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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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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials relating to postal and monetary history in Nashville and Tennessee.
Materials include: A booklet about the first trip of the Highway Post Office from Nashville to Jackson, Tenn. (1949) which includes additional information about Nashville's postal history; an unopened envelope with cancellation marking the first air mail flight from Nashville, Tenn. to Ft. Worth, Tex. (1931); and three articles from...
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Scope and content: Ledger contains financial accounts, 1836-1855, maintained by R.H. Barry. Barry is believed to have been an officer of the Franklin Turnpike Company, perhaps its treasurer, president, or both. Records from 1836 to 1839 are the most detailed, containing debits and credits to individuals as toll gate keepers and for construction and maintenance of the road. Some entries relate to the hiring of slaves to work on the road. Toll gate...
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Scope and content: Brochures, programs, historical sketches, and other materials documenting various forts and pioneer stations in Middle Tennessee. Many items are geared toward tourism, but often contain historical background. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several items. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item.
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Scope and content: The collection consists of one scrapbook and a folder of materials related primarily to the careers and civic interests of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Hume, of Nashville, circa the late 19th and early 20th century. Includes newsclippings about the Hume family, Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company, telephone business sources, poetry, philosophical gleanings, political tickets, school report cards, travel ephemera, correspondence, and...
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Scope and content: Lists of Nashville area organizations including officers, contact information, and meeting times and locations, compiled and distributed by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. Directories are for particular types of organizations and titled as follows: business and professional organizations; civic organizations; service and luncheon clubs; state, regional, and national associations headquartered in Nashville; and women's organizations....
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Scope and content: Two account books containing records relating to store accounts, student accounts, and presumably some personal accounts. Both books contain accounts from 1848, 1854 (predominantly store accounts), and 1863 (predominantly students' accounts). The two books may have been used in conjunction with each other, with one serving as a daybook, and the other as a journal. Store accounts include name of individual, items purchased, and their...
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Scope and content: Diary used as autograph book. Inscription in front indicates that Gladys Charlestine Matlock of Knoxville was given the diary by Peg Kessner at Christmas 1929. The book is signed by classmates of Matlock at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College in Nashville, Tenn. during the spring of 1933. Inscriptions include quotes, aphorisms, rhymes, humorous ditties and poems, and an occasional drawing or sketch. Some students...
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Scope and content: A typescript book of annotated U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute quadrangle maps, cut into quarters, showing locations of pre-1875 homes and other historic sites in the vicinity of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., with commentary and source citations, compiled in 1973 by Laurence Trabue. His book includes a site index by name of house, owner, or property. Trabue's findings were based on research, personal knowledge, and visits...
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Scope and content: Includes a variety of items relating to parks, primarily in Nashville, but also nearby state parks and others. Most of these parks are operated by local or state government, but not all parks fall into such categories. Most items are brochures, usually illustrated, and often with park maps, when appropriate. Brochures often highlight park events, recreational or educational opportunities, facilities, historical significance, flora...
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Scope and content: Notebook inscribed on cover: "The Modern Bible Schools - E.E. Craig." Appears to be a notebook for a course of the same name; first pages of the book include an outline. Contents concern religious instruction; historical information about religious education, study, and teaching, including references to Judaic and Christian history; information about curriculum; charitable, educational and mission work in schools; methodology; financial...
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Scope and content: A collection of seven scrapbooks of business-related newspaper clippings compiled by Mary S. Buckner (Mrs. Henry K. Buckner, Sr.), spanning ca. 1953-ca. 1984. The scrapbooks are comprised chiefly of Nashville-related business articles published in "The Banner," and "The Tennessean" newspapers. The business writings cover topics about property purchases for commercial development, banks and various bank mergers, the NLT Corporation,...
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Scope and content: Letters, mostly from the 1850s, written by William Hague from Nashville and Richland, Tennessee, and a few other locations, to his brother, Rev. Isaac Hague in Illinois, and other family. William Hague writes a great deal concerning agricultural matters, especially prices, livestock, and training horses. He also writes in some detail about his personal finances, his health, and land deals in Illinois, Iowa, and Texas. One letter...
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Scope and content: Collection contains a wide variety of publications from the 19th and 20th centuries, most published in Nashville, Tenn. Types of periodicals include women's magazines, religious publications from the Methodist Publishing House, literary and educational magazines, magazines including articles about Nashville, the Tennessee Centennial, and others.
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Scope and content: Seven hand-colored limited edition prints produced in 1979-1980 of historical engravings of various historic buildings and scenes in Nashville, Tenn., signed and numbered by the colorist, and ranging in size from 19 x 25 in. to 22 x 30 in. Steamboat on the Cumberland and Nashville Inn were produced for Nashville's Century III celebration in 1979, and are mayor's proofs, signed by Mayor Richard H. Fulton. Three prints were specially...
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Scope and content: A variety of material relating to Nashville, Tenn. area hotels. Items include brochures, advertisements, menus, programs from special events, including holiday parties and gatherings, and a variety of other materials.
Some items worth special mention include: grand opening program for the Andrew Jackson Hotel (1925); materials relating to the 100th anniversary of the Hermitage Hotel (2009-2010); a ticket to the Christmas Dance...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville dentist Walter Morgan, conducted on 16 September 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 23 minute interview, Morgan discusses his experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including the rides and traveling to the Centennial.
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Abstract: Comprised of original newsreel, video and audio tapes, recordings of freedom and protest songs along with recorded sermons and speeches. These materials were donated or purchased through the Robin and Bill King Foundation and are part of the Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division. Individual recordings are cataloged separately.
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Scope and content: Records of the Central High School Alumni Association (Nashville, Tenn.), 1963-1986. Materials include programs and invitations; correspondence; mailing lists; and clippings. Also included is a certificate honoring H. Wade Young as a member of the class of 1920, the third class to graduate from the school. A poem entitled, "Class History of 1921" and an initial draft by Rebecca Whitsitt Young is also included.
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Abstract: Consisting of rare and unique items that give historical sketches of race relations in the south, civil rights, school integration, segregation, race riots, economic discrepancy among southern African Americans and civil rights legislation. Materials in the collection were donated or purchased through the Robin and Bill King Foundation and are part of the Civil Rights Collection of the Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division....
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