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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: Minute book of the Philharmonic Society of Nashville, Tenn. includes minutes of their organizational meeting on Oct. 19, 1898 and subsequent meetings through May 1900. Minutes include election of officers; meeting activities including performances by members mentioning the piece played, the instrument, the composer, and the performer; activities of other arts and educational organizations in Nashville; announcements; welcoming of...
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Scope and content: Includes yearbooks, bylaws, rosters, brochures, publications, programs, publicity and recruitment materials, annual reports, minutes, and related items about a wide variety of Nashville and Tennessee organizations and clubs. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders.
Types of organizations, divided into series as follows, include: advocacy organizations; civic and charity groups; educational groups; environmental...
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Scope and content: Records of the Central High School Alumni Association (Nashville, Tenn.), 1963-1986. Materials include programs and invitations; correspondence; mailing lists; and clippings. Also included is a certificate honoring H. Wade Young as a member of the class of 1920, the third class to graduate from the school. A poem entitled, "Class History of 1921" and an initial draft by Rebecca Whitsitt Young is also included.
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Scope and content: Yearbooks, spanning from 1943 to 1994, with only a few gaps, for the Browning Study Club of Nashville, Tennessee. Information in each yearbook generally includes: overall theme and individual programs for the year; names of hostesses, speakers, officers, and a roster of members; by-laws; committees; and related matters. Some yearbooks have notes or annotations, usually showing changes in programs or participants, luncheon reminders,...
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Scope and content: The documentary sources of the collection consist of minute book records, yearbooks, handwritten narratives, correspondence, photographs, and various receipts and financial statements. The thirteen illustrated yearbooks are published booklets, spanning 1909-1911; 1914-1918; 1919-1923; 1924-1926; 1927-1928, with detailed information about the literary programs, officers, and membership. Several pages of handwritten notes provide...
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Nelson Andrews, conducted 25 Aug. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour and 46 minute interview, Andrews discusses such topics as Nashville during the 1940s when he first came to town as a child; leadership; attending Vanderbilt; the advantages...
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Scope and content: The records of the Nashville (Tenn.) Branch of the English Speaking Union of the United States, 1957-1978, include financial records, administrative data, membership rosters, newsletters, clippings, and materials about visiting speakers. Many speakers were from overseas. Among the speakers were Margaret (Mrs. Denis) Thatcher (1969) and retired General Maxwell Taylor (1976). Clippings and rosters mention such Nashville members as:...
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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: 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: Spanning the years 1912 to 1975, this collection contains yearbooks, minutes, obituaries, clippings, photographs, papers, correspondence, and miscellanea from the Nashville, Tenn., women's music club, Vendredi Musicale. The collection also includes five items from two other clubs, the Women's Musicale and the Musical Alumnae Club. Lela Hamilton (1916-1999), former club officer and member of the clubs, collected the materials.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman and civic leader Edward F. (Eddie) Jones, conducted 3 Nov. 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of The Turner Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Jones discusses such topics as growing up in East Nashville during the Great Depression; how he became a journalist and started working for the Nashville...
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Abstract: Records, mostly 1927-2016, including minutes, constitution and by-laws, yearbooks, and a wide variety of other material, including audio recordings of performances beginning in 2009, documenting the membership and activities of a women's musical club in Nashville, Tennessee.
Scope and content: Records consist of: Series I. Minutes, 1927-2015, include details of each meeting, including members performing, what instruments they played, and...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of audio interviews with Nashville business and civic leaders and local restaurateurs. The interviews detail projects conducted by business and civic leaders that positively impacted the Nashville community and the stories of Southerners that eat, serve and consume food and drink locally. Some interviews include an index and transcript. Many individual interviews in this collection have been cataloged separately,...
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Abstract: Scrapbook created by an unidentified member of the Granbery family of Nashville, Tenn., probably Mrs. W.L. Granbery, consisting of news clippings, postcards, photographs and manuscripts, primarily concerning events in Nashville and Nashvillians during World War I. Most items are undated.
Scope and content: Newspaper clippings include poems, general war news, casualty numbers, actions of the 117th Regiment, 114th Field Artillery, and the...
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Civil Rights - Special Collection Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Nashville Banner - Special Collections Topics
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Abstract: A wide variety of materials, spanning 1910 to 1998 but mostly from 1941 to 1974, documenting various subjects about Nashville, Tenn., and used by Nashville Banner newspaper reporters for reference during their daily work. Items were originally housed in the Banner Clippings Files and were removed for preservation purposes by Nashville Public Library staff to form this collection.
Scope and content: The Nashville Banner Reporter Reference...
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Abstract: The Harry C. Monk Papers are focused on his work as an avid bird watcher in the Nashville, Davidson County area and are comprised of his daily journals, bird observations and data, various documents from ornithological associations, correspondence, photographs, maps, butterfly observations, and family papers. Various papers from other local noted ornithologists, such as Amelia Laskey, Albert Ganier, George Mayfield, and others, are also...
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Scope and content: The Henry C. Hibbs Papers include approximately 75 cubic feet of materials that document his life and career as a leading architect in Nashville and the South. The collection dates from 1882 to ca. 1988 and contains a variety of materials on the history of Nashville during the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs of Nashville buildings like the American National Bank, the American Trust building, the City Market House,...