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Scope and content: Three audio recordings created in 1986 by Historic Nashville, Inc. in which the speakers describe and discuss homes, schools, churches, and various historical minutiae in the following neighborhoods: Lockeland Springs (William Henry Oliver); Belmont-Hillsboro (Eugene TeSelle) and Edgefield. Particularly of note are the subjects of segregation and desegregation in schooling and housing, discussed at length in both the Oliver and...
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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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: 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,...