A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader David Kirkpatrick "Pat" Wilson, conducted on 13 September 2006 by Cabot Pyle and Kenneth L. Roberts as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business...
A photograph of the B & W Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue North, Nashville Tennessee. The cafeteria was started by Fred R. Webber, Sr. around 1930. Sixth Avenue was a business hub in the late 1930s and 1940s. Thousands of workers came to the cafeteria...
A photograph of the Ryman Auditorium located at 116 5th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. Built as the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892, the structure was designed by architect Hugh Thompson for worship, but is perhaps best-known as the one-time...
A photograph of Gospel Tabernacle Church of God in Christ located at 1101 Jackson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone the church was built in 1916 as Jackson Street Baptist Church, and remodeled in 1941 by Reverend William...
A photograph of Jordonia United Methodist Church located at 4225 Cato Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Built in approximately 1920, this church was nominated for an Architectural Award in the 1975 awards program sponsored by Metropolitan Historical...
An undated photograph of the non-extant Nashville & Decatur Railroad depot building, built in 1868. The original immense Gothic Revival structure was located at the corner of Chestnut Street and Fourth Avenue (Cherry Street) and constructed of...
This booklet was published for new employees at the Nashville Bridge Company during the time of World War II. The beginning includes a brief history of the company during which it is explained that although the normal operations include...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
During the years of World War II it was considered your patriotic duty to sacrifice and make do with what you had. There was rationing in food, gas and even fabrics for clothing. One of the ways women could help with the war effort was to be frugal...
A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...
Excerpts from an interview with architectural historian John Kiser, conducted on 10 April 1978 by Deborah Cooney as part of the Historic Nashville Inc. Oral History project. The interview took place in John Kisers' historic home, the Hays-Kiser...
A photograph of the former Belmont Baptist Church, now Hope Center located at 2415 Twelfth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was erected in 1906 on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Its address was originally...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Mary Diane Maynard Ross, conducted on 2 Oct. 2006 by Linda Barnickel as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Ross discusses the difficulty of leaving behind her young...
Taking effect July 4, 1875 at 4:30 p.m., a timetable was provided for the government and for the information of railroad employees. It included special instructions such as "RUN NO RISKS, TAKE THE SAFE SIDE IN CASE OF DOUBT." The NC & St. L was...
A postcard of Kirkland Hall, the building built to replace Vanderbilt's Main Building that burned in 1905. Vanderbilt University was made possible in 1873 through a one million dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and rail...
Dewey Grantham, with dark hair and wearing a brown suit and black tie. He is leaning and seems as if in conversation. Born in 1921 in Georgia, Dewey W. Grantham was a Vanderbilt University professor and scholar of twentieth-century southern...
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 the...
A postcard of the WSM radio tower, advertising "America's tallest radio tower at 878 feet, standing 323 taller than the Washington Monument." The WSM station began in 1925 as the official radio station of the National Life and Accident Insurance...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Kay Rowe, conducted on 10 October 2007 by student Caitlin Smith at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. Kay...