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Scope and Content: Architectural and personal papers of Robinson Neil Bass, consisting primarily of architectural plans and renderings, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and related materials documenting numerous commercial, residential, and government buildings designed by Bass through the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection is organized in to two series: I. Building Projects; and II. Personal Papers.
Series I. Building Projects...
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Scope and content: Sixteen issues of The Mid-State Observer, an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. starting in July 1978. Topics include local and state politics; high school and college sports; schools; religious news (from both Christian and Muslim points of view); music; theater; small businesses and business owners; housing; editorials; and discussion of racism, discrimination, and economic conditions. Frequent articles appear...
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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: 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: The Metropolitan Weekly was an African-American newspaper published in Nashville, Tenn. beginning in September 1980. Format was tabloid sized, with photographs, news articles, opinion pieces, and advertising relevant to the African-American community, with emphasis on the geographic area of North Nashville. Although desiring to grow in to a weekly publication, as reflected in its name, the newspaper generally published twice a month...
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Scope and content: A group of four different titles of Nashville community newspapers published by Norma Condra in the 1980s. These newspapers were distributed weekly for free, and had their origin as a shopper type of publication which primarily published advertisements, consisting of display ads for businesses, as well as classified ads from individuals who were selling cars, real estate, pets, offering services, and other types of advertising....
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Scope and content: The 1910-1935 Oral History Project is comprised of 29 extant audio recordings conducted from 1980 to 1982 by two staff members of Historic Nashville, Inc. Focus of the interviews is upon lived experiences during the early decades of the twentieth century, particularly from the perspective of upper class and upper middle class, white, well-educated individuals.
General topics include: childhood, courtship and marriage, social life,...
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Scope and content: Six audio recordings of interviews with ten individuals relating to their recollections about Nashville people and places. A few recordings are of poor quality or have tape or microphone noise. Contents include:
One series of short interviews with five individuals concerning the Hermitage Hotel, recorded in 1977, probably just before the building was shuttered by codes enforcement, due to its deteriorating condition. Most individuals...
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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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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, from 1878 to 1998 (bulk 1916-1998) documenting the history of the Nashville Banner newspaper, with isolated items concerning some individual libel cases (1917-1939). Items were originally housed in or with the Banner Clippings Files and were removed or rehoused for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference Files,...
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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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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, spanning 1910 to 1998 but mostly from 1941 to 1974, documenting various subjects about Nashville, Tenn., and used by Nashville Banner newspaper 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...
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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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Abstract: Photographs, news clippings, letters, and a scrapbook documenting the personal, professional, and social lives of Elizabeth and Bill Weaver of Nashville, Tennessee. The dates of the materials are 1858-1996 with the bulk being from 1940-1975.
Scope and content: Series I. Family (1858-1970, 1996) - contains photos, clippings and letters concerning the Weaver family and the Craig family of Nashville, Tennessee. This series comprises approximately...
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Scope and content: Interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 with individuals associated with buildings and businesses located on Nashville's Second Avenue North, known in the nineteenth century as Market Street.
Mrs. Frances Eakes - One page of notes, only; no audio. Lived in the Silver Dollar Saloon in 1925-1926 when her father, Willis W. Agee ran a drugstore on the premises. Eakes recalls the flood of 1926-1927 and "shanties" where...
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Scope and content: Booklet produced by Benson Printing Company ca. 1922, and edited and compiled by Donald H. Grant and Munce Pigue, showing single-page cartoons of various Nashville, Tenn. businessmen. Images feature a photograph of the man's head, attached to a cartoon body. Numerous biographical details are illustrated on the same page, and often relate to hobbies, organizations, leisure activities, and other less-public aspects of the individual....
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Scope and content: Biographies, military records, obituaries, clippings, photographs, educational records, and other papers dating from 1899 to 1946, documenting the lives of S. George Cochron, a Nashville watchmaker, and his niece, Rebecca Evalyn Cochran Simmelink. (George and Rebecca spelled their last names differently.)
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Abstract: The Nashville Electric Service Public Relations Records (NESPRR) includes approximately 16 linear feet of material covering a range of subjects relating to the history of the electrification of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, spanning the time frame of circa 1866 to 1989, with the bulk of the collection concentrating on 1900 to 1989. The materials found in the NESPRR collection help demonstrate how the use of electricity evolved from its...
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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: Photocopies of records, consisting predominantly of meeting minutes, and supplemented by a variety of other materials including promotional literature, applications, and reference materials from organizations such as Operation Northtown of the Middle Tennessee Business Association; the Small Business Administration; and the Businessmen's Development Corporation of Philadelphia, Penn., which served as a model for the N.B.D. and which...