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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville dentist Walter Morgan, conducted on 16 September 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 23 minute interview, Morgan discusses his experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including the rides and traveling to the Centennial.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Margaret Wright, conducted on 30 Aug. 1976 by Ann Wells as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 13 minute interview, Wright discusses her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. She specifically discusses some of the rides and exhibits at the Centennial. She also discusses President William McKinley's reaction to his wife's fainting...
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Nell Barnes, conducted on the 7 Aug. 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Barnes discusses her childhood and education; memories of riding the streetcar to Glendale Park; quitting school and going to work downtown; her marriage and children; and life in Nashville during the period of 1910-1930, including...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Mary Warner Mallison, conducted on 28 August 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 17 minute interview, Mallison discusses growing up at Renraw, her family home, and her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Margaret Thompson, conducted on 10 and 19 July 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 41 minute interview, Thompson discusses her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including President William McKinley's reaction to his wife's fainting at an Exposition event.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Ursula Greene, conducted on 12 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 45 minute interview, Greene discusses growing up in Columbia, Tenn.; her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition; women's fashions during the 1890s; and working as a hat maker and, later, a dressmaker in Columbia, Tenn
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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 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: 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 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 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: Newsclippings, spanning dates from 1918-1941, sometimes including entire pages or nearly complete issues, from the Nashville Banner and Tennesseean newspapers. Early papers sometimes feature photogravure sections. A few clippings relate to members of the Andrews family, especially the three sons of James and Lula Andrews, and a few articles document James D. Andrews's interest in local aviation matters.
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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...
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Scope and content: Interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 with individuals associated with buildings and businesses located on Nashville's Second Avenue North, known in the nineteenth century as Market Street.
Mrs. Frances Eakes - One page of notes, only; no audio. Lived in the Silver Dollar Saloon in 1925-1926 when her father, Willis W. Agee ran a drugstore on the premises. Eakes recalls the flood of 1926-1927 and "shanties" where...
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Scope and content: Seven small photograph albums, and numerous loose pages from one or two additional albums, containing a total of approximately 600 black and white snapshots showing the James E. and Mary (Williamson) Wilson family of Nashville, Tenn., their children, and grandchildren. Most of the photographs are from the 1897-1919 time period, but some photographs can be dated to 1939. Only one image is formally identified, although research by...