Pictured: “Cameron High School aids scrap drive: students at Cameron High School, 1028 First Avenue, South, have piled up a large scrap heap on the school yard in their patriotic cooperation with the current salvage drive. L. W. Beasley serves...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Corinne Frazier Calhoun Bailey, conducted on 14 February 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Bailey, who was the daughter of Tyler Calhoun, a Nashville...
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...
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
A photograph of St. Bernard Convent and Academy, a private Catholic girls' school located on Hillsboro Road in the Green Hills neighborhood. The school was started by the Sisters of Mercy who came to Tennessee from Rhode Island to start in 1866...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights leader Charles Tony Moorman on 09 August 2007 by Larry Patterson as part of the Civil Rights Oral History Project. In the excerpts Moorman discusses when the Washington Junior High School basketball...
Anne Elizabeth Battle as an infant, wearing a gold necklace. Born in 1907, Anne Elizabeth Battle was the daughter of Alfred Blackman and Blanche Goodall Battle, the sister of Mary Francis Battle Perry, and the great-niece of Mary Frances "Fannie"...
A photograph of a dance for teenagers. This photo ran in the 01 November 1956 issue of the Nashville Banner with the headline, "Teen Town Teening." The caption read, "Guitarist David Monks and dancers Tommy Worral, Linda Northern, Patsy Mince,...
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...
A photograph of A. Z. Kelley and some of the legal team from Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville in September 1955. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court issued Brown II, ordering that schools to desegregate...
A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...
A postcard of St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original campus location was atop a hill at Eighth Avenue and Clay Street...
A circa 1907 postcard view of the corridor of the Conservatory of Music, St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original...
A photograph of the Cavert School, located at 2500 Fairfax Avenue in Nashville, circa 1996. Cavert School opened as an elementary school circa 1928. The structure is designed in the classical style and with Eakin School was one of Nashville's early...
A photograph of a group of children holding flags high rehearsing to greet Bishop Adrian upon his arrival at the Cathedral of the Incarnation on West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, the next day. This title and caption accompanied the photo in...
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 page...
A photograph of a group of men from American Baptist Theological Seminary. The American Baptist Theological Seminary was originally a training facility for African American Baptist ministers. The men in the photograph are standing in front of...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a basketball game in the tournament. The caption reads: “Leland Blackwood, West forward, shoots at the basket but misses. Felix [Ray?] not shown in the picture, got the rebound. On the...
Some of the student models are pictured with Mayor Briley, promoting the Castner-Knott’s “Fashion Happening,” with “60 Models: Guys and Gals from Nashville High Schools and Colleges,” and “It’s a Happening,” at the War Memorial...
An aerial photograph of downtown Nashville, photographed for The Nashville Banner, by photographer John Morgan circa 1954. The view includes the urban landscape from the area adjacent to the Tennessee State Capitol building, south to Demonbreun...