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Scope and content: Materials about Nashville, Tenn. bridges. Includes: "The Design of the Broadway or Sparkman St. Bridge, Nashville, Tenn." by Howard M. Jones, (1909) which contains a number of small engineering drawings; an essay, "The Rise and Fall of Nashville's Suspension Bridge," probably written by Maggie B. Treadway at an unidentified time; a hand-written copy of the text of an inscription on the Hydes Ferry Bridge; and a program from the...
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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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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Impact of Interstate development
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Impact of Interstate development
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Summary: A collection of organizational records of Belmont-Hillsboro Neighbors, Inc., including correspondence, photographs, newsletters and topical research files created by the organization. Also includes numerous publications produced by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The documentary resources, spanning ca. 1970 through ca. 1988, relate to the organizational leadership and activities of the citizens advocacy group,...
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Scope and content: Deed research sheets and color Polaroid photographs, providing architectural and historical information about the Sylvan Park and West Nashville areas of Nashville, Tenn. A planned subdivision at the turn of the 20th century, Sylvan Park was an integral part of the growing manufacturing town of West Nashville, located near the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the Cumberland River, and Charlotte Pike. A number of the early...
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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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Scope and content: Materials include letters, memoirs, scrapbooks, unit histories and unit newsletters, photographs, oral interviews and transcripts, maps, and publications. These materials include some photocopies. The World War II Series of the Veterans History Project Collection emphasizes the participation of Nashville area citizens in the war effort, in both military and civilian capacities. Some materials acquired early in the project came from...