A photograph of the Lindsley Avenue Church of Christ located at 3 Lindsley Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The building permit for this church was obtained by Robert Sharp, a Nashville architect who later worked on Hume-Fogg school. Originally...
Located on Grove Avenue, which later became Ordway Place, Ross School was erected in 1907. The school was named for Marcus M. Ross who worked as a teacher and principal for Nashville city schools. In 1933, a tornado that swept through East...
A photograph of Vasso and Hermes Pan, sister and brother who were visiting Nashville. An article titled "Noted Hollywood Dance Director Visits Nashville," ran in the 10 February 1939 edition of the Nashville Banner newspaper. "Hermes Pan, native...
An autographed hand-signed photograph of Joseph T. Macpherson, a Metropolitan Opera Company bass-baritone, from Amqui, Tennessee. This photograph is inscribed to his Nashville voice teacher Signor G. S. de Luca with the notation: "To Signor G. S....
A photograph of the Ross Elementary School, located at 1300 Ordway Place (formerly Grove Avenue) in East Nashville, Tennessee. The notation reads: "Anne Hester entered in First Grade and finished 9th Grade, going then to Hume-Fogg where she...
A photograph of the historic Frost Building (Baptist Sunday School Board, Southern Baptist Convention) at 161 Eighth Avenue North (Rosa L. Parks Boulevard) in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1996. The front office of the building was named for...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his separation from service as a Marine photographer in...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Joseph R. O'Donnell, conducted on 7 July 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. After his separation from service as a Marine photographer in...
A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), celebrating the 92nd birthday of Mrs. Dorsey C. Pierce. Her husband, Dorsey C. Pierce, worked for the Southern Express Company. Forms part of the Nashville Times newspaper collection. 1 digital...
Nashville Banner reporter Dick Battle (pictured on right) and two photojournalists on a helicopter flight at the airport, November 1954. Battle came to Nashville from his native St. Louis in 1916. He graduated from Goodlettsville High School in...
A photograph of student nurses at Nashville's General Hospital attending babies in the nursery. Student nurses were responsible for many duties including caring for newborns, surgical nursing, and working in the diet kitchen and sometimes even...
A photograph of a collection of a portion of the original columns and capitals from the Tennessee State Capitol Building in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was designed by architect William Strickland (1788-1854) and built between 1845 and 1859,...
An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, cartoonist with the Memphis Commercial Appeal from the early 1930s to circa 1944. This anti-Nazi cartoon depicts the cloud of "D-Day" in the background, while a fearful Hitler has a heavy...