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Scope and content: Four volumes and one folder containing records from 1928-1943 of the Nashville, Tenn. high school fraternity, Sigma Kappa Epsilon, also known as SKE. Records primarily contain basic administrative information about the fraternity's operations, such as the constitution, lists of officers and members, initiation procedures, partial minutes, and partial treasurer's records. Portions of the records also include information about social...
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Scope and content: A five-volume scrapbook collection, compiled by Nashville insurance executive Joe Thompson, Jr. with themes related to Nashville's community, civic, and business leadership during the 1940s and 1950s. Each scrapbook is indexed by personal names, primarily relating to events in the lives of Thompson's many insurance customers. The scrapbooks include primarily newspaper clippings from the "Society" sections of the Nashville Banner...
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Scope and content: This scrapbook compiled by Edith "Deedie" Davis while a student at the all-girls Ward-Belmont College preparatory school begins in late 1939, and continues through June 1941. Much of the material is newsclippings (many with photographs) about her, her activities, or her schoolmates, as well as boys from other schools who dated Edith or her friends, or were escorts at dances. Two young men's names appear frequently: Duncan Eve, of...
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Scope and content: Papers of Cynthia Maddux, documenting her personal life; her dance education in Nashville, Tenn. with instructor Albertine Maxwell; her international career as a professional dancer in the 1970s and its sudden end; and her struggles with mental illness in the years that followed. Among the dancers documented in this collection are: Jose Molina; Luis Montero; Nala Najan; La Meri; Luis Rivera; Madame Sahomi Tachibana; Bhaskar; and...
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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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