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Scope and content: Janet Frey shares with StoryCorps Facilitator Esi Arthur memories of her family and childhood; attending Catholic schools; attending the prom; her high school graduation; college at St. Mary's of Notre Dame; her favorite books; traveling around Europe for five months after college graduation and during the Vietnam War; how the Vietnam War impacted her family and friends; and her teaching career in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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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: Includes a wide variety of material relating to schools in the Nashville area and elsewhere in Middle Tennessee. Most items outside of the Nashville area concern universities or colleges. In the collection as a whole, all types of schools are included, both public and private, and elementary, secondary, and post-secondary institutions. Materials are also included which concern or originate with school-affiliated groups and individuals, such...
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Abstract: Records and scrapbooks 1970-1996 (bulk 1974-1985) documenting the activities of historical preservation and advocacy organization, Historic Nashville, Inc. Items include many press releases for the period 1976-1985; four scrapbooks covering from 1970 to 1980; and a small quantity of other materials.
Scope and content: Press releases showcase a wide variety of Historic Nashville Inc.'s activities from 1976 to 1985, including their successful...
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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...
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Scope and content: Newspaper clippings, photographs and programs spanning the years from 1934 to circa 1990 (bulk 1940-1980)documenting the career of Nashville, Tenn. ballet instructor and dancer Albertine Maxwell and her students. The collection also documents the growth and increasing support and respect accorded ballet in Nashville throughout a large part of the twentieth century, evident through Albertine's founding of Les Ballets Intimes with...
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Series I. Edward Webb consists of items dating from 1901 to 1913 which document the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), including some newsletters; a variety of business cards, advertising correspondence, and other ephemera especially relating to tailors, hardware and dry goods stores, and other merchants in downtown Nashville; a few items from 1905 about the Nashville Grays militia company, and a few programs relating to performing arts. Particularly...
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Scope and content: Readers of the Tennessean sent in essays, poems, songs, and other items to the newspaper concerning their thoughts and feelings about the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Some reflected on how their feelings have changed since that time; others wrote about their experiences on that day. Submissions came from communities throughout Middle Tennessee, although the majority of submissions were from the...
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Scope and content: The collection includes written notes, transcripts, or reports based upon interviews done in 1980 by students with alumni who attended the school between 1913 and 1979. The questions are divided into seven sections. Questions range from factual (What years did you attend? How did you get to school? Did you have to take an entrance exam?) to opinion (Favorite subjects? Most difficult subjects? Teachers who stand out in your...
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Scope and content: This collection documents the many recitals, performances, and musical revues co-produced in Nashville by Sarah Jeter and Louise Smith between 1927 and 1940 in the course of their affiliation with Ward-Belmont, the Studio of Dancing, the School of Dancing of the Nashville Conservatory of Music, and the Dance Center. Also documented is information about their schools, their teaching, and performances by their students, as well as...
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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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Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Military - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Military - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Biographies, military records, obituaries, clippings, photographs, educational records, and other papers dating from 1899 to 1946, documenting the lives of S. George Cochron, a Nashville watchmaker, and his niece, Rebecca Evalyn Cochran Simmelink. (George and Rebecca spelled their last names differently.)
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Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Education - Special Collections Topics
Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Education - Special Collections Topics
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Abstract: This artifically assembled collection documents Hume-Fogg High School and its students, faculty, and alumni, and to some degree, the Nashville public school system, generally, throughout most of the twentieth century, with small portions from the late 1890s and first decade of the 21st century. The bulk of the material spans from 1900 to 1947. Formats include graduation programs and invitations, news clippings, publications, class and candid...
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Abstract: Four diaries (1881-1886) written by T. Leigh Thompson while attending school at Culleoka Institute (1881-1883) and Vanderbilt University (1883-1886), and during his summer jobs working as a traveling book salesman for Garretson & Co. The diaries form the heart of the collection and document a wide variety of subjects in Thompson's daily life. Eight folders of additional materials include: a partial transcript of the 1881 diary (Aug. only);...
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Scope and content: Papers of Cynthia Maddux, documenting her personal life; her dance education in Nashville, Tenn. with instructor Albertine Maxwell; her international career as a professional dancer in the 1970s and its sudden end; and her struggles with mental illness in the years that followed. Among the dancers documented in this collection are: Jose Molina; Luis Montero; Nala Najan; La Meri; Luis Rivera; Madame Sahomi Tachibana; Bhaskar; and...
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Scope and content: The Henry C. Hibbs Papers include approximately 75 cubic feet of materials that document his life and career as a leading architect in Nashville and the South. The collection dates from 1882 to ca. 1988 and contains a variety of materials on the history of Nashville during the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs of Nashville buildings like the American National Bank, the American Trust building, the City Market House,...
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Scope and content: Photocopy of scrapbook of newspaper clippings, ca. 1937-1941, concerning public health, school health programs, and related topics in Nashville, Tenn. compiled by Margaret McGee Higgins. Many pages in the scrapbook are arranged in a "layered" fashion. Such pages have been photocopied in their entirety, in their original layout, followed by copies of the individual articles from the same page. Each original layered page is identified...
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Scope and Content: Architectural and personal papers of Robinson Neil Bass, consisting primarily of architectural plans and renderings, news clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and related materials documenting numerous commercial, residential, and government buildings designed by Bass through the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection is organized in to two series: I. Building Projects; and II. Personal Papers.
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