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A dynamic, experiential, and intimate portrait that explores the many sides of the legendary Southern city and country music capital, from award-winning writers Ann Patchett, Jon Meacham, and acclaimed photographer Heidi Ross. Nashville is a creative collaboration that awakens the senses, providing a virtual immersion in this unique American city hailed as the Athens of the South. Patchett, Ross, and Meacham in his introduction, at once capture both...
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From Nashville's earliest days as a pioneer town in Middle Tennessee, the black population has provided a valuable contribution to Nashville's growth and development as a premier Southern city. Possessing a heritage rooted in slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights-era reforms, the black community has persevered through their determination, spiritual strength, and the unique leadership fostered by the visionary city they call home....
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"Photographer Sonya Jasinski and Emmy-nominated singer/songwriter and photographer Kate York have been participating in and documenting the contemporary Nashville scene for more than a decade, capturing intimate behind-the-scenes moments of the city's most celebrated musicians, songwriters, producers, and performing artists. From candid photographs taken in the homes of Kacey Musgraves and Emmylou Harris and backstage moments with Luncinda Williams...
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Scope and content: Twenty-two prints of pen-and-ink drawings of historical buildings, residences, the Nashville skyline, and military subjects. Most of the historic buildings are of structures in Nashville, Tenn., although a few prints are of buildings from Franklin, Tenn. The majority of the prints show structures in their historical context, rather than being renderings of their modern surroundings. Prints are a variety of sizes, the smallest being...
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Scope and content: Fifteen prints of pen-and-ink drawings of various historical buildings in Nashville, Tenn. and Sumner County, Tenn. ranging in size from 11 x 14 in. to 17 x 22 in.
Nashville subjects include the original Carnegie Library (2 prints); Howard School (2 copies); Howes Wilson Hall at Nashville General Hospital (2 copies); First Baptist Church; Holy Trinity Episcopal Church; and Belmont Mansion. Two blocks of buildings on Nashville's...
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Scope and content: A mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum circa 1857. Subjects are finely detailed drawings of various buildings in Nashville, Tenn., including a number of structures that were destroyed by fire in 1856-1857. Buildings include churches, banks, schools, public buildings, storefronts, and others. Two maps are of Nashville in 1804 "from...
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