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Scope and content: Variety of materials relating to roads, streets, highways, turnpikes, and early trails in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area. Most folders contain only one or two items.
Subjects include: an undated essay entitled "Early Trailways of Nashville," by Mrs. R.H. Jones; a brochure about development of Lower Broadway (ca. 1984); a brochure produced by Citizens for Better Neighborhoods in opposition to the construction of I-440...
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Abstract: Records and scrapbooks 1970-1996 (bulk 1974-1985) documenting the activities of historical preservation and advocacy organization, Historic Nashville, Inc. Items include many press releases for the period 1976-1985; four scrapbooks covering from 1970 to 1980; and a small quantity of other materials.
Scope and content: Press releases showcase a wide variety of Historic Nashville Inc.'s activities from 1976 to 1985, including their successful...
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Abstract: The collection includes city directory and deed research, and photographs, comprising historical and architectural inventories of extant (c.1980) downtown Nashville buildings. A few photographs of structures in the Rutledge Hill area are also included in a separate series.
Scope and content: Series I. Downtown Survey. Documents and photographs composing a detailed architectural and historical survey of downtown Nashville buildings, c.1980....
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Scope and content: A collection of newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postcards related to Nashville history, ca. 1890-ca. 1940. Includes more than 600 pages, comprised chiefly of illustrated published articles, several written by Mary French Caldwell. A few pages have handwritten notes about the Weakley family.
The documentary scrapbooks cover multiple topics, such as published aerial photographs of Nashville's...
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Abstract: [from opening title] "This Film Has Been Produced By The Nashville Electric Service In Order To Bring To Its Many Employees The Opportunity Of Seeing The Different Operations And Factors That Make Up A CITY of ELECTRICITY."
Scope and content: Black and white silent film footage showing various Nashville Electric Service (NES) departments and workers from circa 1946. The film demonstrates the disparate operations and various services of...
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 with individuals associated with buildings and businesses located on Nashville's Second Avenue North, known in the nineteenth century as Market Street.
Mrs. Frances Eakes - One page of notes, only; no audio. Lived in the Silver Dollar Saloon in 1925-1926 when her father, Willis W. Agee ran a drugstore on the premises. Eakes recalls the flood of 1926-1927 and "shanties" where...
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Scope and content: Seven small photograph albums, and numerous loose pages from one or two additional albums, containing a total of approximately 600 black and white snapshots showing the James E. and Mary (Williamson) Wilson family of Nashville, Tenn., their children, and grandchildren. Most of the photographs are from the 1897-1919 time period, but some photographs can be dated to 1939. Only one image is formally identified, although research by...
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Scope and content: Collection contains 6,302 slides taken by architect Charles W. Warterfield, Jr. over the course of his adult life, and span the period from about 1957 to 1998. The primary focus of this collection is various styles of architecture in Tennessee, especially in Nashville. These include: pioneer log cabins and houses, vernacular architecture, Greek Revival mansions, Victorian residences and commercial buildings. Warterfield documented...
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Arts and Entertainment - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: The 1910-1935 Oral History Project is comprised of 29 extant audio recordings conducted from 1980 to 1982 by two staff members of Historic Nashville, Inc. Focus of the interviews is upon lived experiences during the early decades of the twentieth century, particularly from the perspective of upper class and upper middle class, white, well-educated individuals.
General topics include: childhood, courtship and marriage, social life,...
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Scope and content: Annual reports from the Nashville Housing Authority (NHA) and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) from 1938 to 1996 (some years missing) and two project-specific reports on Capitol Hill Redevelopment Project (c. 1952) and Edgehill Redevelopment and Renewal Project (c. 1964). The collection documents the activities and mission of the Nashville Housing Authority and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency...
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