A photograph of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, currently located at 1307 Ireland Street in Nashville, Tennessee, but originally listed as Hopewell Baptist Church, at 918 Fourteenth Avenue North. According to the survey, the congregation was...
A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...
A photograph of Old Hickory Presbyterian Church located at 801 Jones Street in Old Hickory. This church is situated in the heart of Historic Old Hickory Village. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks. The exterior walls are made of...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Martin Brady, conducted on 19 September 2007 by Deanna Larson at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. Brady...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A photograph of the tombstone of William Driver in Nashville City Cemetery, 2000. Driver is credited with nicknaming the American flag "Old Glory." A master mariner, on an 1831 voyage to the South Pacific aboard the 110-ton whaler Charles Doggett,...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a semi-annual meeting of the Middle Tennessee District of the Tennessee Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. They gathered in Nashville and “among those at the...
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...
A postcard of the Hermitage Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The Hermitage Club building was first a downtown residence in between Church and Union Streets at 233 Sixth Avenue North, then called High Street. The builder of the house was Confederate...
1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets appearing on the map with their corresponding...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, cartoonist with the Memphis Commercial Appeal from the early 1930s to circa 1944. This anti-Nazi cartoon depicts the cloud of "D-Day" in the background, while a fearful Hitler has a heavy...