This photograph, circa 1935, features a fleet of Nashville Police cars and officers in front of the War Memorial Building in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the 1935 Nashville City Directory: "Nashville has one of the most competent police...
A view of the Nashville Traffic Police, pictured with their 1950 Kaiser cruisers. This photo was perhaps taken behind the old jail building in Nashville, Tennessee. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 5 photograph...
Nashville Police Department officers pictured alongside the vehicles in front of the Parthenon, circa 1950s. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Nashville Police Department officers pictured alongside the vehicles in front of the Parthenon, circa 1950s. Includes motorcycles. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Nashville Police Department officers pictured alongside the vehicles in front of the Parthenon, circa 1950s. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Nashville Police Department officers pictured alongside the vehicles in front of the Parthenon, circa 1950s. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
Nashville Police Department officers pictured alongside the vehicles in front of the Parthenon, circa 1950s. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
A photograph of Lt. Matt Pylkas, fellow police officers, and a volunteer in the River Plantation neighborhood of Bellevue in the aftermath of the May 2010 Nashville flood.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital History Project.
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a boat built by the police maintenance department. The caption reads: “Because of recent difficulties in recovering bodies drowned in streams in the vicinity of Nashville, Chief of Police...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Chief of Police John Griffin. The caption reads: “Chief of Police John Griffin and James Merritt Hepbron, well known criminologist, discussed local crime problems in the chief’s office...
A photograph of an orange and black poster saying "Don't be a Heel, mind your traffic manners", being put up on a utility pole by Traffic Inspector Hubert O. Kemp (right foreground) and (left to right) Traffic Lt. Braxton Duke, Randolph Tucker, a...
A photograph of Reverend Joseph Metz Rollins with police officers before a demonstration, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 1963. Reverend Rollins served with the National Committee of Black Churchmen and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Deford Bailey Jr., conducted on October 14 2011 by Andrea Blackman as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Deford Bailey Jr. describes his experience getting stuck in floodwaters on his way to...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Scott Cothran, conducted on July 29 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. During the May 2010 flood, Cothran, a police officer and Bellevue resident, performed water...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Sgt. Steve Linn, conducted on September 7, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Sgt. Linn describes water rescues performed in Belle Meade.
The complete interview...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about Mayor Thomas L. Cummings, “relaxing today at his home after the fatigue of his journey here from Florida, said that whatever the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommends as to...
A tree planting ceremony at the Bailey’s Food Market, a retail grocery store located at 900 2nd Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. Mayor Ben West is present for the event, as well as many traffic “patrol mothers” and two traffic police...
William T. Lowe may have been Nashville's first motorcycle police officer. He was a member of the Nashville police force from 1918 through 1926. 8 x 10 in.
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the County Jail....
A Nashville Police Officer directs traffic. Along the north side of Broad Street, Hume Fogg High School and the Masonic Building can be seen, and the Customs House and First Baptist Church are visible along the south side of the street. 35 mm