A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a musical program: “McKendree Methodist Church will be the scene Sunday evening at 7 o’clock of a musical program presented by the church choir. Besides Easter hymns, the choir composed...
The residence known as “Bonnie Brae,” once rested on twenty-two acres along the hillside of the present-day southwestern corner of Woodlawn Drive and I-440. The Villager Condominiums stand there now. “Bonnie Brae” derives its name from...
Aerial photographs of the Nashville airport, circa the 1960s. In 1961 officials opened a new 145,900-square-foot terminal with a modern control tower that boasted state-of-the-art electronics. In 1963 the existing runway was extended, and...
Overton Hall, “the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Maxwell Overton was built in 1900 by Mr. Overton. It is after the Tudor style of architecture for manor houses, and stands in the midst of a large park, thickly wooded with giant forest trees …...
A Christmas card of the second “Fairview” home of the Foster family, located on the Hillsboro Road at Abbott Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. After the first home was destroyed by fire circa 1933, this home was built upon the foundation of the...
An aerial view of the Lockheed “Hudson” bombers at the Nashville Municipal Airport, April 29th, 1941. A published article from the “Nashville Banner” newspaper the following day: “Bombers for Britain concentrated at Airport: With...
An aerial view of the Lockheed “Hudson” bombers at the Nashville Municipal Airport, April 29th, 1941. A published article from the “Nashville Banner” newspaper the following day: “Bombers for Britain concentrated at Airport: With...
An aerial view of the Lockheed “Hudson” bombers at the Nashville Municipal Airport, April 29th, 1941. A published article from the “Nashville Banner” newspaper the following day: “Bombers for Britain concentrated at Airport: With...
An aerial view of the Lockheed “Hudson” bombers at the Nashville Municipal Airport, April 29th, 1941. A published article from the “Nashville Banner” newspaper the following day: “Bombers for Britain concentrated at Airport: With...
An aerial view of the Lockheed “Hudson” bombers at the Nashville Municipal Airport, April 29th, 1941. A published article from the “Nashville Banner” newspaper the following day: “Bombers for Britain concentrated at Airport: With...
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...
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...
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...
A photograph of Belle Meade United Primitive Baptist Church, located at 1018 Forty Second Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1965, while the congregation was formed in 1891. The denomination of the congregation is...
A photograph of Belmont Heights Baptist Church, located at 2100 Belmont Boulevard, on the southern edge of Belmont University's campus in Nashville, Tennessee. The church has had two sanctuaries. The first sanctuary has a foundation made of...
A photograph of Calvary Baptist Church located at 101 Bowling Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. The church was built sometime in the 1940s. According to the cornerstone the congregation was founded in 1906. The exterior walls of this church are red...
A photograph of Charlotte Avenue Church of Christ, built in 1921. This church is located at 4508 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville Tennessee. It is the second structure erected to house its members at the corner of Charlotte and Forty-sixth Avenues....
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 postcard of the Main Building at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. In an effort to create a major Southern teachers' college, the grounds and buildings of the former Peabody Normal School were donated to the George...