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Scope and content: Brochures, programs, historical sketches, and other materials documenting various forts and pioneer stations in Middle Tennessee. Many items are geared toward tourism, but often contain historical background. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several items. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item.
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Scope and content: A very small quantity of correspondence linked in some manner to Middle Tennessee. Items in this collection provide minimal information about broader topics, yet may still be useful to researchers who are looking for information on particular individuals, places, or very specific subjects. Items in this collection are located here due to the impracticality or impossibility of filing them under more useful, general subject headings....
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Scope and content: A wide variety of material relating to transportation in Nashville, Tenn. Major subject areas concern transportation in general, automobiles, aviation, boats, buses, railroads, and streetcars. The vast majority of materials date from the late twentieth century, and focus on transportation in the greater Nashville area. This includes public and private enterprises, mass transit and personal vehicles, movement of passengers and freight,...
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Scope and content: A collection of primarily 19th-centry documentary sources related to the Harrison House, the plantation home of the William Harrison family, located in Franklin in Williamson County, Tennessee. Present in the collection are four slave deed bills of sale from the 1840s, and a protection order issued to William Harrison, Jr., by the provost marshal's office dated April 25, 1864, when the Federals occupied Nashville during the Civil...
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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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Scope and content: The collection contains material relating to the historical research and book publications of author-historian Sarah Foster Kelley, a seventh-generation descendant of General James Robertson and Charlotte Reeves Robertson. Includes numerous records about Robertson family history and research files on many of the families that were among the earliest settlers of what is now Nashville, Tennessee, such as the Cockrills, Dunns, Mays,...
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Scope and content: The Nashville Community Band Photographs collection includes nine (9) black and white oversized images pertaining to Nashville, Tennessee during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Five photographs show images of carnival or entertainment-oriented bands; two photographs appear to be military-oriented bands; and another two photographs contain images related to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897.
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