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Drawing on more than four decades of research, Tennessee Log Buildings examines one of the Volunteer State's most precious--and fast-disappearing--traditions. From the pioneer era through the mid-twentieth century, folk builders in Tennessee used logs to construct cabins, barns, other outbuildings, schools, and churches. In warm, accessible prose that often makes this deeply researched work read like guidebook, John Rehder explores the varied styles...
13) Roads: 1935-1936
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Transportation - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Transportation - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Report consisting of photographs with captions showing rural road improvement projects of the Works Progress Administration throughout eastern and middle Tennessee during the 1930s. Arranged by county, the photographs show work crews, grading and improvement projects, quarries, construction equipment, and road conditions before and after WPA projects.
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Scope and content: Small pocket notebook containing notes relating to the survey of a route from Nashville, Tenn. to Knoxville, Tenn. for the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad, conducted under the direction of E.F. Falconnet. His notes appear to be field notes taken at the time of survey and building of the railroad, which he later reported in a more detailed and fuller form in a formal report. Notes are very brief, but include dates and activities,...
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Scope and content: Materials about Nashville, Tenn. bridges. Includes: "The Design of the Broadway or Sparkman St. Bridge, Nashville, Tenn." by Howard M. Jones, (1909) which contains a number of small engineering drawings; an essay, "The Rise and Fall of Nashville's Suspension Bridge," probably written by Maggie B. Treadway at an unidentified time; a hand-written copy of the text of an inscription on the Hydes Ferry Bridge; and a program from the...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 9th and 13th of February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Avery discusses the first automobile built in Nashville by George Preston Dorris and his subsequent manufacture of the St. Louis Car and the Dorris Car in St. Louis, Mo.; traveling and transportation...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of documents dating ca. 1939-1978 relating to the McKissack & McKissack architectural firm of Nashville, Tenn. Materials include two histories of the organization written prior to 1950; the firm's application for National Defense Construction Projects with the Federal government during World War II, including highlighting its work at the Tuskegee Army Airfield where the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) would...
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Scope and content: The Taylor Roofing Company Records is a small collection of photographs and copy photographs of customer testimonial letters (approximately 44 items total) that provide a brief history of this local business and a snapshot of life in Nashville in the middle 1920s. Photographs of local residences and other buildings are included in the collection. Customer testimonial letters provide further documentation of local community members,...
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