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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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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 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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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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Tennessee was a remote place in 1810. By 1850, some of the most influential people in America had come from Tennessee, such as Sequoyah, David Crockett, the filibuster William Walker and the slave trader Isaac Franklin. Learn about the state's first steamboats and its initial telegraph message. Read newly discovered accounts from the Trail of Tears. Hop along the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and relive the glory and tragedy. Author and columnist...
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Scope and content: Seven hand-colored limited edition prints produced in 1979-1980 of historical engravings of various historic buildings and scenes in Nashville, Tenn., signed and numbered by the colorist, and ranging in size from 19 x 25 in. to 22 x 30 in. Steamboat on the Cumberland and Nashville Inn were produced for Nashville's Century III celebration in 1979, and are mayor's proofs, signed by Mayor Richard H. Fulton. Three prints were specially...
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Scope and content: Photocopy of a diary created by an unidentified person, which documents the colporteur voyage of Middle Tennesseans Gideon H. Lowe, Malkijah S. Vaughan (a Presbyterian or Cumberland Presbyterian minister) and Edmund W. Vaughan from Dec. 10, 1847 to Mar. 13, 1848. Colporteurs were essentially traveling salesmen who sought to sell and distribute Christian literature to the masses. This expedition left "Lowe's woodyard" on the Cumberland...