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Scope and content: Personal papers of three members of the Fox family: Alberta O'Neill, her husband Peter, and their daughter, Anne Hester. Alberta O'Neill Fox's materials consist of a small datebook, probably manufactured in the late 1920s or sometime in the 1930s, in which she has made notations concerning birthdays, weddings, and dates of death of individuals, as well as personal and family medical events, such as surgeries, major illnesses, or...
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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: Materials include letters, memoirs, scrapbooks, unit histories and unit newsletters, photographs, oral interviews and transcripts, maps, and publications. These materials include some photocopies. The World War II Series of the Veterans History Project Collection emphasizes the participation of Nashville area citizens in the war effort, in both military and civilian capacities. Some materials acquired early in the project came from...
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Scope and content: Nomination packet compiled by Henry L. Bledsoe, Jr. in an effort to nominate Coach Bob Cummings to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. (As of 2010, Cummings has not been inducted.) Materials primarily concern Cummings' career as a high school football coach at Isaac Litton High School in Nashville, Tenn. from 1947 to 1953 and consist mostly of photocopies of both newsclippings and school yearbooks. Detailed win-loss records have...
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Scope and content: This collection provides basic information about a number of pre-1950 Tennessee radio stations and general radio broadcasting history, with emphasis on the 1920s and 1930s, as compiled by William D. Jackson. Series I includes summaries of individual radio station histories, mostly provided by the Broadcast Pro-file company of Hollywood, Calif. Some individual folders may have additional materials including notes, correspondence,...
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Abstract: Personal papers, news clippings and manuscripts of writings by author and playwright Virginia Armistead Nelson, spanning the years 1906-1923. Many materials are undated.
Scope and content: Personal papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence, particularly relating to her writing for the Nashville Banner newspaper and her submissions of works of fiction, plays, or poems to various magazines, agents, publishers or theatrical companies....
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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: Records, consisting of manuscripts, photographs, negatives and architectural plans, documenting the efforts of Historic Nashville, Inc. (HNI) to rescue and restore Nashville's historic Union Station, beginning with their initial efforts in 1975 and culminating in the reopening of the building as a hotel, and the observation of the 100th anniversary of the station and the 25th anniversary of Historic Nashville, Inc. in 2000.
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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: 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: A variety of materials, related mostly to the performing arts in Nashville, Tenn. in the early 1920s. Items include performance programs, news clippings, and other material. Some items have minor damage, and some appear to have been removed from a scrapbook or show other signs of having been glued down in the past. Many of the programs contain photographic illustrations.
Subjects include classical music, dance, and singing, including...
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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: 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: Contains information about Buva College Rescue Home and Training School for Negro Children, a private relief organization operated in Nashville, Tenn. by Dr. Moses Mullins. Contains brief financial statements (1946 and 1953); two brochures; publicity materials, including a large illustrated poster/program for a 1947 fundraiser held at War Memorial Auditorium, featuring performances by the Willia Mai Ford Smith, the Waterford Sisters,...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials concerning school integration in Nashville, Tenn., focusing on the leadership of principal Margaret Cate at Hattie Cotton Elementary School in the wake of the bombing that took place there early on Sept. 10, 1957. A significant portion of the collection also focuses on the local and national attention that the event received in the days and months following the bombing.
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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: Newspaper clippings, photographs and programs spanning the years from 1934 to circa 1990 (bulk 1940-1980)documenting the career of Nashville, Tenn. ballet instructor and dancer Albertine Maxwell and her students. The collection also documents the growth and increasing support and respect accorded ballet in Nashville throughout a large part of the twentieth century, evident through Albertine's founding of Les Ballets Intimes with...
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Abstract: Research papers compiled by Hutchison on Nashville architects and men's clubs at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and documents relating to Hutchison's involvement and leadership at Belle Meade Country Club in the early 1970s, especially its golf course.
Scope and content: Series I. Research files consist predominently of photocopies and hand-written notes relating to architects Herman Justi and W. C. Smith, especially...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials 1958-1991 created by Nashvillian Dr. Irene S.P. Francis including: biographical sketches of Dr. Francis, Adolpho Birch, Mary Carlotta Hughes, and Lillie Mae Howard; a 1958 constitution of the Haynes Heights Community Civic Organization and one letter to the Council of Community Agencies in 1965 with recommendations for a community center; various opinion pieces and letters written 1971-1991 by Francis...
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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...