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Workroom range 3 section 4
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Scope and content: A collection of three scrapbooks, featuring newspaper clippings about The Little Theatre Guild, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee. The articles were published in "The Banner," and "The Tennessean" newspapers, ca. 1921-ca. 1932. The main theatrical performance venue was Hillsboro Theater.
Scrapbook #1, ca. 1927-ca. 1928, contains clippings created by the Publicity Department of the Little Theatre Guild, with information about theatrical...
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Workroom range 3 section 2
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Workroom range 3 section 2
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Scope and content: This small collection of theatre programs and newsletters concentrates on productions at the Orpheum Theatre of Nashville, Tenn. which starred Miss Billy Long and her Players. Her specialty was apparently stories with a southern or Western theme, though she also appeared in other types of theatricals. A few newsclippings, which apparently originated from a scrapbook, include photographs of her, as do a number of the programs or...
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EHP range 1 and 2 section 4, 5 and 6
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EHP range 1 and 2 section 4, 5 and 6
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West storage range 5 section 3 and 4
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West storage range 5 section 3 and 4
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West storage ranges 4 section 4
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West storage ranges 4 section 4
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Scope and content: Materials include recordings, souvenir brochures, show posters, sheet music, books, and periodicals, tracing American popular music and musical theater from the mid-1800s into the twenty-first century. The sheet music collection of approximately 2,500 pieces includes the oldest items (dozens from the 1800s) and is strongest for the era of 1900-1930 popular songs, the heyday of Irving Berlin, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Jerome Kern,...
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Workroom range 5 section 8
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Workroom range 5 section 8
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Scope and content: The collection consists of two theatrical scrapbooks and individually foldered photographs that belonged to the American actress Madge West Joseph (1892-1985). The primary and secondary sources include biographical newspaper articles, theatrical programs, theatrical reviews, photographs, correspondence, telegrams, and ephemera. The collection documents the actress's involvement with Nashville theatrical guilds and organizations...
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SCC oral histories
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SCC oral histories
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Corinne Frazier Calhoun Bailey, conducted on the 14 Feb. 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Bailey, the daughter of Nashville jeweler Tyler Calhoun, discusses the Tennessee Centennial of 1897; her father's business and how it failed during the early 1920s; her early memories of downtown Nashville;...
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West storage range 2 section 1
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West storage range 2 section 1
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Scope and content: A collection of six scrapbooks and one diary presumably compiled by Meriwether Liston Lewis, a Nashville Carnegie Library reference librarian and a published author, spanning the dates ca. 1901-ca. 1954. The materials document Nashville theatre, primarily about theatrical productions at the Vendome Theatre and the Grand Opera House, ca. 1901, United States history, international and national politics, the Paris Peace Conference...
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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, flyers, invitations, posters, handbills, newsletters, and a variety of other materials by and about Nashville area performing arts, including venues and specific performances and performers. The vast majority of materials throughout the collection are programs or promotional flyers and posters. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Some items are photocopies.
The collection...
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Scope and content: Reminiscences of artist Meyer Wolfe as dictated to his nephew, Dr. Lawrence Wolfe. A three-page biographical sketch of Wolfe is followed by Wolfe's fifty-page reminiscences of Nashville during the first part of the 20th century. The reminiscences are divided into chapters which correspond primarily to different geographic areas of Nashville: Capitol Avenue; Public Square; College Street; Union Street; Cherry Street or Fourth...
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Workroom range 3 Section 5
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Workroom range 3 Section 5
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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...
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SCC oral histories
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SCC oral histories
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Scope and content: The 1910-1935 Oral History Project is comprised of 29 extant audio recordings conducted from 1980 to 1982 by two staff members of Historic Nashville, Inc. Focus of the interviews is upon lived experiences during the early decades of the twentieth century, particularly from the perspective of upper class and upper middle class, white, well-educated individuals.
General topics include: childhood, courtship and marriage, social life,...
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Map room drawer K-4 folder 15
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Map room drawer K-4 folder 15
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Workroom range 3 section 1
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Workroom range 3 section 1
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Scope and content: A variety of materials, related mostly to the performing arts in Nashville, Tenn. in the early 1920s. Items include performance programs, news clippings, and other material. Some items have minor damage, and some appear to have been removed from a scrapbook or show other signs of having been glued down in the past. Many of the programs contain photographic illustrations.
Subjects include classical music, dance, and singing, including...
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Workroom range 4 section 6
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Scope and content: The Nashville Community Band Photographs collection includes nine (9) black and white oversized images pertaining to Nashville, Tennessee during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Five photographs show images of carnival or entertainment-oriented bands; two photographs appear to be military-oriented bands; and another two photographs contain images related to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897.
Images of...
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Scope and content: Manuscripts, some hand-written, some typescript, of numerous works by noted female Tennessee author, Will Allen Dromgoole, dating from approximately 1898 to 1914, with much undated material. Genres include novels, plays, and short stories, as well as a number of unidentified fragments.
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Scope and content: This collection documents the many recitals, performances, and musical revues co-produced in Nashville by Sarah Jeter and Louise Smith between 1927 and 1940 in the course of their affiliation with Ward-Belmont, the Studio of Dancing, the School of Dancing of the Nashville Conservatory of Music, and the Dance Center. Also documented is information about their schools, their teaching, and performances by their students, as well as...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials about Jewish institutions and Jewish life in Nashville, Tenn. Most folders contain only a single item. Subjects include: a list of Jewish marriages in Davidson County from 1855-1900 compiled by Fedora Small Frank; items related to various Jewish-related events, such as museum exhibits, lectures, etc.; several items describing the Archives of the Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, located...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials documenting various ethnic groups and nationalities in Nashville. Most items date from the early 21st century. Also includes some materials from organizations who assist new residents from other countries, educate the public about languages and cultures, or aid foreign visitors and immigrants in acculturation to the United States and Middle Tennessee in particular. Quantity of materials is generally less than...
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
976.855 D712nj
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976.855 D712nj
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
976.855 D712nj
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976.855 D712nj
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
976.855 D712nj
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976.855 D712nj
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Nashville�s Jewish community traces its beginning to 1795 with the birth of Sarah Myers, the first Jewish child born here. Her parents, Benjamin and Hannah Hays Myers, were both from prominent pre�Revolutionary War families in New England and stayed in Nashville just one year before moving to Virginia. The next few settlers�Simon Pollock, a doctor, in 1843; the Frankland family in 1845; Andrew Smolniker and Dr. H. Fischel, a dentist, in 1848;...
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Archives - Adult Reference
Archives 296.0976855 R812s
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Archives 296.0976855 R812s
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Special Collections - Tennesseana
Special Coll. 296.0976855 R812s
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Special Coll. 296.0976855 R812s
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Special Coll. DVD 976.855 C2775
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Special Coll. DVD 976.855 C2775
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Special Coll. VIDEO 976.855 C2775
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Special Coll. VIDEO 976.855 C2775
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Special Coll. 976.855 H11g
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