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Workroom range 4 section 6
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Scope and content: A collection of documentary sources pertaining to the history of two theatre groups of Nashville: 1) The Community Playhouse, and 2) Theatre Nashville. The Community Playhouse documentation consists of minutes of the board of directors, spanning ca. 1950-ca. 1957. The documentary sources about Theatre Nashville include eight scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, theatrical programs, photographs, and ephemera, spanning the dates...
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West storage range 3 section 3
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West storage range 3 section 3
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Scope and content: Administrative and other materials document the three-year history of Nashville Gospel Arts Day (1987-1989). Materials include planning notes, proclamations, publicity releases, grant funding requests, correspondence, performance contracts, local press coverage clippings, expense receipts, souvenir booklets, invitation lists, guest lists, and descriptive reports.
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Workroom range 3 section 5
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Workroom range 3 section 5
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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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Workroom range 5 section 3
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Workroom range 5 section 3
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Scope and content: A collection of scrapbooks pertaining to the history of the Nashville Public Library. These scrapbooks span the 1920s through early 1970s, providing biographical and historical information about the library's administrative officials, the four original Carnegie Libraries (Main and branches), the library services and public programs. Includes a scrapbook about the Business Branch of the Carnegie Library, established in the Nashville...
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United Charities (Nashville, Tenn.)
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United Charities (Nashville, Tenn.)
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West storage range 1 section 1
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West storage range 1 section 1
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Scope and content: A collection of official records of the Nashville Relief Society, the United Charities, the Addison Avenue Settlement Workers, Camp Thomas Social Workers, and the Fannie Battle Day Home. The sources pertain to the charitable work of the social workers as well as social conditions in the Nashville area spanning the late 1880s to the 1940s. Present are minutes of board meetings, lists of charitable donations, and treasurers reports....
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Scope and content: A variety of calendars, from 1923 to 2000, serving primarily as compilations of historical data and timelines, marking anniversaries of particular events; or as a compiled listing of various charitable and social events occurring in Nashville during a particular year. A few other calendars were produced for the purposes of advertising businesses, raising money for charity, or other activities. Several of the calendars also include...
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Scope and content: Active collection consisting of some 4,500 photographs with emphasis upon Nashville people, places, buildings, and landmarks. Photos of Tennessee people and places apart from Nashville and of historical interest are also included. The collection contains some illustrated articles (newsclippings) and a pictorial booklet entitled "Beautiful selected colored views of Lookout Mountain: Chattanooga, Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge."...
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Map room
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Abstract: Maps of Nashville; Davidson County; the state of Tennessee; Tennessee cities and counties; Civil War battles, especially those in Tennessee; and a variety of other maps including geologic maps, water resources, and recreation, mostly as they relate to Tennessee. Other states, particularly Southern states and states bordering Tennessee, are also included, with emphasis upon the era of Tennessee settlement, from the 1770s to the mid-1800s....
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, spanning 1910 to 1998 but mostly from 1941 to 1974, documenting various subjects about 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.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference...
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Workroom range 5 section 4
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Workroom range 5 section 4
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Scope and content: A small collection of baseball scorecards from Nashville Vols games from 1936-1940. Scorecards contain lineups with player names and positions, and have been completed to record the action of each game by fan Mel Dodson. Opponents include teams from around the Southeast, including Chattanooga, Memphis, and Little Rock. All scorecards are from Vols home games, except for one away game held in Memphis. One scorecard from May 19,...
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Workroom range 2 section 4
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Workroom range 2 section 4
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Scope and content: This weekly free community newspaper typically contained a profile article of a local individual - some famous, some not so famous. Many people profiled included musicians, restauranteurs, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, business people, politicians, and other local leaders and personalities. Regular columns provided theatre, movie, and restaurant reviews; lists of happenings and events; local philanthropic and business activities;...
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Workroom range 2 section 4
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Workroom range 2 section 4
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Scope and content: A group of four different titles of Nashville community newspapers published by Norma Condra in the 1980s. These newspapers were distributed weekly for free, and had their origin as a shopper type of publication which primarily published advertisements, consisting of display ads for businesses, as well as classified ads from individuals who were selling cars, real estate, pets, offering services, and other types of advertising....
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Workroom range 3 section 1
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Workroom range 3 section 1
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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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Workroom range 3 section 4
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Workroom range 3 section 4
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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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Workroom range 3 section 6
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Workroom range 3 section 6
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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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Workroom range 2 section 5
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Workroom range 2 section 5
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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: Architectural drawings created in the 1920s and early 1930s by Russell Eason Hart and others for the reconstruction of Nashville's Parthenon replica in Centennial Park. Drawings are for all aspects of the reconstruction, including interiors, exteriors, plans, elevations, sections, details, ornament, schematics, structural and foundation plans, and electrical and ventilation systems. Drawings include some very detailed images of...
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SCC oral histories
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SCC oral histories
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Workroom range 3 section 8: document
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Scope and content: Six audio recordings of interviews with ten individuals relating to their recollections about Nashville people and places. A few recordings are of poor quality or have tape or microphone noise. Contents include:
One series of short interviews with five individuals concerning the Hermitage Hotel, recorded in 1977, probably just before the building was shuttered by codes enforcement, due to its deteriorating condition. Most individuals...
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Workroom range 5 section 7
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Workroom range 5 section 7
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Scope and content: Photographs, maps and documents, collected and created by Phil Clinard in the mid-1980s concerning the Civil War battles of Nashville and Franklin and documenting Clinard's involvement in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Originally housed in two scrapbooks, the first scrapbook contained materials relating to Civil War battles and historic sites, including numerous photographs. Many of the photographs concentrating on the battle...
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Workroom range 5 section 6
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Scope and content: Eighteen invitations, predominantly to weddings. Other invitations include: Phi Delta Theta public literary exercises at their national convention in Washington, D.C. in 1884, featuring music by Pellettieri's Band; Nashville Literary Club; Columbia College (N.Y.) Law School Commencement, 1882; and two invitations to art exhibitions by students of Miss Sallie Thomas' art class, 1882, 1883.
Wedding invitations include: Eunice Ward...