A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the death of two men who fell from scaffolding. The caption reads: “Two men traveled the course of this white line to their death when scaffolding gave way as they chinked cracks in the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “These formidable-looking Army planes, above, swooped down from the sky over Nashville to take on more gas and oil at Berry Field before striking out for McComb, Miss., on their way to Uncle...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the new Elks new dining facility. The caption reads: “Over 200 Elks were present at a dinner session held at the order’s new $15,000 Teak Room and Dining Room on Sixth Avenue, North, last...
A photograph of a terra cotta design on the south side of the Elks Lodge building at 310 6th Avenue North. The building was the home to Lodge no. 72 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks (BPOE) beginning in 1904, serving various...
A photograph of the Sam Davis Hotel being imploded on 16 February 1985. It was located at 132 Seventh Avenue North and corner of Commerce Street, Nashville, Tennessee. In about 15 seconds the explosives sent the 56-year-old hotel down into its...
The Farmers’ Market board, photographed with Mayor Briley on July 26th, 1964. Pictured from left to right are: E. L. Strasser, Sr., Sam Davis Bell, Sr., Mayor Briley, Joe W. Bush, and James Hester. Since its inception on the town square in the...
Mayor Ben West speaking at the Farmers’ Market, September, 1954. Since its inception on the town square in the early 1800’s, the Farmers’ Market has been a vital part of Nashville life. There have been several venues, for example in the...
Pictured: “ Wrought iron gates on way to scrap pile: these picturesque iron gates and another pair just like them, located on the old Keith estate on Harding Road, now owned by Abe Olshine, will shortly be made into less ornate but more emphatic...
Pictured: “Scrap literally rolls in:” A few minutes after the Highland Heights Junior High School was entered in the Banner scrap contest by Principal James C. Armistead, “Colonel” Dewey Russell (second from left) of the school’s Junior...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville minister Dr. Frank F. Drowota, Jr., conducted on 20 November 1980 by Helen Drowota as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Drowota, a native of England and the...
A photograph of the Romanesque building, located at 315 Fourth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee that housed the Vanderbilt Law Department and part of the Vanderbilt School of Dentistry in the late 1800's and early 1900's. By 1919, an addition was...
A color postcard of the Jefferson Street Bridge on the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, showing its metal truss design. No longer extant, the bridge was demolished in 1990 to make way for a new Jefferson Street Bridge that could handle...
A photograph of the old Elks Lodge no. 72, located at 310 6th Avenue North, bordered by Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The lodge was home to the Elks, beginning in 1904, serving numerous community functions and charity projects...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 09 February 1981 and the 13 February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Avery, the...
A photograph of Lockeland Baptist Church located at 1601 Holly Street, Nashville, Tennessee. The Lockeland Baptist congregation was founded in 1903, and according to the Sacred Sites Project survey form, the main church was built in 1929. A...
A photograph of the opening of Cain-Sloan Department Store's new facility. A crowd of more than 500 persons stood in the early morning chill on Church Street to hear John Sloan, president of Cain-Sloan Co., officially open the firm's new...