Scope and content: Shirley Marie Johnson shares memories of her abusive childhood; growing up in foster care; her foster parents; her education; her abusive marriage; her radio career; and starting a non-profit organization, Exodus, Inc. Interview recorded in the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library from September 2007 to September 2008. Each interview is approximately 40 minutes long and...

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...

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...

Scope and content: Records include two ledger books and other financial records; publicity and advertising materials, including a printed version of the Mrs. Grissom's Salads advertising song, "The Legend of Mrs. G.;" two photographs; news clippings and magazine articles; and a 50th Anniversary video recording on DVD. One ledger book documents the earliest days of the business in 1955, showing sales, salespeople, delivery and distribution throughout...

Scope and content: The collection consists of records and ephemera from 1973-2007 (bulk 1994-2006) created by Gaiete de Coeur Art and Study Club members. Club yearbooks, printed every two years, are found for every year from 1975-2007 except 1999-2001. The years 1979-1981 and 1983-1985 are represented with a copy or draft. Minutes from monthly meetings held during 1975-2007 include meeting-related items such as programs, meditations, financial...

Scope and content: Scrapbook #1: Inscribed: "from Mattie to Ma, Dec. 25, 1882," contents in this scrapbook date from 1881 to 1902. Most of the materials in this scrapbook consist of calling cards. About half are formally printed cards, purchased from local printers; about half are handwritten, which are probably the signatures of the individuals named. Interspersed throughout are frequent wedding invitations, many to ceremonies held outside of Tennessee....

Scope and content: Eight VHS videotapes about the life and legacy of Nashville, Tenn. educator, Julia Green, conducted in 1999 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the elementary school named in her honor. Videotapes consist of interviews with local historian, Carol Kaplan; Green's niece, Florence Weiland; and Harriet and John Malone. Green was the Malone's paternal great aunt. Tape #1, entitled "Julia Green: More than a Name," appears to...

Scope and content: Series I. Autobiography of Norvelle Dismukes, written in 1982, provides a detailed account of her life, her family, her education, and her career. Generally written in chronological order, she has a novelist's eye for detail, and provides rich emotional and physical descriptions about the people in her life and her surroundings. She writes about her family origins in Wilcox County, Alabama; her adoption by relatives in Nashville,...

Scope and content: This small collection of theatre programs and newsletters concentrates on productions at the Orpheum Theatre of Nashville, Tenn. which starred Miss Billy Long and her Players. Her specialty was apparently stories with a southern or Western theme, though she also appeared in other types of theatricals. A few newsclippings, which apparently originated from a scrapbook, include photographs of her, as do a number of the programs or...