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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Nashville Airport (Berry Field), 1938 March 06

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Title	First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Nashville Airport (Berry Field), 1938 March 06
Personal name	Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Corporate name	American Airlines, inc. Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority--History--Sources
Topical entry	Women Capital City First ladies Presidents' spouses Lecturers Orators Airplanes--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Description	A photograph of First lady Eleanor Roosevelt exiting a plane at the Nashville Airport (Berry Field), 6 March 1938, Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville Banner newspaper headline ran on March 7, 1938: "First Lady Stops Here To Tell Husband 'Alls Well' on Trip", "Crowds Greet Mrs. Roosevelt At Airport". …."Wife of the president paused in Nashville twenty minutes Sunday afternoon on an airplane flight from Washington, D. C. to Washington State on a combination lecture tour and visit to her children. She stepped from the airplane at the airport to send a telegram to her husband at the White House to relieve his possible anxiety over the delay of the plane's arrival, just as any other wife would do. 'Arrived safely. Plane an hour late Love' said the message written at an airport desk as she held a running conversation with the reporters and suffered flashlight photographers without a flinch." Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 3.25 x 4.25 in.
Creator	Nashville Banner staff photographer
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Date	1938-03-06
Type	Still Image; Photographs
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	BN 1938-154
Relation	Nashville Banner Archives
Coverage	1930-1939
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-BN 1938-154