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An account of a bygone world of privilege, money, power, and self-indulgence set in monumental mansions and country estates.
Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet less than fifty years after his death, no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children...
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A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks is written as a historical reference on Black community banks, and serves as a guide to help all Americans think differently about our relationships with banks. This particular history references banks in Richmond, Va.; Boley, Okla.; Chicago, Ill.; Memphis, Tenn; and Detroit, Mich.; as entities that provided a valuable service to their communities.
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Scope and content: A variety of materials relating to Nashville and Tennessee celebrations of the American Revolution Bicentennial, compiled and collected by staff of the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library. Materials span from ca. 1973 to 1977. Nashville newspaper clippings comprise approximately one half of the collection. A small quantity of material consists of items related to specific activities and initiatives undertaken...
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Abstract: Printouts from portions of the Occupy Nashville website (www.occupynashville.org) selected and printed by Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division staff in the spring of 2012. Materials date from Oct. 2011 through March 2012.
Scope and content: Approximately half of the collection consists of minutes from meetings of Occupy Nashville's own "General Assembly," beginning on Oct. 9, 2011 and continuing through Feb. 2012 (the...
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Abstract: Photographs, news clippings, letters, and a scrapbook documenting the personal, professional, and social lives of Elizabeth and Bill Weaver of Nashville, Tennessee. The dates of the materials are 1858-1996 with the bulk being from 1940-1975.
Scope and content: Series I. Family (1858-1970, 1996) - contains photos, clippings and letters concerning the Weaver family and the Craig family of Nashville, Tennessee. This series comprises approximately...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of audio interviews with Nashville business and civic leaders and local restaurateurs. The interviews detail projects conducted by business and civic leaders that positively impacted the Nashville community and the stories of Southerners that eat, serve and consume food and drink locally. Some interviews include an index and transcript. Many individual interviews in this collection have been cataloged separately,...
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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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