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Abstract: Thirty interviews conducted with Nashville elders, recalling in autobiographical form their major life events and experiences. Most are audio recordings although a few may exist only as full or partial transcripts. Interviews were conducted as part of the statewide initiative known as Homecoming '86, a celebration of local communities and their history. Planning documents for the oral history project are also part of the collection.
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Scope and content: Yearbook; commencement invitations; programs to performances, concerts and recitals addressed to the Meguiar family of Madison, Tenn.; clippings; a copy of the Buford final exam; and a funeral program for Mr. E.G. Buford.
The 1912 yearbook includes a wealth of information about the programs, course of study, and activities of the students and school, describing performances, recitals, and other events. These descriptions include...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of audio interviews with Nashville business and civic leaders and local restaurateurs. The interviews detail projects conducted by business and civic leaders that positively impacted the Nashville community and the stories of Southerners that eat, serve and consume food and drink locally. Some interviews include an index and transcript. Many individual interviews in this collection have been cataloged separately,...
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Scope and content: Newsclippings, manuscripts, biographical sketches, personal chronologies, and genealogical material - most of it undated - relating to the Lindsley family of Nashville, Tenn., and its allied lines including the Lawrence, Berrien, and Condit families. Most of these families are traced back to New England and the Eastern Seaboard in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although a number of the folders indicate materials on one...
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Abstract: Personal papers, news clippings and manuscripts of writings by author and playwright Virginia Armistead Nelson, spanning the years 1906-1923. Many materials are undated.
Scope and content: Personal papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence, particularly relating to her writing for the Nashville Banner newspaper and her submissions of works of fiction, plays, or poems to various magazines, agents, publishers or theatrical companies....
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