Frances Lusky oral history interview, 21 July 1976.
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Digital identifier: HNITCPLusky.

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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Frances Lusky, conducted on 21 July 1976 by Leonard Wood as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 22 minute interview, Lusky discusses her family and experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including watching sculptors Belle Kinney and Leopold Scholz work on the Parthenon.

Index available (based upon original analog audiocassette recording), filed separately. Brief excerpts are available through the Digitial Collections portal of the Nashville Public Library website.

Cite as: Frances Lusky, Historic Nashville Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). Copyright status is undetermined.

Unless otherwise restricted, interviewees donated to HNI "for such scholarly and educational purposes as Historic Nashville Inc. shall determine, the use of my taped interview," and consented that "portions of the taped interview may be used in publication."

Historic Nashville, Inc.;,Gift;,circa 1976.,Acc. RT-384.

Other materials created by Historic Nashville, Inc. are also in the holdings of the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library.

Nashville artist and civic leader Frances Lusky was born on 15 Dec. 1890 to Joseph and Carrie Barker Blum, both of whom were originally from New York. She was educated at Hume School, Fogg High School, Peabody College, and the University of Tennessee. In 1915, she married Maurice I. Lusky (1889-1983), who operated the M.I. Lusky Jewelry Company and served as president of the Francis and Lusky Company, a specialty advertising and printing firm. Lusky was a board member of the Nashville Council PTA and organized the first PTA at Hume-Fogg High School. She served as chairman of the first Jewish Welfare Campaign Women's Division and was a life member of the board of the Nashville Chapter of the American Red Cross; a member emeritus of the board of trustees of The Temple; a member of The Temple Sisterhood; and a member and corresponding secretary of the Nashville Section of the Council of Jewish women. She died in August 1980, and her body was donated to the Vanderbilt School of Medicine for research.

In English.

Forms part of Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project.