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Scope and content: Sisters Marion Jenkins, Sharon Parrish, and Brenda Wynn share memories of their mother, Rosa Lee Parrish.
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 are conducted by family members and friends...
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Scope and content: Shirley Marie Johnson shares memories of her abusive childhood; growing up in foster care; her foster parents; her education; her abusive marriage; her radio career; and starting a non-profit organization, Exodus, Inc.
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...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials 1958-1991 created by Nashvillian Dr. Irene S.P. Francis including: biographical sketches of Dr. Francis, Adolpho Birch, Mary Carlotta Hughes, and Lillie Mae Howard; a 1958 constitution of the Haynes Heights Community Civic Organization and one letter to the Council of Community Agencies in 1965 with recommendations for a community center; various opinion pieces and letters written 1971-1991 by Francis...
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Scope and content: The Optimistic Study Club Records consist of yearbooks, programs, agendas, announcements, and member profiles, including written recollections, obituaries, and news articles. About half of the collection is yearbooks (1992-2019), which typically include a brief history of the organization (written for the fiftieth anniversary of the club and reprinted); theme for the year and scheduled meetings, with topics to be discussed; by-laws;...
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Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
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Education - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: The Flora Keen papers are comprised of mementos from her time as a student at Belmont College circa 1903. The collection features a school annual from 1904, a 1903 Belmont College brochure, scant correspondence written on Belmont college letterhead and Belmont College postcards dating from 1906-1974. Also included are coursework samples from 1902 and 1903 featuring a spelling test and five brief essays about British history as well...
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, spanning 1878 to 1999 but mostly from 1935 to 1987, documenting people and subjects relating primarily to Nashville, Tenn., and used by Nashville Banner newspaper reporters for reference during their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection. See further details about each series in...
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Scope and content: A collection of two scrapbook documenting the Nashville Junior Riding Club, spanning the dates ca. 1958-ca. 1967. Includes newspaper clippings, annual horse show programs, photographs, and ephemera. Topical coverage includes, but is not limited to, officers and membership, community service, annual horse shows, honorees, holiday parties, and horsemanship. Includes several articles by Margaret Lindsley Warden, the author of the "Horse...
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Scope and content: Genealogical and biographical information about sisters Elise and Margaret Croft, residents of the historic house, Grassmere located off of Nolensville Road south of Nashville, Tenn., where they lived for most of the twentieth century. Their family had lived on the property since the early 1800s. The collections includes genealogical information on the Shute, Dunn, Hamilton and other allied lines, including some of the earliest...
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Scope and content: Scrapbook #1: Inscribed: "from Mattie to Ma, Dec. 25, 1882," contents in this scrapbook date from 1881 to 1902. Most of the materials in this scrapbook consist of calling cards. About half are formally printed cards, purchased from local printers; about half are handwritten, which are probably the signatures of the individuals named. Interspersed throughout are frequent wedding invitations, many to ceremonies held outside of Tennessee....
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Scope and content: Marian Ledford's scrapbook album (ca. 1936-ca. 1956) contains several published biographical clippings about several of the Nashville military soldiers in World War II and "Nashvillians at Camp Forrest." Several of the clippings pertain to soldiers reported missing-in-action or killed during combat. Miss Ledford's scrapbook contains articles about the special social events hosted by the YMCA-USO during WWII, an organization in which...
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Scope and content: Eight VHS videotapes about the life and legacy of Nashville, Tenn. educator, Julia Green, conducted in 1999 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the elementary school named in her honor. Videotapes consist of interviews with local historian, Carol Kaplan; Green's niece, Florence Weiland; and Harriet and John Malone. Green was the Malone's paternal great aunt. Tape #1, entitled "Julia Green: More than a Name," appears to...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials created or collected by Lemuel R. Campbell and his wife, Johnnie, documenting expenses and operations of their dairy farm; property and development in Nashville, Tenn. by Murphy Land Company, including a map; an almanac; several issues of a literary and current events journal published in Nashville, entitled "The Round Table"; and a compilation of recipes and household hints in the form of a scrapbook.
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Scope and content: The collection documents Underwood's life through photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, certificates, and a notebook compiled at her retirement. Her activity in various women's rights advocacy capacities is documented by publications from the Secretary's Advisory Committee on the Rights and Responsibilities of Women and the Tennessee Commission on the Status of Women. Underwood's work with both the Tennessee/Nashville...
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Scope and content: Spanning the years 1912 to 1975, this collection contains yearbooks, minutes, obituaries, clippings, photographs, papers, correspondence, and miscellanea from the Nashville, Tenn., women's music club, Vendredi Musicale. The collection also includes five items from two other clubs, the Women's Musicale and the Musical Alumnae Club. Lela Hamilton (1916-1999), former club officer and member of the clubs, collected the materials.
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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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Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
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Military - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Military - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Biographies, military records, obituaries, clippings, photographs, educational records, and other papers dating from 1899 to 1946, documenting the lives of S. George Cochron, a Nashville watchmaker, and his niece, Rebecca Evalyn Cochran Simmelink. (George and Rebecca spelled their last names differently.)
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Scope and content: Series I. Autobiography of Norvelle Dismukes, written in 1982, provides a detailed account of her life, her family, her education, and her career. Generally written in chronological order, she has a novelist's eye for detail, and provides rich emotional and physical descriptions about the people in her life and her surroundings. She writes about her family origins in Wilcox County, Alabama; her adoption by relatives in Nashville,...
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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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