Nashville Public Library Digital Collections

- Group of five soldiers in woods during training, between 1939 and 1945
- A snapshot of a group of five soldiers posed casually in the woods outside of a large tent next to a tree serving as a signpost. Two homemade signs reading "5th Ave." and "Church Street," are nailed into the tree as if marking that intersection. ...
- Nashville Public Library's Digital Collections
- image/jpeg
- Cokesbury Book Store opening in downtown Nashville,1958 March
- 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...
- Nashville Public Library's Digital Collections
- image/jpeg
- Photograph of crowd, Fehr Elementary School, corner of Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 1957 September 09
- A photograph of irate segregationists exchanging words with supporters of desegregation at Fehr Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Police officers escorted African American students into the school, marking the first day of...
- Nashville Public Library's Digital Collections
- image/tiff (32.3 MB)