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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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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant William Lewis Barnes, conducted on 19 December 2002 by Ed Hamlett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 30 minute interview, Barnes discusses such topics as experiencing segregation while growing up in Nashville; attending McKendree Methodist Church; attending Vanderbilt University and Yale Divinity...
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Scope and content: One ledger volume spanning 1906 to 1913 containing both daybook (front) and cash book (back) accounts, showing amounts due or received and paid out in the course of Dr. Marvin McFerrin's business as a dentist. Daybook includes index. The daybook portion of the ledger documents the patient, the dental work or service provided (often abbreviated) and any changes in amount owed or paid. Columns are marked debit, credit, and it is believed...
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of the West Nashville Digest community newspaper, starting with volume 1 no. 3 (Nov. 1988) to volume 6 no. 3 (June 1993), with numerous gaps in between. The paper covered the west side of Nashville, Tenn. including the communities of Sylvan Park, West Nashville, Richland Park, and the thoroughfares of Charlotte Pike, White Bridge Road, and the region of Richland Creek. Multiple pages were routinely devoted to local...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on the 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Bransford discusses his family; early life in East Nashville, including Edgewood, the family home; the development of the Belle Meade area; and real estate development in Nashville.
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Scope and content: Statistics, annual reports, planning reports, promotional materials and related publications from the Nashville Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Contents of these reports include statistics on population, economy, business, education, transportation, taxes, cost of living, personal income, and a wide variety of other subjects. Taken as a whole, these documents enable a view of Nashville growth and...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader James Stephen Turner, conducted 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 51 second interview, Turner discusses such topics as his childhood and early education in Kentucky; the importance of community support for families and businesses;...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Wallace Westfeldt, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Milt Capps as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the ca. 2 hour interview, Westfeldt discusses such topics as his family and education; attending Sewanee; segregation; his journalism career, including working for Nashville's Tennessean newspaper covering civil rights;...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Nashville lawyer and judge Alfred Thompson Adams, conducted on the 16 Sept. 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Adams, who served Nashville as Chancellor of Part Two of the Davidson County Chancery Court from 1957-1970, discusses his childhood and education in Nashville; visiting the Beersheba Springs...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant DeLois Jackson Wilkinson, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Kathy G. Bennett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 16 minute interview, Wilkinson discusses such topics as her family, education, and growing up in Helena, Arkansas; Rev. Kelly Miller Smith and First Baptist Capitol Hill; her involvement...
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Scope and content: The Jersey Farms Milk Service Photographs (c. 1920s-early 1930s) is a collection of eight (8) black and white photographs derived from an early sales or promotional booklet. The photo booklet was originally bound and was most likely used to advertise to consumers both the type and quality of products offered by this local company. The photographs demonstrate the various steps, as well as the machinery and equipment used, in dairy...
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of Take One newspaper, published in Nashville, Tenn. Holdings begin with vol. 1 issue 5 (Dec. 1977/Jan. 1978) when it was published on a monthly basis, to vol. 3 no. 13 (Aug. 13, 1979), by which time it had become a weekly.
The range of topics covered in each issue generally include: personality profiles and interviews; coverage of local television and radio stations; short fiction and essays; issues and topics...
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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: This collection documents the many recitals, performances, and musical revues co-produced in Nashville by Sarah Jeter and Louise Smith between 1927 and 1940 in the course of their affiliation with Ward-Belmont, the Studio of Dancing, the School of Dancing of the Nashville Conservatory of Music, and the Dance Center. Also documented is information about their schools, their teaching, and performances by their students, as well as...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 42 second interview, Roberts discusses such topics as his family and education; Nashville during the 1950s when he first came to town to attend law school at Vanderbilt;...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Catherine Berry Pilcher Avery, conducted on the 9th and 13th of February 1981 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Avery discusses the first automobile built in Nashville by George Preston Dorris and his subsequent manufacture of the St. Louis Car and the Dorris Car in St. Louis, Mo.; traveling and transportation...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted 25 Aug. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 46 minute interview, Andrews discusses such topics as Nashville during the 1940s when he first came to town as a child; leadership; attending Vanderbilt; the advantages...
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Scope and content: Materials created or compiled by Kate Pickett Campbell with most items dating from 1883-1890 and 1920-1939. Collection includes two autograph books belonging to Kate Pickett before her marriage, with inscriptions from 1883-1890, and a few scattered entries from later dates through 1932. Most individuals signing the books indicate they are from Nashville, Tenn. or Bingham, Tenn. Both books are decorated with small chromolithograph...
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Scope and content: The Taylor Roofing Company Records is a small collection of photographs and copy photographs of customer testimonial letters (approximately 44 items total) that provide a brief history of this local business and a snapshot of life in Nashville in the middle 1920s. Photographs of local residences and other buildings are included in the collection. Customer testimonial letters provide further documentation of local community members,...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Adolpho A. Birch, Jr., conducted on 22 June 2005 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the ca. 1 hour interview, Birch discusses such topics as his family; his education in Washington, D.C.; growing up in segregated Washington, D.C.; his service in the Navy; coming to Nashville to practice law in...
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