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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'...
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Scope and content: Four undated typescript poems, two programs, and some notes relating to the career and poetry of Lucy H. King Smith (Mrs. Alfred Franklin Smith) of Nashville, Tenn. Poems, enumerated above, often are descriptive of specific places or locales. "The Jewel Box at Eastertide," for example, is about a building in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri. Both "The House on the Cliff by the Sea" and "Sunset on the Sea" are about Crestcliffe by...
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Scope and content: Yearbooks of the South Carolina Club of Nashville, Tenn. containing lists of officers; meetings, hostesses and topics; and membership rosters. Yearbooks are self-published and are usually decorated with artwork depicting South Carolina symbols or scenes.
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Scope and content: Records of the Woodmont Garden Club of Nashville, Tenn., including a minute book (Jan. 1960-June 1973), a 1973-1974 yearbook, and 35mm color photographic negatives of a meeting held on July 10, 1967 at the home of Mrs. Wade (Rebecca) Young. Minutes include date and location of meeting; reports from committees; program topic and speaker; notices of prizes, competitions, and shows; and other club business. Occasional social news...
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Scope and content: A very small quantity of correspondence linked in some manner to Middle Tennessee. Items in this collection provide minimal information about broader topics, yet may still be useful to researchers who are looking for information on particular individuals, places, or very specific subjects. Items in this collection are located here due to the impracticality or impossibility of filing them under more useful, general subject headings....
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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: One bound volume, entitled: "The Bride's Book: A Souvenir of the Wedding," illustrated by F.M. Spiegle and others, and published by Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York, copyrighted 1900. The book has forms on each page, to be completed by the bride. Only a portion of the book has been filled out. It documents the marriage of Marguerite Winstead and Harold Millard Greene who wed on Sept. 26, 1906 in Nashville, Tenn. Information...
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Scope and content: Various items relating to the short life and death of Maggie (Margaret) Lee Page. Collection includes a small autograph album, containing signatures dating from 1898 to 1906, with most entries dated 1900 and 1901. Most individuals sign with only their first names. A dual letter from Maggie's mother and Maggie when she was about four or five years old to Maggie's father is also in the collection. Several items related to Maggie's...
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Scope and content: The records of the Nashville (Tenn.) Branch of the English Speaking Union of the United States, 1957-1978, include financial records, administrative data, membership rosters, newsletters, clippings, and materials about visiting speakers. Many speakers were from overseas. Among the speakers were Margaret (Mrs. Denis) Thatcher (1969) and retired General Maxwell Taylor (1976). Clippings and rosters mention such Nashville members as:...
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Scope and content: Annual membership booklets and letters for the Monday Book Review Club, founded at St. John's Episcopal Church (Old Hickory, Tennessee) in 1959. Materials span the years 1963 through 1995 and document the title of the book read and the hostess' name for each monthly meeting.
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Scope and content: Programs of dance performances between 1954 and 1983, primarily in Nashville, Tenn., many occuring at the Ryman Auditorium. Many programs are from nationally or internationally acclaimed dance companies such as The Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the National Ballet of Canada, or are from performances by widely known individual dancers and professionals, such as Nureyev, Dame Margot Fontaine,...
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Scope and content: One volume ledger of expenses spanning 1929 to 1934 for the firm Beasley & Sons. The ledger provides a daily listing of expenses by category, arranged and totaled by month. Some of the categories include: freight and drayage; labor; taxes; insurance and rent; office supplies; payments to officers in the firm; and a wide variety of other expenses, comprised of approximately 30 categories in total. Yearly totals are consolidated at...
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Scope and content: Slightly over one month after the East Nashville tornado of March 14, 1933, Robert M. Williamson of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Nashville, Tenn. presented this paper before the Tennessee Academy of Science meeting on April 28, 1933. Subsequently, it was published in the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science in July 1933.
Materials consist of the published issue of the journal; a typescript of Williamson's speech; photographs...
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Scope and content: A small collection of baseball scorecards from Nashville Vols games from 1936-1940. Scorecards contain lineups with player names and positions, and have been completed to record the action of each game by fan Mel Dodson. Opponents include teams from around the Southeast, including Chattanooga, Memphis, and Little Rock. All scorecards are from Vols home games, except for one away game held in Memphis. One scorecard from May 19,...
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Scope and content: Yearbooks, spanning from 1943 to 1994, with only a few gaps, for the Browning Study Club of Nashville, Tennessee. Information in each yearbook generally includes: overall theme and individual programs for the year; names of hostesses, speakers, officers, and a roster of members; by-laws; committees; and related matters. Some yearbooks have notes or annotations, usually showing changes in programs or participants, luncheon reminders,...
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Scope and content:This collection documents the activities of the Blue Triangle League, later renamed the Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1919 to 1980. Included in the collection are black and white photographs taken by George H. Anderson, documenting the many activities the African American branch had available for its members, from study clubs to camping trips, to social events dating from 1919 to 1970. The collection...
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Scope and content: A collection of recipe sheets produced by the Home Service Department of the Nashville Gas and Heating Company from 1947 to circa 1953. Many recipe sheets have indications that they may have been broadcast on WLAC radio. Most sheets contain recipes, but often they are supplemented with general cooking or household tips, including such topics as how to host parties, holiday preparations, and other subjects, as well as occasional...
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Abstract: Records, mostly 1927-2017, including minutes, constitution and by-laws, yearbooks, and a wide variety of other material, including audio recordings of performances beginning in 2009, documenting the membership and activities of a women's musical club in Nashville, Tennessee.
Scope and content: Records consist of: Series I. Minutes, 1927-2024, include details of each meeting, including members performing, what instruments they played, and...
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Scope and Content: Scrapbook compiled by Clura Haney containing items circa 1933 to circa 1947. Contents include numerous postcards from various locations, including: Wilmington, Del.; Oklahoma; New York City; Chicago; Atlantic City and other locations in New Jersey; St. Louis; Florida; and Nashville, Tenn. Some pre-printed photographs, sold to tourists, are also included. Frequent brief annotations often accompany the items in the scrapbook. There...