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Scope and content: Small scrapbook containing news clippings (some with illustrations), calling cards, snapshots, poetry clippings, and color illustrations of fruit, flowers, or trees. The bulk of the materials, including most of the news clippings, concern the Allen family of Davidson County, Tenn. or their near relatives. An inscription on the inside front cover reads: "This book is for James A. Allen from his aunt Martha Allen Sept. 12, 1910."...
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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Abstract: Records of the Sacred Sites Survey Project of Historic Nashville, Inc., conducted between 1999 and 2003, encompassing a survey of houses of worship in Davidson County, Tenn. over fifty years old as of 2000.
Scope and content: The bulk of the collection is comprised of the church survey forms and photographs of the churches. The collection also includes administrative papers which provide information about the creation and implementation...
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Scope and content: Seven audio-recorded interviews with lifelong Nashville residents, most of whom were born in the early twentieth century. Focus is upon East Nashville, formerly known as Edgefield, but also includes downtown Nashville and other nearby locales.
Angie (Cantrell) Merritt Donelson (later Ezell) tells about her family history, and the business operations of her first husband, Gilbert Merritt, who owned Southern Woodenware, located in...
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Abstract: Thirty interviews conducted with Nashville elders, recalling in autobiographical form their major life events and experiences. Most are audio recordings although a few may exist only as full or partial transcripts. Interviews were conducted as part of the statewide initiative known as Homecoming '86, a celebration of local communities and their history. Planning documents for the oral history project are also part of the collection.
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