A piece of commercial advertising correspondence created by Edgar M. Foster, business manager of the Nashville Banner from 1891 to at least 1915. In this letter, Foster urges advertisers to consider placing ads with the Nashville Banner because of...
A photograph of Mrs. Naff standing in front of the ticket booth at the Ryman Auditorium. The building is located at 116 5th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The Ryman Auditorium opened as a tabernacle in 1892, and over the years its venue...
A newspaper image of Walton “Walt” Goldsby, the left fielder and manager of the Nashville Americans circa 1885-1887. In 1885, the Southern League was formed, and Nashville’s entry into the new league of professional baseball teams was the...
Pictured: “Plan scrap movie: the suburban theaters operated by the Crescent Amusement Company will cooperate in the Banner scrap drive when a special program for young and old will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock with 10 pounds of scrap...
A two page letter to Henry C. Hibbs from Arch Trawick written on Jersey Farms Milk Service stationary. The letter reads like a poem in the form of a request for the design of an elaborate building that would be "…Stocked with books of sages/...
A photograph of Mrs. Francis X. O'Donnell, theater chairman, and Mrs. George Harmon, downtown chairman, of the Fannie Battle Christmas Carol Committee of 1951, seen contacting theater manager Floyd Rice to arrange for carol singing at local...
An illustrated newsclipping of the front page of the 24 December 1953 Nashville Banner, showing one of the youth choirs for the Fannie Battle carol singing on Christmas Eve, a festive tradition in support of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The...
A photograph of the Nashville Vols baseball team celebrating after a win in their club house. This photograph ran in the 22 September 1948 edition of the Nashville Banner with the caption, "Vols Hope To Rubber Stamp This Scene Soon - Twice now, the...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Hotel, a business property named for Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy." The twelve-story building was located at the corner of 132 Seventh Avenue North at the corner of Commerce Street in downtown Nashville,...
A photograph of the new air service being demonstrated at the Nashville Airport, Nashville, Tennessee. The following caption accompanied this photograph in the Nashville Banner newspaper on February 3, 1936: "Twenty-one domestic and an...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Oralene Day, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Jared Brennan and Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Day describes the support she received from the Red Cross and McGruder...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Hugh Miller, conducted on March 11, 2011 by Bradley Aders as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Hugh Miller, resident manager of the River Plantation condo complex in Bellevue, describes the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “Roger Phillips, WSIX announcer of the Nashville Vols games in the Southern League, is shown in an interview with Connie Mack, veteran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American...
A published photo of Mrs. Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon from the Nashville Times (1940), the head caption reads “Job Advisor.” Mrs. MacGibbon was known as the “Emily Post of Business.” In addition to being an automobile editor, an advertising...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “Here’s what downtown Nashvillians saw marching down Church Street just before noon today--Manager Gilbert and his victorious Vols returning from a three-game triumph over the Atlanta...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a young student’s tea party. The caption reads: “An attractive school girl tea was given recently by Miss Carolyn Montgomery at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Montgomery, on...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Hoover Motor Express Softball Team. The caption reads: “Here is a softball team that should be ready to roll when it enters one of the regular leagues next week. It’s the recently...
The new Cokesbury Book Store opening in downtown Nashville, with Mayor Ben West cutting ribbon, marking the official ceremony on March 3rd, 1958, at 417 Church Street. The 1958 City Directory cites Philip C. Warden, Manager. The name Cokesbury is a...
Liberace, a famous American pianist and vocalist, was welcomed to Nashville by Mayor Ben West and Harry Draper, Manager of the Ryman Auditorium, circa 1950s. This media publicity event took place at the Berry Field, Nashville Airport. Liberace was...
Nashville Mayor Briley is pictured beside a huge envelope display produced by the Atlantic Envelope Company, a Division of National Service Industries, Inc. The 1967 City Directory cites the business address at 888 Elm Hill Pike, Sigmund Held,...