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Scope and content: Brochures and similar items providing a brief overview, illustrated with color photographs, of some of the zoo's exhibits, animals, special events, and educational activities. Quantity of materials is usually one to three items. May contain some photocopies.

Scope and content: A small quantity of items about various aspects of Middle Tennessee and Nashville area agriculture, including booklets, brochures, and other items documenting agricultural history, products, and consumption. Materials include: Essay by Thomas T. Potterfield, Jr. entitled "The Marketing of Agricultural Products in Nashville, Tennessee, 1850-1880" (n.d.); a booklet entitled "Expo Agriculture 1884-1984" (1985); a brochure about the...

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.

Scope and content: Brochures, programs, historical sketches, and other materials documenting various forts and pioneer stations in Middle Tennessee. Many items are geared toward tourism, but often contain historical background. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several items. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item.

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...

Scope and content: A wide variety of materials, many of them mass-produced and featuring illustrations, mostly in the nature of brochures, walking tours, driving tours, essays, historical sketches, and tourism materials, about Middle Tennessee counties. Items often emphasize major towns, especially county seats, within particular counties.

Scope and content: Brochures, booklets, and a variety of other material concerning various aspects of the state of Tennessee. Subjects include overviews of various aspects of the state in general, state government, history, state symbols, and tourism. Many items are heavily illustrated, often with color photographs. The vast majority of materials are from the late twentieth or early twenty-first centuries. Quantity of materials on a subject ranges...

Scope and content: Includes a variety of items relating to parks, primarily in Nashville, but also nearby state parks and others. Most of these parks are operated by local or state government, but not all parks fall into such categories. Most items are brochures, usually illustrated, and often with park maps, when appropriate. Brochures often highlight park events, recreational or educational opportunities, facilities, historical significance, flora...

Scope and content: Materials such as booklets and brochures, that concern air, earth, and water resources, conservation, pollution, and other aspects of human efforts to conserve or exploit natural resources and the environment. Subjects also include ways in which human activity directly or indirectly impacts natural surroundings, as well as government efforts to control, regulate, improve, or minimize human impact on the environment. Geographic coverage...

Scope and content: Statistics, annual reports, planning reports, promotional materials and related publications from the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Contents of these reports include statistics on population, economy, business, education, transportation, taxes, cost of living, personal income, and a wide variety of other subjects. Taken as a whole, these documents enable a view of Nashville growth and...