee, to honor sports...
Jonathan Jennings was killed by Indians in the summer of 1780 at the point of the first island above Nashville. Jennings's will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on July 6, 1784 by James Robertson and William Fletcher. This is...
A postcard of Castle Hall, the meeting place for the Joel A. Battle Lodge. Col. Joel A. Battle was a Knight of Pythias, and to show the high esteem in which his brethren of this order held him, several years following his death in 1872, a lodge...
A photograph of the former Twenty-seventh Avenue Church of Christ located at 526 Twenty-seventh Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is a concrete block. The exterior walls are made of red brick. The roof is made of asphalt...
A photograph of Charlotte Avenue Church of Christ, built in 1921. This church is located at 4508 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville Tennessee. It is the second structure erected to house its members at the corner of Charlotte and Forty-sixth Avenues....
A photograph of Christ the King Catholic Church, located at 3001 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The church's first mass was held in 1937 inside of a two-story brick house that was situated on the property bought for the church by the...
A postcard of the Hermitage Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The Hermitage Club building was first a downtown residence in between Church and Union Streets at 233 Sixth Avenue North, then called High Street. The builder of the house was Confederate...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds showing the Woman's Building, the grandstand and the track. Located just one mile south of downtown Nashville, the fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds located just one mile south of downtown Nashville. The fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track with a grandstand that seated 7,000 people. In 1904...
A postcard of the Tennessee State Fairgrounds showing the Women's Building, Grandstand, and track. Located just one mile south of downtown Nashville, the fairgrounds opened in 1891 as Cumberland Park. The park was built as a harness racing track...
A photograph of the Downtown Presbyterian Church located on the corner of present day Fifth Avenue and Church Street. When the building was first erected in 1849 the streets were called Summer Street and Spring Street, and the structure briefly...
A photograph of the Eastland Baptist Church located at 1215 Gallatin Road in Nashville, Tennessee. This church's congregation formed in 1911 and originally met in the home of one of the members. Their first church building was built on the...
A photograph of Edgefield Baptist Church located at 700 Russell Street in the historic neighborhood of Edgefield in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was first organized in 1867 with thirty-one members. Construction on this church began in...
Announcement of a dance to be held at the close of commencement for the class of 1919. Established in 1883 as a grammar school, Pearl became a high school in the 1897 - 1898 school year. In 1919, Pearl High School was located on 16th Avenue No. at...
A photograph of a dance number entitled "Glinda's Girl Army" from "The Wonderful Land of Oz," presented by advanced students of the Dance Department, Nashville Conservatory of Music. The recital was sponsored by the Al Menah Temple for the benefit...