A bookplate advertising Setliff & Company, a wholesale bookseller on Church Street. According to Nashville city directories, the Setliff business was started in 1867 by Abraham Setliff in the Commercial Hotel building located at 33 Cedar Street...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the annual Red Cross roll call. The caption reads: “More than 600 women made the census enumerators look like a bunch of pikers as they started the annual Red Cross roll call today. This...
A captioned photo, published in the Nashville Times (1940), about “three city firemen who were overcome while fighting a $75,000 blaze which damaged Everett Beasley Dry Goods Company at 304-306 Broad Street Monday afternoon. The fire started...
A color postcard of Lower Broad Street (now Broadway), near the Ryman Auditorium, where country music started in Nashville and country music stars were often seen prior to performances. The street has some of the oldest buildings in town and is a...
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. This drawing...
A photograph of a portion of the children who attended the Nashville Children's Theatre Carnival. This excerpt ran with the Nashville Banner newspaper story on May 14, 1941 about the event: "The parking space at the side of the Community Playhouse...
A photograph of an aerial view of the Nashville Bridge Company with the Shelby Street Bridge and downtown Nashville, Tennessee, in the background. The company was started in 1902 by Arthur J. Dyer, who graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in...
A photograph of anti-segregation demonstrators during the Freedom March, 18th Avenue North and Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tennessee, March 23, 1963. Leading the march is John R. Lewis and Archie E. Allen. The Freedom March was sponsored by the...
A photograph of Arlington United Methodist Church located at 1360 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The church was started as a Sunday school for neighborhood children in 1873. Later that year children and adults began meeting for...
A photograph of Belmont United Methodist Church located at 2007 Acklen Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Belmont United Methodist underwent extensive remodeling during a $1.6 million renovation that started in 1987 and was completed in 1991. The...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
A photograph of Cleveland Street Baptist Church located at 608 Cleveland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was founded in 1889 as a small mission known as North Street Baptist Church. It was started by the Reverend William Bailey in a...
A photograph of Glendale Baptist Church located at 1020 Glendale Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. This church started as a mission of Belmont Heights Baptist Church in 1948 and was officially chartered as an independent congregation on March 11,...
A photograph of Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church located at 2708 Jefferson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. Historically called Jefferson Street Baptist, this church's congregation was founded in 1887 when a coffin maker started a Sunday...
A photograph of Junior League volunteers and children painting a canvas to become a prop for their upcoming performance of Hans Brinker, which was presented December 15-18, 1937. Left to Right: Margaret Philips on ladder, Jane McKelvey Harwell...
A photograph of Otter Creek Church of Christ located at 5253 Granny White Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1929 with 28 people attending services in a home on Otter Creek Road. The first church, built in 1930, was...
A photograph of Policeman, Sgt. Lonnie G. Martin directing traffic outside of the Davidson County Court House circa 1930. The courthouse was designed in 1857 by Francis Strickland, son of William Strickland, who built the State Capitol. ...
A photograph of Printer's Alley, located between Church and Union Streets and Third and Fourth Avenues, in Nashville, Tennessee, as it appeared circa September 1973. Pictured are some of the popular nightlife places in the alley: The Brass Rail...
A photograph of Ray of Hope Community Church, formerly Meridian Street Methodist Church, located at 901 Meridian Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The rear part of the building was completed in 1925, while the front part, now the current sanctuary,...
A photograph of St. Augustine Episcopal Chapel located at 200 Twenty-fourth Avenue South on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. This West End neighborhood chapel was started in the mid 1950s with seed money from nearby St....