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EHP range 2 section 1 shelf 2
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EHP range 2 section 1 shelf 2
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Safe room shelf 18
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Safe room shelf 18
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, from 1878 to 1998 (bulk 1916-1998) documenting the history of the Nashville Banner newspaper, with isolated items concerning some individual libel cases (1917-1939). Items were originally housed in or with the Banner Clippings Files and were removed or rehoused for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference Files,...
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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 typed manuscript is the working paper for a book to have been titled Behind The Headlines: The Story Within The Story of Hoodlums, Big Wheels and Celebrities. Battle looks back on significant or memorable people, places, and events from his journalistic career with the Nashville Banner newspaper, a career which began in 1943 during World War II and ended with the closing of the paper in 1998. Each folder contains material...
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Workroom range 7 section 8
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Workroom range 7 section 8
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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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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, mostly from 1932-1997, documenting individuals, and used by Nashville Banner reporters for reference in the course of their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference Files, Biography Series has information about notable people...
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, from 1940 to 1987, documenting Davidson County subjects and used by Nashville Banner reporters for reference during their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference Files, Davidson County Series has information about topics,...
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Workroom range 7 section 8
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Workroom range 7 section 8
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Scope and content:The Jack Gunter Civil Rights Photographs feature 87 original black and white photographs taken by Nashville Banner newspaper photographer Jack Gunter from 1957 to 1968. The photographs are arranged chronologically. Undated photographs follow at the end. The bulk of the collection is from 1963 and depicts civil rights demonstrations in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Also included in the collection are single photographs of visiting...
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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: The collection, spanning ca. 1932-ca. 1990 (bulk ca. 1952-ca. 1972), consists of topical subject files and photographs collected by Jack Knox, the editorial cartoonist of the Nashville Banner from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. Present in the collection are several editorial cartoons and caricatures of national and international politicians and statesmen, as well as original sketches that were probably drawn by Jack Knox. Several...
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Nashville Banner Room
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Nashville Banner Room
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Workroom
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Workroom
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Scope and content: To date the largest collection in the Special Collections Division, the Nashville Banner Archives documents the final sixty years or so of a great Nashville newspaper, the Nashville Banner (publication life 1876-1998). After the Banner ceased publication on February 20, 1998, co-owners Irby Simpkins and Brownlee Currey donated the paper's entire morgue -- clippings, photos, negatives, books -- plus many of its awards and artifacts...
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Map room drawer K-4 folder 2
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Map room drawer K-4 folder 2
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Workroom range 5 section 7
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Workroom range 5 section 7
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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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Workroom range 2 section 5
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Workroom range 2 section 5
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Scope and content: Original typescript or manuscript letters written and submitted to the editor of the Nashville Banner newspaper from Jan. 1992 to Jan. 1993 by members of the general public, public figures, and Nashville Banner readers, concerning a wide variety of topics. Some of the letters may have been published in the Banner's editorial pages, although many likely were not.
Subjects vary considerably. Some subjects are seasonal or unique to...
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Workroom
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, spanning 1910 to 1998 but mostly from 1941 to 1974, documenting various subjects about Nashville, Tenn., and used by Nashville Banner newspaper reporters for reference during their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference...
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Workroom
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, spanning 1934 to 1997, documenting various Tennessee subjects and used by Nashville Banner newspaper reporters for reference during their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference Files, Tennessee Series has information about...
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SCC Misc. A/V box 1 item 5
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SCC Misc. A/V box 1 item 5
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Scope and content: Audio recordings of four speeches given by James G. "Jimmy" Stahlman, 1937-1939, primarily on the topic of freedom of the press, and most given when he was president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. One unidentified speech, unrelated to Stahlman, concerns an election in Berry Hill, Tennessee in 1947.