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Partnership 2020 is the Nashville region’s public/private economic development initiative responsible for the creation of jobs and capital investments through business expansions and relocations, talent development through education advancement and postsecondary alignment with workforce needs, and enhanced livability and quality of life through efforts such as transit infrastructure, affordability and health improvement.
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Scope and content: Various types of advertising correspondence, including letters, postcards, testimonials, advertising samples and artwork, and similar materials, 1891-1915, apparently compiled by Nashville Banner business manager, Edgar M. Foster. Collection also includes two items relating to the Nashville Banner excursion train to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, in San Francisco, Calif. June 25-July 17, 1915.
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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman David Swett, Jr., conducted 17 July 2006 by John Egerton as part of a cooperative effort between the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project and the Southern Foodways Alliance. During the interview, Swett discusses such topics as his grandfather, Walter Swett's, establishment of the family restaurant, Swett's; his grandfather's encounters with...
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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: Oral history interview with Nashville businessman Thomas Charles (T.C.) Jones, conducted 10 April 2007 by James T. Havron as part of the Library Interviews series of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project. During the 1 hour interview, Jones discusses such topics as his childhood and education growing up in Nashville; his family; working for General Shoe Corporation; businesses and restaurants...
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Scope and content: A variety of items, mostly relating to shopping malls located in Nashville or surrounding communities. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Items are often mall brochures, showing the general floor plan and location and types of stores within the mall. Particularly significant are mall brochures from 2009 for Opry Mills Mall, which was inundated by the 2010 flood; and a 1958 booklet promoting...