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Abstract: An artificially assembled collection of printed and manuscript cookbooks produced in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries from individuals and organizations, most of them from the Nashville or Middle Tennessee area.
Scope and content: Leonora Sophia Galby's cookbook, spanning the period from 1870 to 1938, includes a variety of recipes, including some from other cooks, hand-written in a pre-printed blank book for that purpose. It is possible...
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Abstract: The collection includes city directory and deed research, and photographs, comprising historical and architectural inventories of extant (c.1980) downtown Nashville buildings. A few photographs of structures in the Rutledge Hill area are also included in a separate series.
Scope and content: Series I. Downtown Survey. Documents and photographs composing a detailed architectural and historical survey of downtown Nashville buildings, c.1980....
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Scope and content: Morris Levine served in the Army Air Corps and as a Judge Advocate in Karachi, India, part of the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater of operations during World War II. His materials include maps, military records, a 1942 diary, documents relating to Jewish services and celebrations, Karachi newspapers, and a variety of other items.
Over 500 snapshots and negatives document a wide variety of scenes and activities relating to Levine's...
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Scope and content: A very small quantity of brochures, booklets, reports, advertising and publicity materials, and other items concerning Nashville and Middle Tennessee architecture and architects or architectural firms.
Items include: "Nashville Art Deco" (1984); Downtown Nashville Art and Architecture - Three Walking Tours (1987); a list of buildings and industrial plants in Davidson County, Tenn. completed by Foster & Creighton since 1885 (compiled...
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"The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise...This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of materials including numerous greeting cards, letters and photographs document the service of Edward E. O'Connor Jr. in the Army Air Force during World War II. Many cards and letters written to and from him during his service are significant for the information they contain about homefront life and life on stateside air bases. These materials are especially notable for the story they tell during the anxious month...
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Scope and content: The heart of the Joe Thompson Jr Papers is the nearly 600 photographs taken by Thompson while serving in the Army Air Force in Europe during World War II. They begin in England, where Thompson served initially as a U.S. flier attached to the Royal Air Force for training. They go on to document his experiences and those of his comrades in the 67th and 109th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadrons of the 9th Air Force. They include scenes...
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Scope and content: Materials in the collection include letters, memoirs, scrapbooks, unit histories and unit newsletters, photographs, videocassettes, oral interviews and transcripts, maps, and publications. These materials include some photocopies. As stated in the enabling Federal legislation, the scope of the project concerns individuals' participation in the military or as civilians during World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian...
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Scope and content: Materials include letters, photographs, oral interviews and transcripts, military records, excerpts from scrapbooks, and one videocassette. These materials include some photocopies. The Korean War Series of the Veterans History Project Collection includes materials relating to Nashville residents and veterans who served in the military during this conflict. Contents are also useful for examination of the Cold War era, as not all...
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Scope and content: Originally begun in 1937, and completed in 1962, John B. Beckett's "Empty Honors" is a fictional account of a feud between the Donnovan and Roy families in the early settlement period of Tennessee, and along the way includes "thumb-nail sketches of many renown people of Tennessee, war heroes, and legends" and poems. The typescript is divided into four parts, and an outline of each part is included at the beginning of the typescript....
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Scope and content: A small quantity of documents dating ca. 1939-1978 relating to the McKissack & McKissack architectural firm of Nashville, Tenn. Materials include two histories of the organization written prior to 1950; the firm's application for National Defense Construction Projects with the Federal government during World War II, including highlighting its work at the Tuskegee Army Airfield where the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) would...
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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: Various items relating to the short life and death of Maggie (Margaret) Lee Page. Collection includes a small autograph album, containing signatures dating from 1898 to 1906, with most entries dated 1900 and 1901. Most individuals sign with only their first names. A dual letter from Maggie's mother and Maggie when she was about four or five years old to Maggie's father is also in the collection. Several items related to Maggie's...
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Scope and content: This collection provides basic information about a number of pre-1950 Tennessee radio stations and general radio broadcasting history, with emphasis on the 1920s and 1930s, as compiled by William D. Jackson. Series I includes summaries of individual radio station histories, mostly provided by the Broadcast Pro-file company of Hollywood, Calif. Some individual folders may have additional materials including notes, correspondence,...
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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: Materials include letters, photographs, and one oral interview with transcript. These materials include some photocopies. The World War I Series of the Veterans History Project Collection includes materials relating to Nashville residents who served in the military during this conflict. Some materials acquired early in the project came from several areas outside of Davidson County, including Carthage, Kelso, and White Pine.
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