Marguerite Winstead Greene bridal book, 1906.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

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

Housed with Marriage and Obituary Scrapbook, an unrelated collection.

Pages are brittle and should be handled with care.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: One bound volume, entitled: "The Bride's Book: A Souvenir of the Wedding," illustrated by F.M. Spiegle and others, and published by Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York, copyrighted 1900. The book has forms on each page, to be completed by the bride. Only a portion of the book has been filled out. It documents the marriage of Marguerite Winstead and Harold Millard Greene who wed on Sept. 26, 1906 in Nashville, Tenn. Information primarily includes a list of wedding gifts; signatures of wedding guests; and news clippings describing the wedding and the couple's friends and family. A loose newsclipping, showing an unidentified couple, is in the front of the book, but it appears to date from the 1920s.

Cite as: Marguerite Winstead Greene Bridal Book, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

No photocopies due to fragile nature of materials.

Source of acquisition unknown;,Acc. RT-100.

Marguerite Winstead was born in July 1886, the daughter of Walter O. and Bettie M. Winstead. She was engaged to Harold Millard Greene on Aug. 26, 1904, and they wed on Sept. 26, 1906 in Nashville, Tenn. J.P. McFerrin performed the ceremony at 800 Fatherland Street. This was the residence of the bride's parents, which they rented from the groom's parents. The home was given to the young couple as a wedding gift. They took their honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls, by way of Cincinnati and Pennsylvania.

In English

Unknown provenance.

Catalog;,2015;,Linda Barnickel.

No further accruals are expected.