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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Frances Lusky, conducted on 21 July 1976 by Leonard Wood as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 22 minute interview, Lusky discusses her family and experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including watching sculptors Belle Kinney and Leopold Scholz work on the Parthenon.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant William Lewis Barnes, conducted on 19 December 2002 by Ed Hamlett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 30 minute interview, Barnes discusses such topics as experiencing segregation while growing up in Nashville; attending McKendree Methodist Church; attending Vanderbilt University and Yale Divinity...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Mary Le Sueur, conducted on 11 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 30 minute interview, Le Sueur discusses her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition; her doll collection; and studying art with and posing for Nashville artist Gilbert Gaul.
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Scope and content: Eighteen invitations, predominantly to weddings. Other invitations include: Phi Delta Theta public literary exercises at their national convention in Washington, D.C. in 1884, featuring music by Pellettieri's Band; Nashville Literary Club; Columbia College (N.Y.) Law School Commencement, 1882; and two invitations to art exhibitions by students of Miss Sallie Thomas' art class, 1882, 1883.
Wedding invitations include: Eunice Ward...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials concerning film showings, film festivals, venues, and other items relating to film culture in Nashville, Tenn., predominantly from the early 21st century. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than ten items, and often only a single item.
Materials include: Belcourt Theatre showings and events; Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) and its predecessor, Sinking...
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Scope and content: A wide variety of materials relating to the Nashville arts scene, including items about art events, individual artists, galleries, museums, exhibitions, contests, public art projects, and related subjects, including special events and venues such as Fifth Avenue of the Arts; First Saturday Art Crawl; Arts at the Airport; and similar venues or events, many of them located in downtown Nashville. Many items include artist biographies...
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Scope and content: Posters, photographs, art prints, and sound recordings gathered by Ryman Auditorium Marketing Department, documenting selected Ryman Auditorium events since the 1994 renovation, with emphasis on concerts and performances since 2000. Performing artists depicted on the show posters (the most numerous part of the collection) are a stylistically diverse lot, including George Jones, Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart, Harry Connick Jr., Elvis...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with James H. Crowder, conducted on the 28 Aug. 1986 by Reavis Mitchell as part of the Homecoming '86 oral history project. Topics discussed during the interview include Crowder's business (Crowder Brothers Barber Shop) and its various locations over time; his family and childhood; attending school; learning to be a barber and working as a shoe shine boy; life in Nashville, including segregation; and...
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Scope and content: Administrative and other materials document the three-year history of Nashville Gospel Arts Day (1987-1989). Materials include planning notes, proclamations, publicity releases, grant funding requests, correspondence, performance contracts, local press coverage clippings, expense receipts, souvenir booklets, invitation lists, guest lists, and descriptive reports.
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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with retired Nashville home economics teacher Mildred Owsley Buchanan, conducted in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan discusses such topics as her childhood and early life in the area of Nashville known as Buttermilk Ridge on Lebanon Road; her early education, including the schools she attended; tenant houses and their...
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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 series of oral history interviews with former Nashville teacher George Boyles, conducted 17 May 1987-22 Nov. 1989 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses Nashville during the first half of the 20th century, including such topics as streetcar lines; city limits; 1918 train wrecks; an airplane accident in West Nashville; airfields; the last horse drawn fire engine; schools; the Tennessee State Fairgrounds; neighborhoods; the 1916...
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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with former Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, conducted 21 Mar. 1980-22 May1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Briley discusses such topics as his childhood and early life; his career as a lawyer and judge; Nashville politics; urban renewal and housing in Nashville; the events of Nashville's civil rights movement and race relations in the city;...
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Scope and content: Items documenting Nashville's relationships with international Sister Cities. Most material is related to tourism and partnership efforts, and primarily concerns the city abroad, more than Nashville, Tenn.
Sister Cities documented in this collection include: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Caen, France; and Magdeburg, Germany. The bulk of the holdings concern Magdeburg, Germany, with heavy emphasis on the Puppentheater der Stadt Magdeburg....
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Scope and Content: The records consist of minute books, programs, photographs, and newspaper articles created by the Piano Study Club between 1930 and 2012 (bulk 1942-2006). The Club's activities were well documented in the minute books which begin in 1942. The Club hand-made programs (also called yearbooks) that listed the songs performed at each gathering. These programs begin in 1930 and are organized by year. Some programs were taped or glued...
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Scope and content: Larry Patterson shares with his grandson, Alex Williams, memories of his achievements; travel experiences; marriage and children; military service during Vietnam; health and medical issues; political beliefs; family and early childhood; religious beliefs; career; residences; pets; hobbies; education; community involvement; family history and traditions; and favorite stories. He also shares memories of historical events during...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville retirement home residents Douglas Ginn, Lillian McGlothlin, Ruth McNish, and Lera Bush Moore, conducted on 9 July 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 24 minute interview, the four women discuss their experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman Douglas B. Havron, conducted 4 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 95 minute interview, Havron discusses such topics as his childhood and education growing up in Nashville; his family; his early aspiration to become the director of marketing for the...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman, former State Representative for the 53rd District, civic leader, and Davidson County, Tennessee Clerk John H. Arriola, Jr., conducted 5 June 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Arriola discusses such topics as his childhood and education...