Sixteen excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted on 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In these clips...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon conducted on 19 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Nixon discusses Cross...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville barbershop owner James H. Crowder, conducted on 28 August 1986 by Reavis Mitchell as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Crowder discusses how his barbershop was a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted on 26 March 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted on 3 April 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley, who was Mayor of Nashville from 1963 to...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader James Stephen (Steve) Turner, conducted on 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Laurel Creech, conducted on February 9, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Laurel Creech, the city of Nashville’s Chief Service Officer, discusses Hands on...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant DeLois Wilkinson, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Kathy G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Wilkinson...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Michael Sullivan, conducted on August 27, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Michael talks about his experience performing rescues during the May 2010 flood.
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An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville barbershop owner James H. Crowder, conducted on 28 August 1986 by Reavis Mitchell as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Crowder discusses the return of local men...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Michael Sullivan, conducted on August 27, 2011 by Annette Pilcher as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Michael describes rescues performed with the Office of Emergency Management in South...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Kevin Penney, Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director, conducted on February 03, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Kevin Penney discusses emergency response...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with John and Nancy O’Leary, conducted on October 31, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. John and Nancy O’Leary’s Franklin home caught fire during the flood and...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Mayor Karl Dean, conducted on January 20, 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Topics discussed include tourism, recovery, CMA, downtown businesses, Gaylord,...
A photograph of a church referred to as the House of God, an African American Pentecostal denomination also known as the Church of the Living God. The full name used on the front entrance signage reads: The House of God Which is the Church of the...
A stock certificate of the antebellum period issued to William Harrison, Sr. certifying capital stock in the Franklin and Columbia Turnpike Company, as witnessed on Dec. 2, 1850. Historically, the turnpikes started with local ownership in the form...
A two-page handwritten letter by James Neese to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Neese, Jr. of Nashville, Tenn. James often wrote to his parents and brother in Nashville to tell them about his experiences in the Army infantry serving in Africa and...
Oral history excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron...
A photograph of the Tennessee Teachers Credit Union located at 1400 Eighth Avenue South in Nashville, Tenn. The building originally was constructed as a church for the South End Methodist Episcopal congregation in 1910. An education wing was...
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...