A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Nashville, “which has sponsored a vocational guidance program with senior high school girls of Tennessee Industrial School for four years,...
A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...
This photograph, published in the Nashville Banner circa the Yuletide season of 1955, relates to a Nashville family's long and meaningful participation in the Christmas carol program of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The caption from an undated...
A photograph taken at the Fannie Battle Day Home, circa 14 December 1951. Pictured left to right, is Mrs. Drowota, president of the Fannie Battle Social Workers, Mrs. Corinne Pilcher, director of the home, Mrs. T. Graham Hall and Mrs. Avery...
A photograph of Central Church of Christ located at 145 Fifth Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1925 with a congregation of only 47 members. Membership today now exceeds 1,200. Early works of the church ranged from general...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a musical program: “McKendree Methodist Church will be the scene Sunday evening at 7 o’clock of a musical program presented by the church choir. Besides Easter hymns, the choir composed...
Presentation of a check donated by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to Nashville Mayor Ben West, promoting the Civil Defense program. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “An attractive annual entertainment was the outdoor play given by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Shillinglaw on the lawns of their home in Belle Meade. About 250 invited guests enjoyed the play, a dance...
A program for the Nashville Community Playhouse's sixty-sixth production, Dinner at Eight by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, and directed by Raymond Johnson. The production ran from October 8 through October 13 in the fall of 1945. The program...
Edwin W. Craig, Chairman of National Life and Accident Insurance Company, receives a resolution from Mayor Ben West on May 3rd, 1962. Craig advised L&A’s board to venture into radio as a good marketing tool, and WSM-AM radio was born. Soon, the...
An excerpt from a press conference with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley conducted in 1970. Mayor Briley discusses upcoming trip to Washington where he will testify regarding intergovernmental relations and public improvements. Specifically,...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about the Fannie Battle Social Workers. The caption reads: “The Fannie Battle Social Workers are seen at a recent meeting at Centennial Club, where they planned the program of their...
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...
A postcard of Furman Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University. When Furman Hall opened in 1907, it was called the most modern chemistry/pharmacy building in the United States. Its name honors Francis Furman, a Nashville merchant, whose widow...
Pictured: An unidentified man at the podium of the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. General MacArthur and his wife Jean Faircloth MacArthur are seated at center...
Pictured: Gen. Douglas MacArthur (left) standing next to an unidentified man in a suit (middle), and a military officer (right), at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in...
Pictured: Jean Faircloth MacArthur, with son Arthur and husband Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. General MacArthur and his wife Jean...
Pictured: Jean Faircloth MacArthur, next to son Arthur (wearing sunglasses) and General Douglas MacArthur, seated on the front row of the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in...
Pictured: Gen. Douglas MacArthur saluting with other military officers, on the stage with his wife and son and others at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. The...
Pictured: Jean Faircloth MacArthur speaking with an unidentified man at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee State College on the occasion of the MacArthur family honorary ceremony in 1951. The city of Murfreesboro welcomed the couple with a...