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Scope and content: The 1910-1935 Oral History Project is comprised of 29 extant audio recordings conducted from 1980 to 1982 by two staff members of Historic Nashville, Inc. Focus of the interviews is upon lived experiences during the early decades of the twentieth century, particularly from the perspective of upper class and upper middle class, white, well-educated individuals.
General topics include: childhood, courtship and marriage, social life,...
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"Persomi's dreams are much bigger than the world of poverty and deprivation that surround her in the Bushveld of the 1940s and 1950s in South Africa. Persomi is young, white and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm. Persomi's world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her. Her older brother, Gerbrand,...
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"The first guidebook of its kind for the Volunteer State, Farm Fresh Tennessee leads food lovers, families, locals, and tourists on a lively tour of more than 360 farms and farm-related attractions, all open to the public and all visited by Memphis natives Paul and Angela Knipple. Here are the perfect opportunities to browse a farmers' market, pick blueberries, tour a small-batch distillery, stay at an elegant inn, send the kids to a camp where they'll...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of 15 audio interviews conducted in 2012 with members of the Bells Bend/Scottsboro communities by Nashville Public Library staff. The interviews highlight the historical family legacies in the communities and serve to preserve and promote the rural character of the area. Most interviews average about 45 minutes in length. Most interviews have indexes; there are no transcripts.
Interviewees include: Wesley...
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Scope and content: This category was established to include materials about horses (both individual horses as well as horses in general), horse breeding, breeders, farms, shows, and related subjects. As of 2012, only five items make up this collection. Items include two brochures about the Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration (1978, 1980), Waterfall Farms in Shelbyville, Tenn. (ca. 2008), and a single issue of the magazine, Middle Tennessee Equestrian...
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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: A small quantity of items about various aspects of Middle Tennessee and Nashville area agriculture, including booklets, brochures, and other items documenting agricultural history, products, and consumption.
Materials include: Essay by Thomas T. Potterfield, Jr. entitled "The Marketing of Agricultural Products in Nashville, Tennessee, 1850-1880" (n.d.); a booklet entitled "Expo Agriculture 1884-1984" (1985); a brochure about the...
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Scope and content: A collection of two scrapbook volumes and thirty-six folders of newspaper articles and ephemera compiled by Gilbert "Gillie" M. Orr, a nationally prominent authority on the Tennessee Walking Horse, comprised chiefly of his "Speaking of Horses" articles, a weekly newspaper column published in the Nashville Banner during the 1940s. Includes a few photographs, ephemera, and additional publications pertaining to horse shows, horse races,...
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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
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Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Scope and content: Fifteen interviews in various formats conducted mostly in 1977 and 1978 with individuals who were owners, or were the family of former owners of historic homes in Nashville, most of which had been in the same family for several generations. Several of the homes were constructed prior to 1800 during the early settlement period of Middle Tennessee. A few are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to their...
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Scope and content: A photographic collection of 2133 images, spanning the dates ca. 1960-ca. 1988, donated by the Johnson Johnson Crabtree architectural firm, of Nashville, Tennessee, documenting four decades of the architectural project work of Bruce I. Crabtree, Jr., F.A.I.A., a senior founding partner in the firm. The collection is comprised of photographic images of design projects of the architectural firm, Taylor & Crabtree, comprised of photographic...
15) Roads: 1935-1936
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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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Abstract: Account book kept by William and Nat B. Read of Rutherford County, Tennessee. At different time periods, and in different locations throughout the book, accounts were recorded in the form of a day book, ledger, and cash book, and use single entry bookkeeping.
Scope and content: William's entries begin May 1837 and continue through Jan. 1839. It is assumed that William operated a store; the location of the store is unidentified. Entries...
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Abstract: The Nashville Electric Service Public Relations Records (NESPRR) includes approximately 16 linear feet of material covering a range of subjects relating to the history of the electrification of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, spanning the time frame of circa 1866 to 1989, with the bulk of the collection concentrating on 1900 to 1989. The materials found in the NESPRR collection help demonstrate how the use of electricity evolved from its...
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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: The Taylor Roofing Company Records is a small collection of photographs and copy photographs of customer testimonial letters (approximately 44 items total) that provide a brief history of this local business and a snapshot of life in Nashville in the middle 1920s. Photographs of local residences and other buildings are included in the collection. Customer testimonial letters provide further documentation of local community members,...
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Scope and content: Twelve letters between members of the Turnbow and Dabbs families, 1872-1900, predominantly written from locations in Middle Tennessee. Most of the letters are written from A. J. (Adaline Jane) Turnbow in Farmers Valley, Perry County, Tenn. and Calvin and Julia Turnbow of Pleasantville, Hickman County, Tenn. to Margaret and Nathaniel Dabbs. Margaret Dabbs was the first child of Calvin Turnbow and his first wife, Adaline Jane. A few...