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A First Step toward school integration, 1958 June

Pamphlet written by Anna Holden in cooperation with the Nashville Congress of Racial Equality group, 1958. The pamphlet tells how a CORE group helped parents and children, despite the violence of segr ...

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A gymnastics class at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies, between 1890 and 1899

A copy photograph of an 1890's gymnastics class of young female students at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. Will ...

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Aerial photograph of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1954

An aerial photograph of downtown Nashville, photographed for The Nashville Banner, by photographer John Morgan circa 1954. The view includes the urban landscape from the area adjacent to the Tennessee ...

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Aerial view of Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1940

A postcard aerial view of downtown Nashville, circa 1940. Leading up to the 1940s, Nashville's importance as a trading center grew steadily, and the city was known to the business world as "The Comme ...

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Aerial view of the demolition of the Andrew Jackson Hotel, circa 1971

This image provides an aerial view of the demolition of the Andrew Jackson Hotel, ca. 1971, to make way for the James K. Polk Office Building, which contains the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and t ...

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Ambidextrous-iron and silk!, circa 1965

An original political cartoon drawing created by Jack Knox, the Nashville Banner editorial cartoonist from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s. The two frames depict President Lyndon Baines Johnson with ...

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Andrew Jackson Hotel, Nashville, Tenn., 1952

A postcard of the Andrew Jackson Hotel. This hotel opened in August of 1925 on the east side of Memorial Plaza on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Deaderick Street. The massive brick structure boasted ...

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Annual Report for Nineteen Hundred Fifty Seven, Third National Bank, Nashville, Tennessee, 1957

The cover of a multi-page annual report for the Third National Bank in Nashville, Tennessee. This report covers thirty years, from 1927 through 1957. The artwork on the cover was painted by Nashvill ...

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Arranging for carols in business establishments, circa 1951 December 07

A photograph of Mrs. Francis X. O'Donnell, theater chairman, and Mrs. George Harmon, downtown chairman, of the Fannie Battle Christmas Carol Committee of 1951, seen contacting theater manager Floyd R ...

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As Professor U.B. Sharp and the Spanish Fox, Brian Hull interviews fellow Wishing Chair Productions staff Mary Bailey (Mary Mary, J.J.) and Pete Carden (Tommy Dog, Library Pete), 2007 November 14

An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with the Nashville Public Library's Wishing Chair Productions staff Mary Bailey (as Mary Mary and J.J.) and Pete Carden (as Tommy Dog ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Index 0A]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The first page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index lists the names of all streets a ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Index 0B]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. The second page of a two-page index to a plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G.M. Hopkins Company. This index contains a key in the upper ri ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 01A]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 01B ]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 02A]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 02B ]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 03A ]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 03B ]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 04A ]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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Atlas of the city of Nashville 1908. [Plate 04B ]

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several ...

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