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Architecture - Special Collections Topics
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
Downtown Nashville - Special Collections Topics
Historic Nashville, Inc. collections
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Abstract: The collection includes city directory and deed research, and photographs, comprising historical and architectural inventories of extant (c.1980) downtown Nashville buildings. A few photographs of structures in the Rutledge Hill area are also included in a separate series.
Scope and content: Series I. Downtown Survey. Documents and photographs composing a detailed architectural and historical survey of downtown Nashville buildings, c.1980....
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Scope and content: Twenty-two prints of pen-and-ink drawings of historical buildings, residences, the Nashville skyline, and military subjects. Most of the historic buildings are of structures in Nashville, Tenn., although a few prints are of buildings from Franklin, Tenn. The majority of the prints show structures in their historical context, rather than being renderings of their modern surroundings. Prints are a variety of sizes, the smallest being...
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Scope and content: A collection of newspaper and magazine clippings, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postcards related to Nashville history, ca. 1890-ca. 1940. Includes more than 600 pages, comprised chiefly of illustrated published articles, several written by Mary French Caldwell. A few pages have handwritten notes about the Weakley family.
The documentary scrapbooks cover multiple topics, such as published aerial photographs of Nashville's...
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Scope and content: Scrapbook (unbound and housed in two folders) of clippings and ephemera named for the "Then and Now" articles published in the "Nashville Tennessean Magazine," in 1949 and 1950, featuring a photographic history of Nashville scenes of the 1880s in comparison to the "now" of 1949 and 1950. The older photographs originated from the studios of Otto B. Giers and C. C. Giers, commercial photographers who lived and worked in Nashville....
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Scope and content: Reminiscences of artist Meyer Wolfe as dictated to his nephew, Dr. Lawrence Wolfe. A three-page biographical sketch of Wolfe is followed by Wolfe's fifty-page reminiscences of Nashville during the first part of the 20th century. The reminiscences are divided into chapters which correspond primarily to different geographic areas of Nashville: Capitol Avenue; Public Square; College Street; Union Street; Cherry Street or Fourth...
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Scope and content: Deed research sheets and color Polaroid photographs, providing architectural and historical information about the Sylvan Park and West Nashville areas of Nashville, Tenn. A planned subdivision at the turn of the 20th century, Sylvan Park was an integral part of the growing manufacturing town of West Nashville, located near the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, the Cumberland River, and Charlotte Pike. A number of the early...