Ann May Hardeman Fort scrapbook, 1937-1940.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

Housed in Small Collections Box 9.

Processing note: Originally housed in small looseleaf binder, unbound and rehoused in 2012.

Condition and handling note: Pages are fragile, and in many cases clippings have come loose from the pages. Handle with great care. Special care should be taken when turning pages, lest the clippings fall off or be damaged.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Small looseleaf scrapbook compiled by Ann May Hardeman Fort (Mrs. Combs Fort) containing newsclippings from 1937-1940, pasted onto plain white sheets of paper. The vast majority of clippings relate to the social life of young women of Nashville from prominent families, including balls, parties, luncheons, and particularly, weddings. Clippings include numerous photographs of young women in wedding or formal social attire, occasionally showing their male companions. The vast majority of photographs from the clippings also include identification information in the caption. The date of the article is sometimes indicated, though often only a year is given.

In addition to the social life and weddings of young women of Nashville, other subjects also include: sculptor William Edmonson; the laying of the cornerstone of West End Methodist Church; the death of James Franklin Jarman (founder of Jarman Shoes); the construction of Old Hickory Blvd.; the razing of Lealand Mansion; and an eyewitness account by Betsy Howe of the crash of the zeppelin Hindenburg at Lakehurst, N.J.

Cite as: Ann May Hardeman Fort Scrapbook, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). Nashville Public Library does not have intellectual property rights to these materials.

Source of acquisition unknown;,Acc. RT-100.

Other materials relating to the Fort family of Nashville may be found in the Cornelia Fort Papers in the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library.

Ann May Hardemann was born on June 25, 1919 in Nashville, Tenn. to Nannie Hensley Overton and William D. Hardeman, Sr. She received her schooling at Robertson Academy, Ward-Belmont, and Vanderbilt University, graduating in 1942. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was the librarian/archivist for the Nashville Banner newspaper. She was a member of West End United Methodist Church and many other organizations. On Aug. 20, 1955, she married Combs Lawson Fort, Sr., and they had a son in 1960, who was named for his father. He was their only child. Both men predeceased her. Mrs. Fort died on Aug. 31, 2009 and was buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

In English

Unknown provenance.

Rehouse;,2012;,Linda Barnickel.

No further accruals are expected.