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Scope and content: A variety of items, mostly relating to shopping malls located in Nashville or surrounding communities. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Items are often mall brochures, showing the general floor plan and location and types of stores within the mall. Particularly significant are mall brochures from 2009 for Opry Mills Mall, which was inundated by the 2010 flood; and a 1958 booklet promoting...

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: One volume ledger of expenses spanning 1929 to 1934 for the firm Beasley & Sons. The ledger provides a daily listing of expenses by category, arranged and totaled by month. Some of the categories include: freight and drayage; labor; taxes; insurance and rent; office supplies; payments to officers in the firm; and a wide variety of other expenses, comprised of approximately 30 categories in total. Yearly totals are consolidated at...

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...

Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader James Stephen Turner, conducted 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 51 second interview, Turner discusses such topics as his childhood and early education in Kentucky; the importance of community support for families and businesses;...

Scope and content: A wide variety of materials relating to the Nashville arts scene, including items about art events, individual artists, galleries, museums, exhibitions, contests, public art projects, and related subjects, including special events and venues such as Fifth Avenue of the Arts; First Saturday Art Crawl; Arts at the Airport; and similar venues or events, many of them located in downtown Nashville. Many items include artist biographies...

Scope and content: A collection of seven scrapbooks of business-related newspaper clippings compiled by Mary S. Buckner (Mrs. Henry K. Buckner, Sr.), spanning ca. 1953-ca. 1984. The scrapbooks are comprised chiefly of Nashville-related business articles published in "The Banner," and "The Tennessean" newspapers. The business writings cover topics about property purchases for commercial development, banks and various bank mergers, the NLT Corporation,...