An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
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 photograph of the Andrew Price Memorial United Methodist Church located at 2846 Lebanon Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The roots of the church started around 1850. At that time a group of Methodists organized the Donelson Methodist Episcopal...
A photograph of the B & W Cafeteria on Sixth Avenue North, Nashville Tennessee. The cafeteria was started by Fred R. Webber, Sr. around 1930. Sixth Avenue was a business hub in the late 1930s and 1940s. Thousands of workers came to the cafeteria...
A photograph of the November 14, 1930 bank run on the Tennessee Hermitage National Bank of Nashville, Tennessee (306 Third Avenue North). The photo was taken at about 1 p.m. and the line up at that time extended half a block down Third Avenue and...
A photograph of "women of the Brentwood Methodist
Church who prepared lunch for the group, including Mrs. Milton McArthur, Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. George S. Herbert, Mrs. Ewing Bradford, Mrs. Charles Howell, Sr., who served as chairman, Mrs. Charles...
A photograph of the Nashville City Reservoir, in Nashville, Tennessee, as it was being constructed in 1877. An accompanying article describes the completed structure, as quoted: "The City Reservoir, which was built in 1887, cost the city of...
A postcard of the Union Bus Terminal located at 517 Commerce Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Built in the latter part of the 1930s, this bus terminal exemplified the art deco architecture style of the time period. According to city...
A photograph of the former Craig Memorial Methodist Church located at 530 Twenty-sixth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building has seen many uses over time since its construction in 1926. Originally the structure served as the church...
A cabinet card portrait photograph of Captain Pleas A. Smith, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on the 10th of November, 1841, and was raised on the "Ewing Farm" six miles south of Nashville. At...
A photograph of the former Church of Christ located at Third Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee. This church went through many name changes over the years. In the 1960s the name changed to Third Avenue Church of Christ. In the 1990s the...
A photograph of the former Church of God located at 1003 Monroe Street in Nashville, Tennessee. In the 1960s the name changed to Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith. In the 1980s Nashville city directories note the address as...
A photograph of the Church of God located at 1023 Third Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee. A church of many names, this church began in the 1940s as Church of the First Born. In the 1960s the Nashville city directories record the name as ABC...
A postcard of Church Street at the corner of Seventh Avenue looking east in downtown Nashville around 1918. This corner was one of the busiest corners in the retail section of Nashville during the time, with close proximity to all the theatres and...
A photograph of Clark Memorial Methodist Church, Nashville's oldest African American Church. Located now at 1015 Fourteenth Avenue North, Clark Memorial has had several name and location changes throughout the years. The congregation came into...
A view of the architectural elements of the gable and window design of the Hamilton Parks residence, located at 1706 West End Avenue, in Nashville, Tennessee. This architectural structure is non-extant, having been demolished circa the 1960's. It...