Pictured: “Rosemont ‘Scrappers’ compete for Banner prize: one of the first entries in the Banner scrap contest, the pupils at Rosemont School are today hard at work to win their share of the $2,000 War Bond prizes. Seen surrounding their...
Pictured: “Neighborhood group piles up scrap: four school children have canvassed the Twenty-eighth Avenue, South, neighborhood with the large pile above resulting. The children are shown as they helped load the nearly 1,000 pounds of salvage on...
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edwin Dozier are pictured at the reception at the Woman’s Club, Thursday evening, which followed their wedding at the First Church of the Nazarene. Mrs. Dozier is the former Miss Loraze Duncan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P....
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edwin Dozier are pictured at the reception at the Woman’s Club, Thursday evening, which followed their wedding at the First Church of the Nazarene. Mrs. Dozier is the former Miss Loraze Duncan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P....
Pictured: Walter Seigenthaler, Circulation Director for the Newspaper Printing Corporation, which served both The Banner and The Tennessean newspapers of Nashville, Tennessee. Photo dated 1940. Forms part of Record Group 412, Photographs...
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...
A photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Street enrolling their daughter, Lajuanda (second girl) and a friend at Glenn Elementary School, Nashville, Tennessee, 27 August 1957. Enrollment came under a court-approved plan, which called for...
A photograph of Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr., at First Baptist Church, 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, March 1, 1960. Having served as field representative for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Reverend Lawson was the key organizer and...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...
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...
Harris-Davis and Company, J. L. Turner and Son, J. S. Reeves and Company, and D. F. Siler Company were among the buildings that once delineated the outer perimeter of the public square in Nashville. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville lawyer and judge Alfred Thompson Adams, conducted on 16 September 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Adams, who served Nashville as...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World War II and...
A color postcard showing a bird's eye view of Nashville from Polk Flats. Polk Flats was an apartment building in Nashville, situated in between seventh and eighth avenues in the heart of downtown. The complex was built in the 1890s to take the...
A postcard of Castle Hall, the meeting place for the Joel A. Battle Lodge. Col. Joel A. Battle was a Knight of Pythias, and to show the high esteem in which his brethren of this order held him, several years following his death in 1872, a lodge...
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...
Advertisement for the sale of "104 Acres of Land in Davidson County, about twelve miles from Nashville, one mile from the Murfreesborough Turnpike, upon which Seaborn Gay now lives." 8 x 10 in.
A photograph of Belmont Church, now located at 64 Music Square East. Originally the church was called Belmont Avenue Church of Christ and had an address of 64 Sixteenth Avenue South. While today the church has a non-denominational congregation,...
A photograph of the Cathedral of the Incarnation located at 2015 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. The construction of this Catholic church began in 1907. Bishop Byrne first built the rectory, then the school (St. Albert Hall), and finally...