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Scope and content: The collection consists of two scrapbooks and a few additional unbound pages of newspaper clippings compiled by Edwin A. Price, who served as Nashville's City Attorney (circa late 1890s-circa 1902) and later as the Attorney General for Davidson County (circa 1902-circa 1906). The bound volumes, spanning January 6, 1899, through October 6, 1899, include numerous articles about the legal battles between railroads and streetcar companies...
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, from 1940 to 1987, documenting Davidson County subjects and used by Nashville Banner 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 Files, Davidson County Series has information about topics,...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of material relating to transportation in Nashville, Tenn. Major subject areas concern transportation in general, automobiles, aviation, boats, buses, railroads, and streetcars. The vast majority of materials date from the late twentieth century, and focus on transportation in the greater Nashville area. This includes public and private enterprises, mass transit and personal vehicles, movement of passengers and freight,...
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Scope and content: A collection of newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postcards related to Nashville history, ca. 1890-ca. 1940. Includes more than 600 pages, comprised chiefly of illustrated published articles, several written by Mary French Caldwell. A few pages have handwritten notes about the Weakley family.
The documentary scrapbooks cover multiple topics, such as published aerial photographs of Nashville's...
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Scope and content: Brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, reports, lists, booklets, and a variety of other material concerning various Tennessee communities. Emphasis is upon Nashville and Davidson County, with a large quantity of material relating to or produced by the city, county, or metropolitan governments. Chronological lists of government officials for various offices are a particularly helpful resource.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted 3 Nov. 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 interview, Jones discusses such topics as growing up in East Nashville during the Great Depression; how he became a journalist and started working for the Nashville...
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Scope and content: Fifteen interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 and 1978 with individuals who were owners, or were the family of former owners of historic homes in Nashville, most of which had been in the same family for several generations. Several of the homes were constructed prior to 1800 during the early settlement period of Middle Tennessee. A few are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to their...
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Scope and content: Twenty issues of Old Hickory News (Aug. 3 through Dec. 14, 1918), the company newsletter for the Old Hickory Powder Plant. Newsletters document the construction and operation of the plant and activities of employees from August 3, 1918 to December 14, 1918 and contain a wide variety of information. Regular columns profiled company employees, especially those in management positions; operations of the various departments at the...
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Scope and content: A book of depositions and transcript of proceedings in the case of Mary and William McNeill v. Morgan W. Brown in 1847, heard in the Sixth Circuit Court in Davidson County, Tenn. The case involves the guardianship of orphans Mary and William McNeill, ages 13 and 10. Their father, William McNeill, left a will granting the guardianship to his neighbor, Morgan W. Brown. The estate totalled $120,000 in 1847. Samuel Crockett, the children's...
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Abstract: Series I: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and related materials written and compiled by James D. Andrews which document his efforts and advocacy for a new airport in Nashville, Tenn. in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Contains information about Blackwood Field, McConnell Field, Sky Harbor airport near Murfreesboro, and Nashville Municipal Airport, also known as Berry Field, as well as a variety of other aviation-related topics.
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Abstract: Records of the Sacred Sites Survey Project of Historic Nashville, Inc., conducted between 1999 and 2003, encompassing a survey of houses of worship in Davidson County, Tenn. over fifty years old as of 2000.
Scope and content: The bulk of the collection is comprised of the church survey forms and photographs of the churches. The collection also includes administrative papers which provide information about the creation and implementation...
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Scope and content: Newsclippings, spanning dates from 1918-1941, sometimes including entire pages or nearly complete issues, from the Nashville Banner and Tennesseean newspapers. Early papers sometimes feature photogravure sections. A few clippings relate to members of the Andrews family, especially the three sons of James and Lula Andrews, and a few articles document James D. Andrews's interest in local aviation matters.
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Scope and content: A collection of six scrapbooks and one diary presumably compiled by Meriwether Liston Lewis, a Nashville Carnegie Library reference librarian and a published author, spanning the dates ca. 1901-ca. 1954. The materials document Nashville theatre, primarily about theatrical productions at the Vendome Theatre and the Grand Opera House, ca. 1901, United States history, international and national politics, the Paris Peace Conference...
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Scope and content: Collection contains 6,302 slides taken by architect Charles W. Warterfield, Jr. over the course of his adult life, and span the period from about 1957 to 1998. The primary focus of this collection is various styles of architecture in Tennessee, especially in Nashville. These include: pioneer log cabins and houses, vernacular architecture, Greek Revival mansions, Victorian residences and commercial buildings. Warterfield documented...
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Scope and content: The collection contains material relating to the historical research and book publications of author-historian Sarah Foster Kelley, a seventh-generation descendant of General James Robertson and Charlotte Reeves Robertson. Includes numerous records about Robertson family history and research files on many of the families that were among the earliest settlers of what is now Nashville, Tennessee, such as the Cockrills, Dunns, Mays,...
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Abstract: Photocopies of a variety of documents relating to John Waltus Judd, Jr. from the 1850s to 1919.
Scope and content: Materials include letters written to Judd during his internment at Camp Chase, Ohio, a prisoner of war camp for captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Materials also include a list of pupils of John W. Carter at the "old log school house" on Woods Ferry Road in the 1850s, probably located in either Robertson County...
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Impact of Interstate development
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Impact of Interstate development
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Summary: A collection of organizational records of Belmont-Hillsboro Neighbors, Inc., including correspondence, photographs, newsletters and topical research files created by the organization. Also includes numerous publications produced by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The documentary resources, spanning ca. 1970 through ca. 1988, relate to the organizational leadership and activities of the citizens advocacy group,...
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Scope and content: A collection of documentary sources related to the Baker v. Carr "one man, one vote" case about Tennessee reapportionment, spanning ca. 1959 to ca. 2003 (bulk ca. 1960-ca. 1965). The papers relate to the lawsuit filed by urban voters against Tennessee's Secretary of State and Attorney General in the U.S. District Court of Middle Tennessee, (Civil Action No. 2724). Includes documentation of the record on appeal amended and supplemental...
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Scope and content: Annual reports from the Nashville Housing Authority (NHA) and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) from 1938 to 1996 (some years missing) and two project-specific reports on Capitol Hill Redevelopment Project (c. 1952) and Edgehill Redevelopment and Renewal Project (c. 1964). The collection documents the activities and mission of the Nashville Housing Authority and the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency...
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Abstract: The collection, spanning nearly one hundred years (ca. 1905-ca. 1998, bulk 1905-1972), documents Miss Fannie Battle's humanitarian vision to build and maintain a charitable day care facility for the care, nursing, and education of underprivileded children in the Nashville area, spanning nearly one hundred years (ca. 1905-ca. 1998, bulk 1905-1972). The sources consist of historical journals, scrapbooks, and photographic sources related to...
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