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Scope and content: In a single large 165-page volume (11" x 16"x 1.75"), the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. recorded all accidents (most very minor injuries to employees) which took place from January, 1954 through May, 1958. Ledger book entries tell the who, when, and where of these injuries, plus additional remarks from the company's standpoint. All entries are handwritten on pages 1-62; the remainder of the volume is blank.
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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with former Nashville teacher George Boyles, conducted 17 May 1987-22 Nov. 1989 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses Nashville during the first half of the 20th century, including such topics as streetcar lines; city limits; 1918 train wrecks; an airplane accident in West Nashville; airfields; the last horse drawn fire engine; schools; the Tennessee State Fairgrounds; neighborhoods; the 1916...
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Scope and content: Materials concerning various disasters, including severe weather events and man-made hazards. Presently, contents include: four essays written by Samuel A. Weakley in 1942 concerning the New Madrid earthquake of 1811-1812; and a brochure and bookmark from 2011 concerning the Dutchman's Curve train wreck of 1918.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 95 minute interview, Havron discusses such topics as his childhood and education growing up in Nashville; his family; his early aspiration to become the director of marketing for the...
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Abstract: Photographs, slides (including briefings on health-related topics), audio letters home, and an oral history interview, documenting the Air Force careers of Kathy (Creager) Cash and her husband, Grady, from 1967 to 1995. Kathy was a nurse and later was instrumental in the health promotion field, and the majority of the materials in the collection document her work in these areas.
Scope and content: Snapshot photographs, mostly in color,...
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Abstract: These materials center on aviatrix Cornelia Clark Fort, the first female pilot to die on active military duty, during World War II. The collection chronicles Cornelia's career and death through correspondence, official documents, photographs, and a few artifacts, as well as oral interviews and other research collected by Doris Brinker Tanner and Rob Simbeck. The collection touches briefly on the extended Fort family and includes four letters...
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Abstract: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews.
Scope and content: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews, most dating from...
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