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Scope and content: Various types of advertising correspondence, including letters, postcards, testimonials, advertising samples and artwork, and similar materials, 1891-1915, apparently compiled by Nashville Banner business manager, Edgar M. Foster. Collection also includes two items relating to the Nashville Banner excursion train to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, in San Francisco, Calif. June 25-July 17, 1915.
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Scope and content: Includes a variety of items relating to parks, primarily in Nashville, but also nearby state parks and others. Most of these parks are operated by local or state government, but not all parks fall into such categories. Most items are brochures, usually illustrated, and often with park maps, when appropriate. Brochures often highlight park events, recreational or educational opportunities, facilities, historical significance, flora...
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Scope and content: A small collection of baseball scorecards from Nashville Vols games from 1936-1940. Scorecards contain lineups with player names and positions, and have been completed to record the action of each game by fan Mel Dodson. Opponents include teams from around the Southeast, including Chattanooga, Memphis, and Little Rock. All scorecards are from Vols home games, except for one away game held in Memphis. One scorecard from May 19,...
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Scope and content: The Metropolitan Weekly was an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. beginning in September 1980. Format was tabloid sized, with photographs, news articles, opinion pieces, and advertising relevant to the African-American community, with emphasis on the geographic area of North Nashville. Although desiring to grow in to a weekly publication, as reflected in its name, the newspaper generally published twice a month...
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Scope and content: Variety of materials documenting events, celebrations, and observances related to various holidays. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item.
Holidays represented include: Christmas; Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, also known as All Souls' Day); and Easter. Christmas materials include a few booklets of Christmas carols, some of which...
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Scope and content: A group of four different titles of Nashville community newspapers published by Norma Condra in the 1980s. These newspapers were distributed weekly for free, and had their origin as a shopper type of publication which primarily published advertisements, consisting of display ads for businesses, as well as classified ads from individuals who were selling cars, real estate, pets, offering services, and other types of advertising....
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Scope and content: Sheet music published or distributed in Nashville, Tenn. A few items may have been published elsewhere but bear connection to Nashville through subject matter, illustrations, or printing house. Most items date from the late 1800s with a few from the early 1900s. Publishers featured prominently in the collection include: R. Dorman & Co.; Jas. A. McClure; Frank G. Fite; Jesse French; and H.A. French. Printing firms include: Brandon...
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Scope and content: A variety of material relating to Nashville, Tenn. area hotels. Items include brochures, advertisements, menus, programs from special events, including holiday parties and gatherings, and a variety of other materials.
Some items worth special mention include: grand opening program for the Andrew Jackson Hotel (1925); materials relating to the 100th anniversary of the Hermitage Hotel (2009-2010); a ticket to the Christmas Dance...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of materials relating to the Nashville arts scene, including items about art events, individual artists, galleries, museums, exhibitions, contests, public art projects, and related subjects, including special events and venues such as Fifth Avenue of the Arts; First Saturday Art Crawl; Arts at the Airport; and similar venues or events, many of them located in downtown Nashville. Many items include artist biographies...
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Scope and content: Includes company histories; company publications and newsletters; annual reports; brochures; catalogs; advertisements; speeches; correspondence; biographies of local business leaders; and related materials. Emphasis is upon businesses in Nashville and nearby areas. Some items provide community information such as population and industry figures, and in some instances, include information about war industries during World War II.
Several...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of materials concerning the political life of Nashville, Tenn., mostly from the late twentieth century, and focusing on political candidates and specific political issues. Election materials are arranged by year and thereunder subdivided into the categories of "candidates" and "issues." Other items include materials from political parties, presidential races, newsletters, and voting guides. Quantity of materials ranges...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of material relating to health and medicine as practiced in the Nashville area. Subjects include: hospitals, medicine and pharmacy, health and wellness, papers on the history of medicine, specific diseases and ailments, public health, mental illness, particular specialties of medical practice, and a variety of related subjects. Formats include: brochures, reports, statistics, advertisements, almanacs, manuscripts,...
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of Take One newspaper, published in Nashville, Tenn. Holdings begin with vol. 1 issue 5 (Dec. 1977/Jan. 1978) when it was published on a monthly basis, to vol. 3 no. 13 (Aug. 13, 1979), by which time it had become a weekly.
The range of topics covered in each issue generally include: personality profiles and interviews; coverage of local television and radio stations; short fiction and essays; issues and topics...
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Scope and content: Includes a wide variety of material relating to various fairs, festivals and events held in Nashville, Tennessee, spanning the time period from 1883 to 2015, with very few items dating prior to 1971. Materials include programs, posters, schedules, advertisements, invitations, brochures, postcards and similar items. Types of events include annual festivals relating to particular ethnic or nationality groups; food; and some music...
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Abstract: Includes a wide variety of material relating to residences, including named homes, apartments, condominiums, and adaptive reuse of historic buildings as residences. Includes some neighborhood or area guides and directories to real estate, rentals, historic homes, and related resources.
Scope and content: Materials include sales, rental, or promotional brochures, some with floor plans; tourist or historically oriented brochures and booklets...
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Scope and content: Includes a wide variety of material relating to professional, amateur and recreational sports, individual sports teams, general sports activities (mostly for adults), seasonal and other recreational activities, amusement parks and similar location-based recreation, marathons and single-event sports, sports stadiums and venues, and related subjects. Formats include promotional material, programs, recreation guides, registration or...
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Scope and Content: This collection documents various advertising and publicity activities for movie theaters owned by the Crescent Amusement Company and managed by Russell Parham Sr. The date span of the material is 1929-1983 with the bulk being 1930-1950. The majority of the collection focuses on the Princess Theatre in Nashville, with a number of news clippings and photographs featuring advertising campaigns for specific films. In addition to the...
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Series I. Edward Webb consists of items dating from 1901 to 1913 which document the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), including some newsletters; a variety of business cards, advertising correspondence, and other ephemera especially relating to tailors, hardware and dry goods stores, and other merchants in downtown Nashville; a few items from 1905 about the Nashville Grays militia company, and a few programs relating to performing arts. Particularly...