Community Life - Special Collections Topics

Scope and content: Personal papers of three members of the Fox family: Alberta O'Neill, her husband Peter, and their daughter, Anne Hester. Alberta O'Neill Fox's materials consist of a small datebook, probably manufactured in the late 1920s or sometime in the 1930s, in which she has made notations concerning birthdays, weddings, and dates of death of individuals, as well as personal and family medical events, such as surgeries, major illnesses, or...

Scope and content: The first part of the collection consists of photocopies of letters written to Anita Williams, a Nashville, Tenn. resident, from Norman P. Earle, a Navy lieutenant from Des Plaines, Illinois, while he served aboard the destroyer USS Wadsworth (DD-60) during World War I. In his letters, he discusses life at sea, including drills, wargames, manuevers, day-to-day life aboard ship, weather and rolling seas, and as war progresses, he...

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...

Scope and content: The collection consists of 15 audio interviews conducted in 2012 with members of the Bells Bend/Scottsboro communities by Nashville Public Library staff. The interviews highlight the historical family legacies in the communities and serve to preserve and promote the rural character of the area. Most interviews average about 45 minutes in length. Most interviews have indexes; there are no transcripts. Interviewees include: Wesley...

Abstract: Digital video recordings of interviews focusing on individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or transsexual and who were present in Middle Tennessee before 1970. Many interviews are supplemented with scans of photographs, documents, and other materials contributed by the interviewee. Scope and Content: The Brooks Fund History Project consists of a total of 28 video interviews, containing more than 45 hours of content,...

Scope and content: Newspaper clippings and scrapbook containing clippings concerning various activities related to the Century III celebration, a year-long commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of Nashville.

Scope and content: Scrapbook #1: Inscribed: "from Mattie to Ma, Dec. 25, 1882," contents in this scrapbook date from 1881 to 1902. Most of the materials in this scrapbook consist of calling cards. About half are formally printed cards, purchased from local printers; about half are handwritten, which are probably the signatures of the individuals named. Interspersed throughout are frequent wedding invitations, many to ceremonies held outside of Tennessee....

Scope and Content: Scrapbook compiled by Clura Haney containing items circa 1933 to circa 1947. Contents include numerous postcards from various locations, including: Wilmington, Del.; Oklahoma; New York City; Chicago; Atlantic City and other locations in New Jersey; St. Louis; Florida; and Nashville, Tenn. Some pre-printed photographs, sold to tourists, are also included. Frequent brief annotations often accompany the items in the scrapbook. There...

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...

Scope and content: Records of the Donelson Progressive Club, and its predecessor, the Men's Progressive Club (of Donelson) include membership rolls (1925-1927) and meeting minutes (1925-1939), along with a few cancelled checks issued by Donelson Bank and Trust Company (1934). Subjects detailed in the minutes include: support for various activities relating to Donelson High School and the Donelson grammar school; school athletics; fundraising and...