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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: Published reports for annual exhibitions of the Mechanics' Institute and Library Association of Tennessee which include the organization's charter; constitution; memoranda; addresses; and exhibit reports including classifications, awards, award winners, and judges' comments.
Classifications include agriculturally related products and processes such as cotton, wool, leatherwork and saddlery; domestic products and skills such as...
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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: An oral history interview with Corinne Frazier Calhoun Bailey, conducted on the 14 Feb. 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project concentration on Nashville history from 1910 to 1930. Bailey, the daughter of Nashville jeweler Tyler Calhoun, discusses the Tennessee Centennial of 1897; her father's business and how it failed during the early 1920s; her early memories of downtown Nashville;...
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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 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: A wide variety of materials relating to the Nashville arts scene, including items about art events, individual artists, galleries, museums, exhibitions, contests, public art projects, and related subjects, including special events and venues such as Fifth Avenue of the Arts; First Saturday Art Crawl; Arts at the Airport; and similar venues or events, many of them located in downtown Nashville. Many items include artist biographies...
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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: 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: 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 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 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 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...