A photograph of the Rutledge-Baxter House, located at 101 Lea Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This historic building rests on the site of "Rose Hill," the grand antebellum home of Henry and Septima Sexta Rutledge, a young couple who were members of...
A front view of the old Father Ryan High School, located at 2300 Elliston Place in Nashville, Tennessee. This school building was originally constructed circa 1928-29 on land that was once a part of the Elliston family plantation. The Roman...
A photograph of the Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on Feb. 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio...
A photograph of the Ellington Agricultural Center at 440 Hogan Road, Nashville, Tennessee, as it appeared circa 1972. Originally part of the Brentwood Hall estate of financier Rogers Caldwell (1890-1968), the state-owned complex is now headquarters...
A photograph of Machinery Hall at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, in whose splendid proportions and style was designed with the Parthenon as the prototype and the propylaeum gateway as a component part. This non-extant...
A photograph of the Jewish Temple, 5015 Harding Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1972. The Temple is the oldest and largest Jewish house of worship in Nashville. Congregation Ohabai Sholom was established in 1851 and was known as the Vine Street...
A photograph of Mrs. Eleanor Hankins (Hank) Fort, a Nashville native and prominent singer-songwriter. Popularly known by the stage name of Hank Fort, her music included songs with a Southern flavor, such as: "Put Your Shoes on Lucy," "Nashville's...
A photograph of "a view of the tavern stables, built more than a hundred years ago…Originally a tavern on the stage line running East and West from Nashville through Charlotte. Part of the stable building on the East side was the original stable....
A photograph of a large crowd of people viewing Harveys Department Store's nativity scene in Centennial Park. This article appeared in the Nashville Banner newspaper with similar photographs on December 3, 1956: "Nashvillians by the thousands took...
A photograph of the Paramount Theatre at 721-727 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee circa 1930. The marquee advertises "Gary Cooper & Marlene Deitrich - Morocco - C. Sharpe Minor at the Organ - Eddie Canter." The $500,000 theater opened November...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, reading letters in front of their tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898.
The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the...
A studio portrait (seated) of a Nashville soldier, Private John Knopp of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, 1898 at Camp Merritt, California. The card index identifies the soldier as "John Knopp," while the Knopp surname referenced in the regimental...
An 1898 photograph of some of the members of Co. F. of 1st Tennessee Volunteers when in line getting their dinner at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May,...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...
(Transferred to Peter Dennis-June, 1845; Part transferred to James Kerr, see Kerr. Part transferred to Tennessee Davis in 1857 according to the deed I; 20; West; 10; 15.0x10.0; 274; I; 05/22/1844; Davis, Tennesse R. 1808-1857; Reddy, Mrs. Ann -1848
(Transferred to Peter Dennis-June, 1845; Part transferred to James Kerr, see Kerr. Part transferred to Tennessee Davis in 1857 according to the deed I; 20; West; 10; 15.0x10.0; 274; I; 05/22/1844; Davis, Tennesse R. 1808-1857; Reddy, Mrs. Ann -1848
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This page...
(Part of the lot transferred from Brown, Jos. P. and another part from Lee, John M.); 26; 29; 10.0x40.0; 115; II; 07/10/1861; 87; II; 07/10/1861; Looks empty, but check the back of the card for possible burials.; Brown, Mrs. Judith D. 1880-1914;...