The Broadcast Music, Inc. building, located at 710 16th Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was officially declared operational on February 15, 1940 in New York City. The company was established by radio executives in...
Country music singer Roy Acuff, pictured with Mayor Beverly Briley. Roy Claxton Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tennessee in 1903. He was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 and was a...
Not a full page will, but rather a strip of letterhead from Merchants Bank, Nashville, inscribed with four names written on the verso: Frank Anderson, J. Winfield Graves, Jno. A Wright, and J. S. Beatle. A noted date is Sept. 18th and the...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to early 1970s. As John Q. Public looks on, President John F. Kennedy holds a giant pair of scissors. One blade of the...