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Scope and content: An oral history interview with John S. Bransford, Sr., conducted on the 9 July 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Bransford discusses his family; early life in East Nashville, including Edgewood, the family home; the development of the Belle Meade area; and real estate development in Nashville.
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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...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Nashville engineer Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted 18 August 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. Creighton discusses the building of Nashville's Parthenon, both the original replica built for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897 and the second replica building during the 1920s, as well as his and his father's roles in...
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Scope and content: This collection consists of scripts and programs for the Gridiron Show, an annual roast of Tennessee politicians and headline makers. The show was sponsored by the Nashville chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The collection is arranged in chronological order and features materials from 1964-1983. The collection is incomplete and is missing the years 1967 and 1977-1981. The bulk of the collection consists of...
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of the West Nashville Digest community newspaper, starting with volume 1 no. 3 (Nov. 1988) to volume 6 no. 3 (June 1993), with numerous gaps in between. The paper covered the west side of Nashville, Tenn. including the communities of Sylvan Park, West Nashville, Richland Park, and the thoroughfares of Charlotte Pike, White Bridge Road, and the region of Richland Creek. Multiple pages were routinely devoted to local...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials relating to Nashville and Tennessee celebrations of the American Revolution Bicentennial, compiled and collected by staff of the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library. Materials span from ca. 1973 to 1977. Nashville newspaper clippings comprise approximately one half of the collection. A small quantity of material consists of items related to specific activities and initiatives undertaken...
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Scope and content: Scrapbook compiled by Joseph R. Citti (1912-2003). The scrapbook documents his time working as a performer in 1933. The scrapbook, which is not in chronological order, contains mostly loose undated newspaper clippings about and reviews of a production called the Gaieties of 1933. Also included is a 1933 cast roster on Belmont Theater letterhead, two blank Actor's Equality Diplomas, contest rules, a completed entry form and a damaged...
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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.
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Scope and content: The collection consists of approximately .75 cubic feet of clippings, compact discs, ephemera, general information, and publications relating to the Tennessee Players, Inc. and dating from 1986 to 2008. The majority of the collection consists of ephemera from various Tennessee Players productions, including programs, bookmarks, postcards, and posters. The most heavily represented production is Words of Albert Schweitzer and the...
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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: The Tom Little Scrapbook, ca. 1967-ca. 1972, represents a sampling of published articles about the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist who illustrated for the "Nashville Tennessean" newspaper. Includes several newsclippings of political cartoons.
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Scope and content: Photocopy of autograph book of Margaret N. Armstrong, which was given to her by her uncle, I. Irwin on Christmas Day, 1848. Margaret is also referred to as Margie or Maggie. Book contains poetry, engravings of women and courtship scenes, and pen and ink drawings of flowers. Most signers of the book use only their first name, and many poems may not be original works of the persons who sign. Locations mentioned in the book include...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of audio interviews recorded by Historic Nashville, Inc. in 1976 about the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897. Interviewees discuss transportation to and attractions and buildings at the Centennial. Indexes are available; there are no transcripts.
Individual interviewees include: Adam G. Adams III; Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr.; Mrs. Douglas Ginn (with Lillian F. McGlothlin, Ruth Deal McNish, and Lera...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader James Stephen Turner, conducted 21 June 2006 by Andrea Blackman as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 51 second interview, Turner discusses such topics as his childhood and early education in Kentucky; the importance of community support for families and businesses;...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville and Florida businessman and real estate broker Adam G. Adams, III, conducted on 4 October 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 33 minute interview, Adams discusses his family; his experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition; and seeing President Theodore Roosevelt when he visited Nashville during the early 1900s.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Ophelia and Walter Stokes, conducted on 29 Aug. 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 32 minute interview, the Stokeses discuss their experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. They also discuss how the Exposition benefited the railroads because so many people travelled to Nashville for the event.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Wallace Westfeldt, conducted on 31 October 2002 by Milt Capps as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. During the ca. 2 hour interview, Westfeldt discusses such topics as his family and education; attending Sewanee; segregation; his journalism career, including working for Nashville's Tennessean newspaper covering civil rights;...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Jeannette Acklen Noel, conducted on 25 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 25 minute interview, Noel discusses her family; clothing and fashions during the 1890s early 1900s; and her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Although she was only five at the time of the Centennial, her father served as the...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Betty Chiles Nixon, conducted 19 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 one hour interview, Nixon discusses such topics as her childhood; her father, John Chiles, and his Cross Keys Restaurant; the decline of business in downtown Nashville;...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Nashville lawyer and judge Alfred Thompson Adams, conducted on the 16 Sept. 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Adams, who served Nashville as Chancellor of Part Two of the Davidson County Chancery Court from 1957-1970, discusses his childhood and education in Nashville; visiting the Beersheba Springs...