A photograph of Grace McKinley escorting her daughter Linda Gail McKinley (second girl) and a friend to Fehr Elementary School, corner of Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 9 September 1957. Mrs. McKinley walks through an irate...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...
Located on Grove Avenue, which later became Ordway Place, Ross School was erected in 1907. The school was named for Marcus M. Ross who worked as a teacher and principal for Nashville city schools. In 1933, a tornado that swept through East...
A photograph of the Ross Elementary School, located at 1300 Ordway Place (formerly Grove Avenue) in East Nashville, Tennessee. The notation reads: "Anne Hester entered in First Grade and finished 9th Grade, going then to Hume-Fogg where she...
A portrait photograph of Elizabeth Burgess Buford, a prominent educator and founder of Buford College, a school for young ladies that was first established in Clarksville, Tennessee in the 1880s and subsequently moved to Nashville in 1901. This...
A portrait of an unidentified Meharry Medical College graduate, circa 1900. The school was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College and the first medical school in the South for African Americans. It was chartered...
A photographic view looking towards Vanderbilt University through the archway of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky...
A photographic view looking northeast from Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a...
A photograph of Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 21, 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for women...
A photograph of Scarritt Tower, of Scarritt College for Christian Workers, October 1928. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, in Nashville, Tennessee, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for women Christian...
A photograph of a group of men from American Baptist Theological Seminary. The American Baptist Theological Seminary was originally a training facility for African American Baptist ministers. The men in the photograph are standing in front of...
A photograph of the starting five on the 1969 18th District Champs Basketball Team from Hume-Fogg High School. From left to right: Gail Gillespie, Antonion Williams, Dale Stacey, George Carothers, Raymond Petway. In 1964, Hume-Fogg was the first...
Pictured: “Cameron High School aids scrap drive: students at Cameron High School, 1028 First Avenue, South, have piled up a large scrap heap on the school yard in their patriotic cooperation with the current salvage drive. L. W. Beasley serves...
Announcement of a dance to be held at the close of commencement for the class of 1919. Established in 1883 as a grammar school, Pearl became a high school in the 1897 - 1898 school year. In 1919, Pearl High School was located on 16th Avenue No. at...
A postcard of the Belle H. Bennett Memorial on the campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for...
A postcard of the tower at Scarritt College for Christian Workers. Located on Nineteenth Avenue South, Scarritt College came to Nashville from Kentucky in 1924 as a training school for women Christian missionaries. Like a teaching college...
Named in honor of J.M. Head, mayor of Nashville from 1899 to 1903, Head Elementary School was completed in 1904. Located on 16th Avenue North, E.S. Brugh was the school's first principal. A new school building was built in 1952 to accommodate...
Cavert School opened in September of 1928 for students in grades one through nine. The school was named for Dr. A.J. Cavert who served as principal at Howard, Fogg, Hume, Fall and Warner schools among others. Cavert became a junior high in 1936...
A photograph of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church located at 1700 Heiman Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was erected in 1932 and founded as a mission and a school. The school was one of two Catholic institutions opened by Sister...
A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...