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Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., 1976 August 18

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Title	Excerpt 2 from oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., 1976 August 18
Personal name	Creighton, Wilbur F., 1906-2004--Interviews; Conley, Sarah Ward, 1859-1944
Corporate name	Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition (1897 : Nashville, Tenn.) George Moore and Sons (Firm : Nashville, Tenn.) Women's Building (Nashville, Tenn.)
Topical entry	Architecture Buildings Popular Culture Buildings--Tennessee--Nashville Historic buildings--Tennessee--Nashville Architects--Tennessee--Nashville Building construction--Tennessee--Nashville Exhibition buildings--Tennessee--Nashville Women architects--Tennessee--Nashville Lost architecture--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Tennessee--Centennial celebrations, etc. Nashville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs
Description	An excerpt from an oral history interview with Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project: Oral History. Creighton discusses the Women's Building, part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897, and how it was designed by female architect and artist Sarah Ward Conley and built by contractors George Moore and Sons. The complete interview, as well as an index, is available in the repository.
Creator	Creighton, Wilbur F., 1906-2004 (Interviewee); Wells, Ann (Interviewer)
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Date	1976-08-18
Type	Sound; Oral histories
Format	audio/mp3 (709 KB; 45 sec.)
Identifier	HNITCPCreightonclip2
Source	Excerpted from: HNITCPCreighton audio cassette recording converted to mp3 format in 2006.
Language	English
Relation	Tennessee Centennial project: oral history
Coverage	1970-1979
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed Stacks-HNITCPCreighton