A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about Nashville Times carrier boys. The caption reads: “More than 200 Nashville Times carrier boys were guests last night of the Dodson Shows, at Fortieth and Charlotte, when all the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Hoover Motor Express Softball Team. The caption reads: “Here is a softball team that should be ready to roll when it enters one of the regular leagues next week. It’s the recently...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about Mayor Thomas L. Cummings, “relaxing today at his home after the fatigue of his journey here from Florida, said that whatever the Federal Bureau of Investigation recommends as to...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. The drawing...
A photograph of Church of the Assumption, now referred to as Assumption Church located at 1227 Seventh Avenue North in Nashville Tennessee. The original street address was 1225 Seventh Avenue North. Assumption Church is Nashville's second oldest...
A photograph of Coretta Scott King, Reverend Kelly Miller Smith and Mrs. D. Conrad Gandy at First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, October 20, 1958. Mrs. King addressed the group at a Women's Day program at First Baptist Church, 8th Avenue...
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'...
A photograph of South Harpeth Church of Christ located at 8727 Old Harding Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Said to be the oldest Church of Christ in Davidson County, the South Harpeth congregation first organized in 1812. The original building was...
A photograph of the Downtown Presbyterian Church located on the corner of present day Fifth Avenue and Church Street. When the building was first erected in 1849 the streets were called Summer Street and Spring Street, and the structure briefly...
A photograph of Z. Alexander Looby at the city jail, Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Looby, a local lawyer had addressed an American Veteran's Committee public meeting at Bethlehem Center on November 1, 1950. This photograph appeared in the Nashville...
A typescript “to R. M. Baker, Administrator of Thomas W. Baker, Dec.d.” regarding an order “to pay into the office of the clerk of said County Court of Davidson Court, the balance … as such administrator in your final settlement with said...
Al Jolson, famous singing comedian of the stage and screen, stopped in Nashville “yesterday evening en route by plane to the West Coast for a surprise visit to his son, who celebrates his sixth birthday today. He is shown at the Hermitage Hotel...
An original document pertaining to the probate of the will of C. B. Armistead. Illustrates the first page of the document. Armistead’s will was admitted to the Davidson County Court for probate on November 13th, 1912 “in error.” The...
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 will of Elizabeth L. Austin, dated April 29th, 1904. Illustrates the first page of the document. She named her son Samuel E. Austin as heir, saying “my son the said Samuel E. Austin has stayed at home with me and taken care of me...
An original will of Gloss Allen, a nuncupative oral will, “done in the sick chamber of the said Gloss Allen, on Saturday, August 25, 1900.” It was a contested will. Illustrates the first page of the document. It was put into writing by the...
An original will of W. F. Askew, dated May 18th, 1921. Illustrates the first page of the document. The will cites Askew was “a member of the Masonic Home … all of the above said property to be turned over to the Board of Control to be used by...
John Shelby in his middle age, with dark hair and wearing a dark jacket and white shirt. Born in 1786, John Shelby was a physician, a Postmaster, and a civic and church leader. He is said to have been the first child of European descent born in...
Pictured: “Antioch High School ‘Scrap’ for Victory: approximately 30 tons of scrap metal have already been piled up at Antioch High School by its 200 students under the direction of the Future Farmers Club and M. D. Capps sponsor. The area...
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,...