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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: 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: 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: Reports and data compiled about climate and weather in Tennessee and Nashville. Statewide subjects include rainfall and current water resources in Tennessee in Oct. 1974; a report on the climate of the state in Feb. 1960, including freeze data, mean temperature and precipitation, norms, means and extremes of temperature, precipitation, humidity, and wind, and a map of the frequency of damage from tropical storms from 1901-1955....
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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: 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: 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: 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:The Nashville Chapter American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) newsletters document the group's board meetings, fundraising projects and member activities. The collection spans the years 1960-1984 and is incomplete, missing many issues from the 1970s. The newsletters reflect the growth of women in the workplace, specifically in the broadcast industry. Notable members were Drue Smith and Doris "Cousin Tuny" Freeman. Also included...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials concerning radio, television, and broadcasting history in Nashville, Tenn. and environs.
Stations and subjects documented in the collection include: Two radio-related magazines published in Nashville, Tenn. dating from the 1930s, including the premier issue of "Rural Radio"; public access television (1985); WLAC "Radio at War" booklet (ca. 1943); a flyer to "Save WRVU" (ca. 2011); and a folder of 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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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Education - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Education - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: The Flora Keen papers are comprised of mementos from her time as a student at Belmont College circa 1903. The collection features a school annual from 1904, a 1903 Belmont College brochure, scant correspondence written on Belmont college letterhead and Belmont College postcards dating from 1906-1974. Also included are coursework samples from 1902 and 1903 featuring a spelling test and five brief essays about British history as well...
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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: 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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Education - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Education - Special Collections Topics
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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: 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: A wide variety of materials concerning the establishment, growth, operations and exhibits of Cheekwood, an art museum, botanical garden, and mansion in Nashville, Tenn.
Materials include: general brochures; information about specific artists or art exhibits, including the Dale Chihuly exhibit in 2010; the botanical gardens; children's activities; fundraising efforts; a prospectus for establishing Cheekwood as a museum and botanical...
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Abstract: These materials center on aviatrix Cornelia Clark Fort, the first female pilot to die on active military duty, during World War II. The collection chronicles Cornelia's career and death through correspondence, official documents, photographs, and a few artifacts, as well as oral interviews and other research collected by Doris Brinker Tanner and Rob Simbeck. The collection touches briefly on the extended Fort family and includes four letters...
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Scope and content: A variety of material by and about women and women's issues. Materials focus upon women and girls, and within that focus, cover a wide range of subject matter. Generally, items included are not easily catagorized in any other way. Quantity of materials is usually one to three items. May contain some photocopies.
Materials include: an illustrated booklet, circa 1920, about a girls' camp, Camp Bon Air, located on the Cumberland...