Then and Now scrapbook, 1949-1950.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

Housed with unrelated collection: United Daughters of the Confederacy General William B. Bate Chapter Scrapbooks and Essays.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Scrapbook (unbound and housed in two folders) of clippings and ephemera named for the "Then and Now" articles published in the "Nashville Tennessean Magazine," in 1949 and 1950, featuring a photographic history of Nashville scenes of the 1880s in comparison to the "now" of 1949 and 1950. The older photographs originated from the studios of Otto B. Giers and C. C. Giers, commercial photographers who lived and worked in Nashville. Other pictures published in the series were furnished by Nashville citizens, as named in the captions. The comparative views depict scenes of the downtown residential and commercial districts from 1884 compared to 1949 contemporary scenes of the following locations: Union and Summer street (Union and Fifth Avenue); Market street, north from Broadway (Second Avenue); south Vine Street (depicting the Vine Street Temple in 1884) in contrast to the later commercial development of Seventh Avenue, south in 1949; Nashville's Public Square circa 1914 and 1884 in comparison to 1949; and other pictures depicting Church Street and Polk Avenue; Cherry Street (Fourth Avenue); Park Street; Sixth Avenue; and the "Medical Corner" at Seventh Avenue and Church Street. Includes a newsprint reproduction of the "McGavock Map," the oldest extant map of the Nashville vicinity, made in 1786 by David McGavock, a surveyor and large land owner. Other topics include the McKendree Methodist Church, the streetcar strike, and a published picture of the Waverly Place & Glendale Park engine and coach in Nashville. A few illustrated postcards or decorative images, such as flowers, also appear on some pages.

Cite as: Then and Now Scrapbook, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code)

Source of acquisition unknown;,Acc. RT-100

In English

Unknown provenance.

Unbind and rehouse;,2011;,Linda Barnickel.

No further accruals are expected.