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Scope and content: Measured drawings (diazotypes) produced by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1970 of four buildings in Nashville, Tenn. Drawings include brief history of the structure, orientation map, plot map, floor plans, elevation drawings, and architectural details. Structures include: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, attributed to the Wills & Dudley firm of New York; St. Mary's Church designed by William Strickland; Vanderbilt University...
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Scope and content: Includes programs, brochures, reports, self-guided tours, a few building plans, and other documents concerning individual buildings in Nashville, spanning from 1902 to 2010. Some buildings are noted as tourist attractions, and their documentation is primarily in the format of tourist-oriented brochures. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a...
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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....
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"Since the turn of the eighteenth century, social movements and technological advances have strongly impacted cosmopolitan identity in America. Nashville, in particular, has experienced one transformation after another as change continues to propel history forward. Settlement during the 1700s, war and Reconstruction during the 1800s, and increased immigration, New Deal programs, and the invention of the automobile during the 1900s--these and many...
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Scope and content: A mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum circa 1857. Subjects are finely detailed drawings of various buildings in Nashville, Tenn., including a number of structures that were destroyed by fire in 1856-1857. Buildings include churches, banks, schools, public buildings, storefronts, and others. Two maps are of Nashville in 1804 "from...
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Scope and content: Biographical and subject clipping files, collected by Nashville Room staff since ca. 1970. Biographical files cover thousands of Nashvillians and Tennesseans, and subject files cover numerous general topics of local interest, such as buildings, businesses, cemeteries, churches, historic homes, forts, and parks. There are binders of the most heavily used files across from the main desk in the Nashville Room for the following topics:...
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Scope and content: A very small quantity of brochures, booklets, reports, advertising and publicity materials, and other items concerning Nashville and Middle Tennessee architecture and architects or architectural firms.
Items include: "Nashville Art Deco" (1984); Downtown Nashville Art and Architecture - Three Walking Tours (1987); a list of buildings and industrial plants in Davidson County, Tenn. completed by Foster & Creighton since 1885 (compiled...
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