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Scope and content: A scrapbook journal related to theatrical and operatic productions at the Theatre Vendome circa the 1887-88 season. Includes the handwritten playscript "Lights and Shadows" by Louis Davis, with a diagram of stage settings. The published clippings pertain to performances at the Theatre Vendome, the Masonic Theatre, and The Grand Opera House, all located in Nashville, Tennessee. Circa the 1887-88 season many prominent artists appeared...
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Scope and content: Materials include recordings, souvenir brochures, show posters, sheet music, books, and periodicals, tracing American popular music and musical theater from the mid-1800s into the twenty-first century. The sheet music collection of approximately 2,500 pieces includes the oldest items (dozens from the 1800s) and is strongest for the era of 1900-1930 popular songs, the heyday of Irving Berlin, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Jerome Kern,...
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Scope and content: Booklet produced by Benson Printing Company ca. 1922, and edited and compiled by Donald H. Grant and Munce Pigue, showing single-page cartoons of various Nashville, Tenn. businessmen. Images feature a photograph of the man's head, attached to a cartoon body. Numerous biographical details are illustrated on the same page, and often relate to hobbies, organizations, leisure activities, and other less-public aspects of the individual....
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Series I. Edward Webb consists of items dating from 1901 to 1913 which document the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), including some newsletters; a variety of business cards, advertising correspondence, and other ephemera especially relating to tailors, hardware and dry goods stores, and other merchants in downtown Nashville; a few items from 1905 about the Nashville Grays militia company, and a few programs relating to performing arts. Particularly...
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Scope and content: This small collection of theatre programs and newsletters concentrates on productions at the Orpheum Theatre of Nashville, Tenn. which starred Miss Billy Long and her Players. Her specialty was apparently stories with a southern or Western theme, though she also appeared in other types of theatricals. A few newsclippings, which apparently originated from a scrapbook, include photographs of her, as do a number of the programs or...
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Scope and content: The collection consists of approximately .75 cubic feet of clippings, compact discs, ephemera, general information, and publications relating to the Tennessee Players, Inc. and dating from 1986 to 2008. The majority of the collection consists of ephemera from various Tennessee Players productions, including programs, bookmarks, postcards, and posters. The most heavily represented production is Words of Albert Schweitzer and the...
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Scope and Content: This collection documents various advertising and publicity activities for movie theaters owned by the Crescent Amusement Company and managed by Russell Parham Sr. The date span of the material is 1929-1983 with the bulk being 1930-1950. The majority of the collection focuses on the Princess Theatre in Nashville, with a number of news clippings and photographs featuring advertising campaigns for specific films. In addition to the...
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Scope and content: A group of four different titles of Nashville community newspapers published by Norma Condra in the 1980s. These newspapers were distributed weekly for free, and had their origin as a shopper type of publication which primarily published advertisements, consisting of display ads for businesses, as well as classified ads from individuals who were selling cars, real estate, pets, offering services, and other types of advertising....
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Scope and content: A collection of six scrapbooks and one diary presumably compiled by Meriwether Liston Lewis, a Nashville Carnegie Library reference librarian and a published author, spanning the dates ca. 1901-ca. 1954. The materials document Nashville theatre, primarily about theatrical productions at the Vendome Theatre and the Grand Opera House, ca. 1901, United States history, international and national politics, the Paris Peace Conference...
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Arts and Entertainment - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
Community Life - Special Collections Topics
Local Business - Special Collections Topics
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Scope and content: Scattered issues of Take One newspaper, published in Nashville, Tenn. Holdings begin with vol. 1 issue 5 (Dec. 1977/Jan. 1978) when it was published on a monthly basis, to vol. 3 no. 13 (Aug. 13, 1979), by which time it had become a weekly.
The range of topics covered in each issue generally include: personality profiles and interviews; coverage of local television and radio stations; short fiction and essays; issues and topics...
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Scope and content: A variety of materials concerning film showings, film festivals, venues, and other items relating to film culture in Nashville, Tenn., predominantly from the early 21st century. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than ten items, and often only a single item.
Materials include: Belcourt Theatre showings and events; Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) and its predecessor, Sinking...
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Scope and content: Reminiscences of artist Meyer Wolfe as dictated to his nephew, Dr. Lawrence Wolfe. A three-page biographical sketch of Wolfe is followed by Wolfe's fifty-page reminiscences of Nashville during the first part of the 20th century. The reminiscences are divided into chapters which correspond primarily to different geographic areas of Nashville: Capitol Avenue; Public Square; College Street; Union Street; Cherry Street or Fourth...
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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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Abstract: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews.
Scope and content: Manuscripts, including some correspondence, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and related materials about the military career of Army Air Corps general and Nashville, Tenn. native, Frank Maxwell Andrews, most dating from...
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Abstract: Scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and audio recordings documenting the lives of African-Americans Thomas W. Southall, especially his career in the army, particularly his service in Germany in the 1950s, building radio sites; and his wife, Myrtle Forcey-Southall, who performed under the name, Myrtle Wilson, as a contortionist and dancer, and under her later stage name, Joyce Jackson, as a jazz singer. She performed in jazz clubs on...