A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Nashville children contributing profits from a soft drink stand to provide food to children in Europe, via a Red Cross project. The caption reads: “There’ll be little drinking of the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the annual Red Cross roll call. The caption reads: “More than 600 women made the census enumerators look like a bunch of pikers as they started the annual Red Cross roll call today. This...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940). It cites that “A group from Division Four of the Commercial-Industrial committee of the Red Cross are shown above. Left to right, seated, are Charles L. Cornelius, Balie Gross and Ruben Seay;...
A photograph of Seventh Day Adventist Memorial Church located at 500 Fatherland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation was red brick. The exterior walls were red brick. The roof was gabled with tar shingles. The windows were a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel served from 1943 until 1946 as a Gray Lady at...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Andromedia "Andy" Bagwell Noel, conducted on 1 November 2004 by Betty Richards as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Noel served from 1943 until 1946 as a Gray Lady at...
A photograph of Evans Hill Missionary Baptist Church located at 1341 Tulip Grove Road in Hermitage, Tennessee. The historic structure was completed in 1952. The building foundation is comprised of concrete blocks that have been painted red. The...
A photograph of Glendale Baptist Church located at 1020 Glendale Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. This church started as a mission of Belmont Heights Baptist Church in 1948 and was officially chartered as an independent congregation on March 11,...
A photograph of Hamilton Tabernacle United Primitive Baptist Church located at 2407 Booker Street in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally called Hamilton Tabernacle Baptist Church, this structure was built in 1942. The foundation is made of concrete...
A two-page handwritten letter by James Neese to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.L. Neese, Jr. of Nashville, Tenn. James often wrote to his parents and brother in Nashville to tell them about his experiences in the Army infantry serving in Africa and...
A photograph of New Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, formerly known as First United Brethren Church, located at 1700 Ninth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1904 as indicated on the cornerstone. The foundation...
A photograph of St Luke's Primitive Baptist Church located at 135 Lewis Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks that have been painted white. The exterior walls are red brick. The roof is gabled and made...
A photograph of St. Patrick Catholic Church located at 1219 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built in 1890 to serve the mainly Irish neighborhood, and so was named after St. Patrick. The red brick structure was...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Oralene Day, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Jared Brennan and Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Day describes the support she received from the Red Cross and McGruder...
Pictured: “Rosemont ‘Scrappers’ compete for Banner prize: one of the first entries in the Banner scrap contest, the pupils at Rosemont School are today hard at work to win their share of the $2,000 War Bond prizes. Seen surrounding their...
A photograph of the Seventeenth Street Christian Church. This church was located at 1700 Fatherland Street in East Nashville. The foundation material is rough cut stone blocks. Exterior walls are red brick. The roof is comprised of tar...
A photograph of Christ Temple Apostolic Church North located at 1600 Tenth Avenue North in Nashville Tennessee. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks. The exterior walls are red brick. The roof is gabled and hipped with a non-uniform...
A photograph of the First Baptist Church of West Nashville located at 619 Thirty-ninth Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The founding year of the congregation is 1874 and the current building was remodeled in 1958. The foundation is red...
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 state Capitol...
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....