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Scope and content: Measured drawings (diazotypes) produced by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1970 of four buildings in Nashville, Tenn. Drawings include brief history of the structure, orientation map, plot map, floor plans, elevation drawings, and architectural details. Structures include: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, attributed to the Wills & Dudley firm of New York; St. Mary's Church designed by William Strickland; Vanderbilt University...
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Abstract: Records and scrapbooks 1970-1996 (bulk 1974-1985) documenting the activities of historical preservation and advocacy organization, Historic Nashville, Inc. Items include many press releases for the period 1976-1985; four scrapbooks covering from 1970 to 1980; and a small quantity of other materials.
Scope and content: Press releases showcase a wide variety of Historic Nashville Inc.'s activities from 1976 to 1985, including their successful...
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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: Scrapbook (unbound and housed in two folders) of clippings and ephemera named for the "Then and Now" articles published in the "Nashville Tennessean Magazine," in 1949 and 1950, featuring a photographic history of Nashville scenes of the 1880s in comparison to the "now" of 1949 and 1950. The older photographs originated from the studios of Otto B. Giers and C. C. Giers, commercial photographers who lived and worked in Nashville....
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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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Scope and content: Reminiscences of artist Meyer Wolfe as dictated to his nephew, Dr. Lawrence Wolfe. A three-page biographical sketch of Wolfe is followed by Wolfe's fifty-page reminiscences of Nashville during the first part of the 20th century. The reminiscences are divided into chapters which correspond primarily to different geographic areas of Nashville: Capitol Avenue; Public Square; College Street; Union Street; Cherry Street or Fourth...
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 with individuals associated with buildings and businesses located on Nashville's Second Avenue North, known in the nineteenth century as Market Street.
Mrs. Frances Eakes - One page of notes, only; no audio. Lived in the Silver Dollar Saloon in 1925-1926 when her father, Willis W. Agee ran a drugstore on the premises. Eakes recalls the flood of 1926-1927 and "shanties" where...
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Scope and content: A collection of newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postcards related to Nashville history, ca. 1890-ca. 1940. Includes more than 600 pages, comprised chiefly of illustrated published articles, several written by Mary French Caldwell. A few pages have handwritten notes about the Weakley family.
The documentary scrapbooks cover multiple topics, such as published aerial photographs of Nashville's...
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Scope and content: Collection contains 6,302 slides taken by architect Charles W. Warterfield, Jr. over the course of his adult life, and span the period from about 1957 to 1998. The primary focus of this collection is various styles of architecture in Tennessee, especially in Nashville. These include: pioneer log cabins and houses, vernacular architecture, Greek Revival mansions, Victorian residences and commercial buildings. Warterfield documented...
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Arts and Entertainment - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - 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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