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Transportation - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Report consisting of photographs with captions showing rural road improvement projects of the Works Progress Administration throughout eastern and middle Tennessee during the 1930s. Arranged by county, the photographs show work crews, grading and improvement projects, quarries, construction equipment, and road conditions before and after WPA projects.
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Scope and content: A very small quantity of correspondence linked in some manner to Middle Tennessee. Items in this collection provide minimal information about broader topics, yet may still be useful to researchers who are looking for information on particular individuals, places, or very specific subjects. Items in this collection are located here due to the impracticality or impossibility of filing them under more useful, general subject headings....
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Scope and content: The first part of the collection consists of photocopies of letters written to Anita Williams, a Nashville, Tenn. resident, from Norman P. Earle, a Navy lieutenant from Des Plaines, Illinois, while he served aboard the destroyer USS Wadsworth (DD-60) during World War I. In his letters, he discusses life at sea, including drills, wargames, manuevers, day-to-day life aboard ship, weather and rolling seas, and as war progresses, he...
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Scope and content: Slightly over one month after the East Nashville tornado of March 14, 1933, Robert M. Williamson of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Nashville, Tenn. presented this paper before the Tennessee Academy of Science meeting on April 28, 1933. Subsequently, it was published in the Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science in July 1933.
Materials consist of the published issue of the journal; a typescript of Williamson's speech; photographs...
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Scope and content: Items include brochures and other materials which provide position statements and local government platforms of Tennessee Municipal League conventions for 1962, 1963 and 1965. Also included is a convention itinerary for a tour of Nashville in 1962, highlighting major developments throughout the city. A statement printed by the Grundy County Herald opposing the Tennessee Municipal League and the effort to combine the state departments...
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Scope and content: Yearbooks of the South Carolina Club of Nashville, Tenn. containing lists of officers; meetings, hostesses and topics; and membership rosters. Yearbooks are self-published and are usually decorated with artwork depicting South Carolina symbols or scenes.
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials relating to postal and monetary history in Nashville and Tennessee.
Materials include: A booklet about the first trip of the Highway Post Office from Nashville to Jackson, Tenn. (1949) which includes additional information about Nashville's postal history; an unopened envelope with cancellation marking the first air mail flight from Nashville, Tenn. to Ft. Worth, Tex. (1931); and three articles from...
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Abstract: Personal papers, news clippings and manuscripts of writings by author and playwright Virginia Armistead Nelson, spanning the years 1906-1923. Many materials are undated.
Scope and content: Personal papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence, particularly relating to her writing for the Nashville Banner newspaper and her submissions of works of fiction, plays, or poems to various magazines, agents, publishers or theatrical companies....
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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: 1922 Appraisal, plus account ledgers for 1921-1932 and 1946-1950 for H.G. Hill Company of Nashville, Tenn., a prominent local chain grocery. The appraisal includes plans of building footprints for numerous stores and facilities throughout the chain. The earliest ledger includes information concerning warehouse, sales, coupons, license fees, as well as what appear to be charitable contributions to organizations such as the Old Ladies'...
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Scope and content: One bound volume, entitled: "The Bride's Book: A Souvenir of the Wedding," illustrated by F.M. Spiegle and others, and published by Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York, copyrighted 1900. The book has forms on each page, to be completed by the bride. Only a portion of the book has been filled out. It documents the marriage of Marguerite Winstead and Harold Millard Greene who wed on Sept. 26, 1906 in Nashville, Tenn. Information...
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Scope and content:The Nashville Chapter American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) newsletters document the group's board meetings, fundraising projects and member activities. The collection spans the years 1960-1984 and is incomplete, missing many issues from the 1970s. The newsletters reflect the growth of women in the workplace, specifically in the broadcast industry. Notable members were Drue Smith and Doris "Cousin Tuny" Freeman. Also included...
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Education - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: The Flora Keen papers are comprised of mementos from her time as a student at Belmont College circa 1903. The collection features a school annual from 1904, a 1903 Belmont College brochure, scant correspondence written on Belmont college letterhead and Belmont College postcards dating from 1906-1974. Also included are coursework samples from 1902 and 1903 featuring a spelling test and five brief essays about British history as well...
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Scope and content: Two items relating to the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA. One item is a large illustrated booklet, produced in 1936, entitled: "Pictorial Handbook of the Tennessee Valley." It shows dams and agricultural scenes, and includes projections and plans for future activities of the TVA. Subjects discussed primarily focus upon dams, flood control, hydroelectric power, river navigation, lake and water recreation, electrification, and...
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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...
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Scope and content: Approximately 1200 newspaper clippings of marriage or engagement notices, and obituaries, mounted on sheets of notebook paper and laminated. Occasionally an article may be illustrated with a photograph. Many clippings do not have years indicated, however, those that do, run from 1915 to 1938. There does not appear to be any particular order to the way the clippings are arranged. Page numbers were placed on the pages, probably by...
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Scope and content: Nomination packet compiled by Henry L. Bledsoe, Jr. in an effort to nominate Coach Bob Cummings to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. (As of 2010, Cummings has not been inducted.) Materials primarily concern Cummings' career as a high school football coach at Isaac Litton High School in Nashville, Tenn. from 1947 to 1953 and consist mostly of photocopies of both newsclippings and school yearbooks. Detailed win-loss records have...
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Scope and content: The Jersey Farms Milk Service Photographs (c. 1920s-early 1930s) is a collection of eight (8) black and white photographs derived from an early sales or promotional booklet. The photo booklet was originally bound and was most likely used to advertise to consumers both the type and quality of products offered by this local company. The photographs demonstrate the various steps, as well as the machinery and equipment used, in dairy...
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Scope and content: Annual membership booklets and letters for the Monday Book Review Club, founded at St. John's Episcopal Church (Old Hickory, Tennessee) in 1959. Materials span the years 1963 through 1995 and document the title of the book read and the hostess' name for each monthly meeting.