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Scope and content: Scrapbook (unbound and housed in two folders) of clippings and ephemera named for the "Then and Now" articles published in the "Nashville Tennessean Magazine," in 1949 and 1950, featuring a photographic history of Nashville scenes of the 1880s in comparison to the "now" of 1949 and 1950. The older photographs originated from the studios of Otto B. Giers and C. C. Giers, commercial photographers who lived and worked in Nashville....
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Scope and content: A scrapbook of newspaper clippings, programs, and correspondence related primarily to the music career of Nashville operatic singer Myra Bender, the Nashville Conservatory of Music, Little Theatre productions, and the Peabody Demonstration School. Also present are a few materials about Hidenari and Gwen Terasaki and their daughter Mariko's marriage to Mayne Williams Miller, of Johnson City, Tennessee.
Includes a handwritten narrative...
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Scope and content: Brochures and similar items providing a brief overview, illustrated with color photographs, of some of the zoo's exhibits, animals, special events, and educational activities. Quantity of materials is usually one to three items. May contain some photocopies.
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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.
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Scope and content: Yearbooks of the Tyne-Meade Garden Club of Nashville, Tenn. containing constitution and by-laws; lists of officers; membership rosters; meeting schedules, topics, and hostesses; exhibit guidelines and criteria; and related information.
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Scope and content: A small quantity of items about various aspects of Middle Tennessee and Nashville area agriculture, including booklets, brochures, and other items documenting agricultural history, products, and consumption.
Materials include: Essay by Thomas T. Potterfield, Jr. entitled "The Marketing of Agricultural Products in Nashville, Tennessee, 1850-1880" (n.d.); a booklet entitled "Expo Agriculture 1884-1984" (1985); a brochure about the...
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Scope and content: Timelines of events, most related to Nashville, Tennessee history. Most timelines compiled in the latter quarter of the twentieth century. However, periods covered by the timelines go back to the late 1700s and span up to the mid-1990s. There are particularly detailed timelines for 1910, 1913, 1937, and 1938. The collection also includes the "Local History" column written by Joseph Hewgley which appeared in the WPLN Guide in 1993-1994....
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Scope and content: Deed research sheets and color Polaroid photographs, providing architectural and historical information about the Sylvan Park and West Nashville areas of Nashville, Tenn. A planned subdivision at the turn of the 20th century, Sylvan Park was an integral part of the growing manufacturing town of West Nashville, located near the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the Cumberland River, and Charlotte Pike. A number of the early...
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Scope and content: A collection of three scrapbooks, featuring newspaper clippings about The Little Theatre Guild, Inc., of Nashville, Tennessee. The articles were published in "The Banner," and "The Tennessean" newspapers, ca. 1921-ca. 1932. The main theatrical performance venue was Hillsboro Theater.
Scrapbook #1, ca. 1927-ca. 1928, contains clippings created by the Publicity Department of the Little Theatre Guild, with information about theatrical...
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Scope and content: Variety of materials documenting events, celebrations, and observances related to various holidays. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item.
Holidays represented include: Christmas; Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead, also known as All Souls' Day); and Easter. Christmas materials include a few booklets of Christmas carols, some of which...
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Scope and content: Variety of materials relating to roads, streets, highways, turnpikes, and early trails in the Nashville and Middle Tennessee area. Most folders contain only one or two items.
Subjects include: an undated essay entitled "Early Trailways of Nashville," by Mrs. R.H. Jones; a brochure about development of Lower Broadway (ca. 1984); a brochure produced by Citizens for Better Neighborhoods in opposition to the construction of I-440...
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Scope and content: A small quantity of bibliographies, compiled lists, and a few bookseller catalogs featuring lists of books about Tennessee subjects, primarily history and biography.
Items include: "Bibliography of Legendary Tennesseans"; "Tennessee Bicentennial Resource and Program Materials" (1995); "Twenty-One Tremendous Tennessee Titles!"; "Core List of Tennessee Books for Public Libraries"; "A Suggestive List of Books for a Genealogical and...
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Scope and content: Lists of Nashville and Tennessee historical minutiae covering a wide variety of subjects, including events, transportation, people, organizations, politics, religion, geography, natural resources, entertainment, crime, and other topics. Some topics are rather obscure or very specific, such as Body Snatching (grave robbing); Dog Laws; and Milk Sickness, to name a few.
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Scope and content: Minute book of the Philharmonic Society of Nashville, Tenn. includes minutes of their organizational meeting on Oct. 19, 1898 and subsequent meetings through May 1900. Minutes include election of officers; meeting activities including performances by members mentioning the piece played, the instrument, the composer, and the performer; activities of other arts and educational organizations in Nashville; announcements; welcoming of...