An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. A cartoon portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This cartoon is a caricature of the Democratic presidential balloting and supporters in the national election...
A postcard of the tomb of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th president of the United States. Designed by William Strickland, the tomb was originally located in the garden at Polk Place, a mansion in downtown Nashville, where the former president...
A postcard of the tomb of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), the 11th president of the United States. Designed by William Strickland, the tomb was originally located in the garden at Polk Place, a mansion in downtown Nashville, where the former president...
A circa 1996 photograph of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, the handsome old estate of "Old Hickory," the seventh President of the United States. Andrew Jackson died in 1845 at the Hermitage reaching the age of 77. His burial was...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his separation from service as a Marine photographer in...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. This caricature depicts a worried President Gamal Nasser of Egypt straddling two sides of the Suez Canal while...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. Based on an original metal plate, this printed reproduction shows John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy heading a...
An original political cartoon created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. The cartoon compares the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations in regards to the increase of new employees in the...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. A cheerful President Roosevelt is depicted walking back from a "Pearl Harbor Visit" shouldering a gun...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. The two frames depict President Lyndon Baines Johnson with an iron glove ("For North Vietnam Aggression")...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This caricature depicts President Lyndon Baines Johnson with a "Civil Rights Hop Program Dance" card in his...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. This particular cartoon was probably created during his eleven-year career with the Memphis Commercial...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, to his wife, Eunice, in the years following the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. ...
A photograph of First lady Eleanor Roosevelt exiting a plane at the Nashville Airport (Berry Field), 6 March 1938, Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville Banner newspaper headline ran on March 7, 1938: "First Lady Stops Here To Tell Husband 'All's Well'...
An 1897 photograph of the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson Statue located on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tennessee. A group of ladies in 19th century attire are pictured in front of the statue and several large...
A circa 1919 photograph of the Andrew Jackson monument, an equestrian statue depicting Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. It is one of the three identical statues sculpted by the American sculptor Clark Mills. This stature is located on...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his separation from service as a Marine photographer in...
A photograph of the demolition of the Maxwell House Hotel in 1962, after it was gutted by fire. The five story hotel was begun by John Overton in 1859, but the Civil War delayed its completion. It was used for barracks for both Union soldiers and...