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...
A postcard of St. Cecelia Academy, a private, all-girls Roman Catholic high school founded in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters. This building is located in North Nashville at Eighth Avenue North and Clay Street. The original Victorian-style building...
A photograph of a group of strikers at Rockwood Tennessee Hosiery Mills on strike because their work day hours were increased without pay increase. An effort was made on this day to organize a local American Federation of Hosiery Workers. The...
The Nashville Bridge Company, in February 1953, located along the east side of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced a...
The Nashville Bridge Company and the West Kentucky Coal Company vessel, circa 1957, on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced...
The Nashville Bridge Company, in 1956, located along the east side of the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee. The Nashville Bridge Company was organized in 1902 by Mr. A. J. Dyer. Through the years, the Company experienced a continuous and...
A photograph of the Andrew Price Memorial United Methodist Church located at 2846 Lebanon Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The roots of the church started around 1850. At that time a group of Methodists organized the Donelson Methodist Episcopal...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. The two frames depict President Lyndon Baines Johnson with an iron glove ("For North Vietnam Aggression")...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. In this cartoon, a tattered, exhausted man ("U.S.") tries to run and keep his balance on a barrel ("Red Ink...