Pictured: “Plan scrap movie: the suburban theaters operated by the Crescent Amusement Company will cooperate in the Banner scrap drive when a special program for young and old will be held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock with 10 pounds of scrap...
Pictured: “Riding to Victory on a Water Tank: Little Floyd Edward Walker (center) age 3, although a “pre-schooler,” has joined his two older brothers, Buford Dean (left) and Jesse Lawrence (right), as top-notch scrap collectors in Jere Baxter...
Pictured: “Scrap literally rolls in:” A few minutes after the Highland Heights Junior High School was entered in the Banner scrap contest by Principal James C. Armistead, “Colonel” Dewey Russell (second from left) of the school’s Junior...
Pictured: “Scrap weighing continues in Williamson: when trucks visited schools in Williamson County to bring in the scrap they found the principal and teachers weighing the salvage at Bethesda High School. Pictured (left to right …), with the...
Pictured: “Spain Avenue ‘Junior Cadets’ join scrap army: neighborhood friends on Spain Avenue have added patriotic activities to their playtime ones. This group of boys, now known as the Junior Cadets, are canvassing their neighborhood for...
Pictured: “Treasured relics go into scrap heap: the rapidly growing salvage collection in Giles County now includes treasured relics of the War Between the States. In a ceremony held at the monument of Sam Davis on the Public Square at Pulaski,...
Pictured: “Trucks harvest scrap at Williamson Schools: when salvage leaders and volunteer truck operators in Williamson County toured schools yesterday they found a rich harvest of scrap gathered by schools competing in the Banner salvage...
Pictured: “Vanderbilt University adds campus fences to Banner scrap pile: realizing the vital need for scrap iron by the Government, Vanderbilt University officials today “gave a fence for Allied offense” as they authorized the scrapping of...
Pictured: “Vanderbilt University adds campus fences to Banner scrap pile: realizing the vital need for scrap iron by the Government, Vanderbilt University officials today “gave a fence for Allied offense” as they authorized the scrapping of...
Pictured: (left to right) Johnny Majors, Player of the Year award recipient of the 1956 Banner Banquet of Champions, unidentified man, James G. Stahlman and unidentified, photographed at the Belle Meade Country Club. The award ceremony was hosted...
Pictured: (left to right) Unidentified man, Grafton Green, C. J., James Clark McReynolds, Justice of U. S. Supreme Court, and Nashville attorney Percy D. Maddin, seated together at a banquet table. Grafton Green was an American jurist. He earned...
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: Hollywood movie star Andrew Vabre “Andy” Devine (1905-1977), an American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. Photo dated January, 1940. Unidentified man, pictured on the right. It was in April, 1940 when the Devine’s made a...
Pictured: Hollywood movie star Andrew Vabre “Andy” Devine (1905-1977), an American character actor and comic cowboy sidekick. Photo dated January, 1940. Unidentified man, pictured on the right. It was in April, 1940 when the Devine’s made a...
Pictured: Johnny Majors (center at banquet table with floral arrangements) with Tennessee Governor Frank Clement, left, and unidentified man on right. Majors won the Player of the Year Award at the Banner Banquet of Champions. The Banner newspaper...
Pictured: Minnie Pearl (right) with an unidentified woman at the gala opening of the Tennessee Theater, February 28, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee. This palatial Art Deco movie palace was located in downtown Nashville at 527 Church Street. It...
Pictured: Several people upon the platform stage, including Jean Faircloth MacArthur (holding a floral bouquet), next to son Arthur, with Gen. Douglas MacArthur (to right of their son). This event was at the stadium program at Middle Tennessee...
Property was acquired by the City of Nashville on the north side of the Public Square as a building site for a new City Market House in September of 1935. Plans for the new building were submitted by architect Henry C. Hibbs. Upon approval of...
The construction site, including an aerial view, of the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, circa February 18th, 1961. This facility, located on Fourth Avenue N in downtown Nashville, opened on October 7th, 1962 and was the first public assembly...
The Eastern Airlines Stewardess gives a Times Square sign to Mayor Ben West (pictured left) and Kermit C. Stengel (pictured right) at the Nashville Airport in 1953. Another view shows the men placing the sign in downtown Nashville at 6th Avenue...