Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Description
Partnership 2020 is the Nashville region’s public/private economic development initiative responsible for the creation of jobs and capital investments through business expansions and relocations, talent development through education advancement and postsecondary alignment with workforce needs, and enhanced livability and quality of life through efforts such as transit infrastructure, affordability and health improvement.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Scope and content: Various types of advertising correspondence, including letters, postcards, testimonials, advertising samples and artwork, and similar materials, 1891-1915, apparently compiled by Nashville Banner business manager, Edgar M. Foster. Collection also includes two items relating to the Nashville Banner excursion train to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, in San Francisco, Calif. June 25-July 17, 1915.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Scope and content: 1922 Appraisal, plus account ledgers for 1921-1932 and 1946-1950 for H.G. Hill Company of Nashville, Tenn., a prominent local chain grocery. The appraisal includes plans of building footprints for numerous stores and facilities throughout the chain. The earliest ledger includes information concerning warehouse, sales, coupons, license fees, as well as what appear to be charitable contributions to organizations such as the Old Ladies'...
Author
Language
English
Description
Scope and content: Correspondence, financial and legal documents, and telegrams relating to activities and operations of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, along with invoices concerning personal as well as business expenses, covering the time span from 1881 to 1911.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman Thomas Charles (T.C.) Jones, conducted 10 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Jones discusses such topics as his childhood and education growing up in Nashville; his family; working for General Shoe Corporation; businesses and restaurants...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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....