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Scope and content: Parents' correspondence with teachers concerning students' performance; pupils' notes of excuse for absences, tardiness, or necessity of leaving classroom; teacher reports; lessons; forms; and an unidentified tintype of a group of women, probably of Willie Williams during her time as principal at Tarbox School, with her teachers.
Also included is an undated personal letter from Williams to a Mr. Cunninggum, in which she is distressed...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader David Kirpatrick (Pat) Wilson, conducted 13 Sept. 2006 by Cabot Pyle and Kenneth L. Roberts as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 14 minute interview, Wilson discusses such topics as his childhood and education; attending Wallace University School; serving...
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Scope and content: Diplomas, certificates, and similar items relating to the Warner and Frazer families of Nashville, Tenn., most relating to their attendence at Ward Seminary for Young Ladies, University of Nashville, Cumberland University, and First Presbyterian Church.
Items in box 1 relate to the Warner family and include 18 diplomas and certificates of proficiency in various classes from Ward Seminary for Young Ladies, 1896-1902 for the following...
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Scope and content: Biographical and subject clipping files, collected by Nashville Room staff since ca. 1970. Biographical files cover thousands of Nashvillians and Tennesseans, and subject files cover numerous general topics of local interest, such as buildings, businesses, cemeteries, churches, historic homes, forts, and parks. There are binders of the most heavily used files across from the main desk in the Nashville Room for the following topics:...
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Scope and content: The minute book includes information about the operation of the Second Presbyterian Church Sabbath School, apparently a school operated under church auspices, but not directly related to church services or Sunday schools. Some of the kinds of information appearing in the minutes include: fundraising and offerings for the school; operations of the school library; financial reports; committee reports; the annual picnic; the number...
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Scope and content: Yearbook; commencement invitations; programs to performances, concerts and recitals addressed to the Meguiar family of Madison, Tenn.; clippings; a copy of the Buford final exam; and a funeral program for Mr. E.G. Buford.
The 1912 yearbook includes a wealth of information about the programs, course of study, and activities of the students and school, describing performances, recitals, and other events. These descriptions include...
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Education - Special Collections Topics
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Abstract: This artifically assembled collection documents Hume-Fogg High School and its students, faculty, and alumni, and to some degree, the Nashville public school system, generally, throughout most of the twentieth century, with small portions from the late 1890s and first decade of the 21st century. The bulk of the material spans from 1900 to 1947. Formats include graduation programs and invitations, news clippings, publications, class and candid...
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Scope and content: Eight VHS videotapes about the life and legacy of Nashville, Tenn. educator, Julia Green, conducted in 1999 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the elementary school named in her honor. Videotapes consist of interviews with local historian, Carol Kaplan; Green's niece, Florence Weiland; and Harriet and John Malone. Green was the Malone's paternal great aunt. Tape #1, entitled "Julia Green: More than a Name," appears to...
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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: Genealogical charts of prominent families and related materials; posters related to Nashville and Tennessee events and history; diplomas; certificates; photographs; and artwork.
I. Genealogical charts and materials, 1973-1980. Genealogical pedigree charts for several prominent Nashville families, including James Robertson, and other oversize materials of genealogical interest.
II. Posters, 1963-2008. Posters for Nashville area...
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Scope and content: Records of the Bailey School Parent-Teacher Association of Nashville, Tenn., 1930-1972 contain a wide variety of information about the activities of the organization, as well as various school and community issues.
Foremost among these records is a history record book, consisting of annual entries documenting activities of the Bailey School PTA throughout the academic year, from 1930 to 1970. Records are most verbose for the period...
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Scope and content: Two scrapbooks compiled by sports fan J.R. Heath, featuring news clippings, some photographs, and a few programs or other ephemera related to boys high school football and basketball teams at DuPont High School. Materials are compiled in two volumes. Volume 1 spans the time frame of 1943-1953; volume 2 runs 1953-1965. Basketball games were of special interest to Heath, as he frequently compiled box scores for every season, showing...
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Early Nashville - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: The Flora Keen papers are comprised of mementos from her time as a student at Belmont College circa 1903. The collection features a school annual from 1904, a 1903 Belmont College brochure, scant correspondence written on Belmont college letterhead and Belmont College postcards dating from 1906-1974. Also included are coursework samples from 1902 and 1903 featuring a spelling test and five brief essays about British history as well...
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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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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with retired Nashville home economics teacher Mildred Owsley Buchanan, conducted in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan discusses such topics as her childhood and early life in the area of Nashville known as Buttermilk Ridge on Lebanon Road; her early education, including the schools she attended; tenant houses and their...
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Scope and content: Eighteen invitations, predominantly to weddings. Other invitations include: Phi Delta Theta public literary exercises at their national convention in Washington, D.C. in 1884, featuring music by Pellettieri's Band; Nashville Literary Club; Columbia College (N.Y.) Law School Commencement, 1882; and two invitations to art exhibitions by students of Miss Sallie Thomas' art class, 1882, 1883.
Wedding invitations include: Eunice Ward...
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Abstract: Correspondence, 1930-1934, from lawyers E.L. McNeilly and Henry E. Colton to Joseph Thompson, president of the Board of Trustees of Robertson Academy, concerning land ownership.
Scope and content: Documents contain a copy of extensive legal research performed by E.L. McNeilly in 1911 and forwarded to Joseph Thompson in 1930, concerning the legal status of the land where Robertson Academy was built and the relationship of land ownership...
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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
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Scope and content: A small quantity of materials concerning school integration in Nashville, Tenn., focusing on the leadership of principal Margaret Cate at Hattie Cotton Elementary School in the wake of the bombing that took place there early on Sept. 10, 1957. A significant portion of the collection also focuses on the local and national attention that the event received in the days and months following the bombing.
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Scope and content: Brief writings about various facets of Nashville history, most of which are self-explanatory by their title. "Early historical markers" is about sites marked in 1897 as locations where early settlers had been killed by Indians prior to 1800. The essay about Waverly Place refers also to A.W. Putnam, owner of the former residence by that name. A few articles include personal reminiscences by Beasley.
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Scope and content: A series of oral history interviews with former Nashville teacher George Boyles, conducted 17 May 1987-22 Nov. 1989 by Mary Glenn Hearne. Boyles discusses Nashville during the first half of the 20th century, including such topics as streetcar lines; city limits; 1918 train wrecks; an airplane accident in West Nashville; airfields; the last horse drawn fire engine; schools; the Tennessee State Fairgrounds; neighborhoods; the 1916...