A photograph of "The Business and Professional Women's Club of the Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA, in cooperation with the local USO, Friday night opened what is planned to be a series of camp show entertainments for airmen at Sewart Air Force...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “An attractive annual affair is the horse show sponsored by the Junior Riding Club, that will be held Friday and Saturday nights at the Tennessee State Fair Grounds, with a special children’s...
A photograph of two pilots, Richard "Bulgey" Dotterer (left) and Clarence E. Louden, during World War II. This photograph was later used in a tape for national broadcast that set out to show the everyday life of men serving in the war. Dotterer...
Excerpts from an interview with Nashville businessman, Thomas Charles ("T.C.") Jones, conducted on 10 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. Jones discusses success playing softball and how it...
A photograph of the historic Glen Leven home, located in Nashville, Tennessee at 4000 Franklin Road, as it appeared circa 1973. This ancestral home of the Thompson family was built in 1857 by John Thompson, son of Thomas Thompson, the pioneer...
A photograph of the Paramount Theatre at 721-727 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee circa 1930. The marquee advertises "Gary Cooper & Marlene Deitrich - Morocco - C. Sharpe Minor at the Organ - Eddie Canter." The $500,000 theater opened November...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Carol Warren conducted on November 03, 2011 by Bettina Warkentin as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Carol Warren is a musician whose Franklin home flooded during the May 2010 flood while...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The caption reads: “Nashville is not going to tolerate unclean streets, alleys, backyards, etc., this summer, if the Junior Chamber of Commerce has anything...
Celebrity entertainer Rosemary Clooney, as she appeared at the WSM Sunday Down South Show, and the Grand Ole Opry at Ryman Auditorium. The performance date was in February, 1953. She also met Mayor and Mrs. Ben West at the Richland Club. A year...
Edwin W. Craig, Chairman of National Life and Accident Insurance Company, receives a resolution from Mayor Ben West on May 3rd, 1962. Craig advised L&A’s board to venture into radio as a good marketing tool, and WSM-AM radio was born. Soon, the...
Some of the student models are pictured with Mayor Briley, promoting the Castner-Knott’s “Fashion Happening,” with “60 Models: Guys and Gals from Nashville High Schools and Colleges,” and “It’s a Happening,” at the War Memorial...
A gala opening of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
An exterior view of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
An exterior view of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1967. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
An exterior view of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum building, located on Music Row (Music Square East and Division Street) circa 1973. This original facility would include educational programs, the CMF Press and CMF Records, the Country...
A photograph of coupled Ionic columns and archway of the Hermitage Hotel, 231 Sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by Tennessee architect J. Edwin Carpenter (1867-1932) in the Beaux Arts style and built between 1908...
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...
Pictured: A big canvas circus tent and a small crowd viewing the show from near the posts. Ringling Brothers Circus performed at Nashville, Tennessee in 1938. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs Collection. 1 photograph negative : b & w ;...
Pictured: “Cannon balls donated: these six-inch, solid cast-iron cannon balls, Civil War relics recovered from construction work on the old National Casket Company factory, on the site now occupied by the Tennessee Central Railway Station, are to...
A photograph of Tom Tichenor and marionette (string) puppeteers Mark Ketterson and Emma Hayes Wade (pictured left to right), performing in the Children's Division of the Nashville Public Library, circa 1973. Tom Tichenor began his career as a...