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Scope and content: Photographs of Nashville, Tennessee circa 1853 - 1985. The oldest images in the collection are from the mid 1800s and are taken from books and other sources; the bulk are from the time period from 1930 to 1955. All of the photographs have been identified, and many include the year and the location. The collection consists of ninety four scanned black-and-white photographs printed on twenty-four contact sheets. The scans are from...
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Scope and content: Seven audio-recorded interviews with lifelong Nashville residents, most of whom were born in the early twentieth century. Focus is upon East Nashville, formerly known as Edgefield, but also includes downtown Nashville and other nearby locales.
Angie (Cantrell) Merritt Donelson (later Ezell) tells about her family history, and the business operations of her first husband, Gilbert Merritt, who owned Southern Woodenware, located in...
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 with individuals associated with buildings and businesses located on Nashville's Second Avenue North, known in the nineteenth century as Market Street.
Mrs. Frances Eakes - One page of notes, only; no audio. Lived in the Silver Dollar Saloon in 1925-1926 when her father, Willis W. Agee ran a drugstore on the premises. Eakes recalls the flood of 1926-1927 and "shanties" where...
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Scope and content: Seven small photograph albums, and numerous loose pages from one or two additional albums, containing a total of approximately 600 black and white snapshots showing the James E. and Mary (Williamson) Wilson family of Nashville, Tenn., their children, and grandchildren. Most of the photographs are from the 1897-1919 time period, but some photographs can be dated to 1939. Only one image is formally identified, although research by...
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