A postcard of the WSM radio tower, advertising "America's tallest radio tower at 878 feet, standing 323 taller than the Washington Monument." The WSM station began in 1925 as the official radio station of the National Life and Accident Insurance...
During the fall of 1933, WSM radio presented a radio "newsreel" of outstanding colleges in the nation. They broadcasted a total of 28 shows on Mondays and Fridays. The broadcasts recreated college life and sports events, complete with legitimate...
A 1956 shopping and visitors map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The streets are labeled with address numbers and building names. A straight listing of prominent buildings and stores by category is also included on the lower portion of the...
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...
A photograph, circa April 1959, of downtown Nashville along Fourth Avenue North of Church Street from the corner of the Maxwell House Hotel. Several buildings and landmarks may be seen, such as the Maxwell House Hotel's marquee sign and the very...
Jesse Clifton Burt, Jr., in middle age, wearing a brown suit and green tie, with his arms crossed. His wedding band and watch are visible. Historian, author, and free-lance writer, Jesse Burt was born in 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Jesse...
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,...
Aladdin Industries building, located at 703-705 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The company site was built in 1949 when they moved from Chicago to Nashville. Listed in the 1956 City Directory with Victor S. Johnson, Jr., President; T. A....
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...
Excerpts from an interview with Madison businessman Douglas G. Odom, Jr., conducted on 05 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. In the excerpts, Odom discusses his family's business, Odom's...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader E.W. "Bud" Wendell, conducted on 22 June 2007 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
A photograph of Vasso and Hermes Pan, sister and brother who were visiting Nashville. An article titled "Noted Hollywood Dance Director Visits Nashville," ran in the 10 February 1939 edition of the Nashville Banner newspaper. "Hermes Pan, native...
Two photographs, published in a 2 December 1955 Nashville Banner newspaper feature about the carol program and Yuletide project of the Fannie Battle Social Workers, titled "Fannie Battle Carolers." The captions are "Pulchritudinous Publicists," and...
An autographed hand-signed photograph of Joseph T. Macpherson, a Metropolitan Opera Company bass-baritone, from Amqui, Tennessee. This photograph is inscribed to his Nashville voice teacher Signor G. S. de Luca with the notation: "To Signor G. S....
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 crowd of onlookers who thronged Church Street watching the arrival of movie stars and local VIPS at the gala opening of the Tennessee Theatre February 28, 1952 in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Outside activities included broadcasts...
A photograph of Dinah Shore surrounded by family and friends at the Nashville Airport. This partial text accompanied the photograph appearing in the Nashville Banner newspaper on March 15, 1941: "Dinah Shore, radio and record artist, stopped for...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “Roger Phillips, WSIX announcer of the Nashville Vols games in the Southern League, is shown in an interview with Connie Mack, veteran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American...
The Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on February 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio executives in...
Aladdin Industries building, located at 703-705 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The company site was built in 1949 when they moved from Chicago to Nashville. Listed in the 1970 City Directory with Victor S. Johnson, Jr., President and...