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Scope and content: Wendell J. Gore shares memories of growing up in East Nashville; downtown Nashville businesses; and carrying a paper route when he was in high school.
Interview recorded in the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library from September 2007 to September 2008. Each interview is approximately 40 minutes long and conducted with the help of a trained facilitator. Most interviews...
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Scope and content: Slightly over one month after the East Nashville tornado of March 14, 1933, Robert M. Williamson of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Nashville, Tenn. presented this paper before the Tennessee Academy of Science meeting on April 28, 1933. Subsequently, it was published in the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science in July 1933.
Materials consist of the published issue of the journal; a typescript of Williamson's speech; photographs...
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Scope and content: Records of the Bailey School Parent-Teacher Association of Nashville, Tenn., 1930-1972 contain a wide variety of information about the activities of the organization, as well as various school and community issues.
Foremost among these records is a history record book, consisting of annual entries documenting activities of the Bailey School PTA throughout the academic year, from 1930 to 1970. Records are most verbose for the period...
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Scope and content: Includes a wide variety of material relating to various fairs, festivals and events held in Nashville, Tennessee, spanning the time period from 1883 to 2015, with very few items dating prior to 1971. Materials include programs, posters, schedules, advertisements, invitations, brochures, postcards and similar items. Types of events include annual festivals relating to particular ethnic or nationality groups; food; and some music...
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Scope and content: The Franklyn McCord Papers span the time frame of 1862-1984, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1940-1979. Most items relate to Frank McCord's interest in Confederate, Civil War, and Tennessee history, and include some materials relating to or written by his second wife, Margaret, who shared his interests. Materials consist of essays, photographs, and a variety of other materials such as correspondence, scrapbooks of news...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted 3 Nov. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Jones discusses such topics as growing up in East Nashville during the Great Depression; how he became a journalist and started working for the Nashville...
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Scope and content: A group of four different titles of Nashville community newspapers published by Norma Condra in the 1980s. These newspapers were distributed weekly for free, and had their origin as a shopper type of publication which primarily published advertisements, consisting of display ads for businesses, as well as classified ads from individuals who were selling cars, real estate, pets, offering services, and other types of advertising....
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Abstract: These materials center on aviatrix Cornelia Clark Fort, the first female pilot to die on active military duty, during World War II. The collection chronicles Cornelia's career and death through correspondence, official documents, photographs, and a few artifacts, as well as oral interviews and other research collected by Doris Brinker Tanner and Rob Simbeck. The collection touches briefly on the extended Fort family and includes four letters...
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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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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Three audio recordings created in 1986 by Historic Nashville, Inc. in which the speakers describe and discuss homes, schools, churches, and various historical minutiae in the following neighborhoods: Lockeland Springs (William Henry Oliver); Belmont-Hillsboro (Eugene TeSelle) and Edgefield. Particularly of note are the subjects of segregation and desegregation in schooling and housing, discussed at length in both the Oliver and...
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Scope and content: Silent, black and white film showing various scenes in Nashville, Tenn. around 1930. Quality is fair, though fine detail is blurry. Images include: the Parthenon and Centennial Park; views from War Memorial Plaza, including nearby buildings and the capitol; car races at the State Fairgrounds, showing crowds in the stands, a large building nearby, and races in progress; Sky Harbor airport near Murfreesboro, Tenn. including airplanes...
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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: 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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Scope and content: Brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, reports, lists, booklets, and a variety of other material concerning various Tennessee communities. Emphasis is upon Nashville and Davidson County, with a large quantity of material relating to or produced by the city, county, or metropolitan governments. Chronological lists of government officials for various offices are a particularly helpful resource.
Subjects in the collection include overviews...
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Arts and Entertainment - 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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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
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Abstract: Maps of Nashville; Davidson County; the state of Tennessee; Tennessee cities and counties; Civil War battles, especially those in Tennessee; and a variety of other maps including geologic maps, water resources, and recreation, mostly as they relate to Tennessee. Other states, particularly Southern states and states bordering Tennessee, are also included, with emphasis upon the era of Tennessee settlement, from the 1770s to the mid-1800s....
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