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Scope and content: Two scrapbooks compiled by sports fan J.R. Heath, featuring news clippings, some photographs, and a few programs or other ephemera related to boys high school football and basketball teams at DuPont High School. Materials are compiled in two volumes. Volume 1 spans the time frame of 1943-1953; volume 2 runs 1953-1965. Basketball games were of special interest to Heath, as he frequently compiled box scores for every season, showing...
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Scope and Content: This collection documents various advertising and publicity activities for movie theaters owned by the Crescent Amusement Company and managed by Russell Parham Sr. The date span of the material is 1929-1983 with the bulk being 1930-1950. The majority of the collection focuses on the Princess Theatre in Nashville, with a number of news clippings and photographs featuring advertising campaigns for specific films. In addition to the...
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Abstract: Thirty interviews conducted with Nashville elders, recalling in autobiographical form their major life events and experiences. Most are audio recordings although a few may exist only as full or partial transcripts. Interviews were conducted as part of the statewide initiative known as Homecoming '86, a celebration of local communities and their history. Planning documents for the oral history project are also part of the collection.
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