The City of Nashville Fire Department video, entitled "Think, A False Alarm May Cost a Life", was produced circa 1955. The Fire Department created this video to educate the public about what occurs when a fire alarm is pulled. The film begins...
A view of the construction of the Sparkman Street Bridge, later renamed Shelby Street Bridge, built along the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville. The original official name of the bridge was the Broadway Bridge. The bridge was completed in...
A photograph of student nurses at Nashville's General Hospital attending babies in the nursery. Student nurses were responsible for many duties including caring for newborns, surgical nursing, and working in the diet kitchen and sometimes even...
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...
Dedicated in March 1928, Scarritt College remains one of architect Henry C. Hibbs' signature designs in the collegiate gothic style. Hibbs was awarded a gold medal for his work on Scarritt and was recognized in the December 1929 issue of Southern...
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...
A photograph of the tombstone of William Driver in Nashville City Cemetery, 2000. Driver is credited with nicknaming the American flag "Old Glory." A master mariner, on an 1831 voyage to the South Pacific aboard the 110-ton whaler Charles Doggett,...
Members of the 117th Infantry, Tennessee National Guard parade past spectators on Legislative Plaza, Nashville, 29 September 1936, as part of the 30th Division reunion. One of the onlookers in foreground holds a large American flag on a flagpole....
A photograph of the Vine Street Temple (Congregation Ohabai Shalom) which was located at 136 Seventh Avenue North (Vine Street became Seventh Avenue in 1904), Nashville, Tennessee. The Byzantine style building had nine domes and was dedicated on 27...
A photograph of two soldiers of the First Tennessee Regiment, mustered into service at Nashville, Tennessee on 26 May 1898. The regiment trained at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, before being sent to the Philippine Islands. The First Tennessee was...
Photograph of soldiers in uniform, most with their backs towards the camera, gathered around a kneeling camel. One soldier appears to be mounting or dismounting the camel, assisted by a man in a turban. Morris Levine is at far right. Morris Levine...
A photograph of the Tennessee State Capitol, focusing primarily on the cupola and part of one portico. The State Capitol was constructed between 1845 and 1859. It was designed in Greek Revival style by architect William Strickland (1788-1854)....
A photograph of the sculpture of the east pediment and metopes of the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. The pediment sculpture shows an artists conception of the birth of Athena, who was depicted in Greek myth as having sprung, full grown and in...
A photograph of the Arcade, Nashville, Tennessee. The Arcade opened in 1903, running east to west between what were then Cherry Street and Summer Street; present day Fourth Avenue North and Fifth Avenue North. It was conceived by Nashville resident...
A photograph of participants in the 1968 Poor People's March, Nashville, Tennessee, May 8, 1968. In March 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced plans for the Poor People's Campaign for the purposes of organizing and uniting the poor across...
A photograph of one of the Nashville Public Library's Booketerias, located in a Logan supermarket in Belle Meade, Tennessee, circa March 1953. Dr. Robert Alvarez, Director, is pictured assisting a patron with method of taking out a book from the...
A photograph of the Young Moderns Den of the Nashville Public Library, circa 1960. The young adults are making use of the educational and entertainment resources, while one couple dances to the sounds of a phonograph. The Young Moderns Den was...
A photograph of the exposed interior walls of the Knickerbocker Theater in Nashville, Tennessee featuring birds-of-paradise frescoes on the walls (pictured in this photograph). The Knickerbocker was originally a magnificent movie house, located in...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
A photograph of Green Street Church of Christ located at 146 Green Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1892, and the present church building was completed in 1930 after the original frame structure burned in 1929. The...