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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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Scope and content: Small looseleaf scrapbook compiled by Ann May Hardeman Fort (Mrs. Combs Fort) containing newsclippings from 1937-1940, pasted onto plain white sheets of paper. The vast majority of clippings relate to the social life of young women of Nashville from prominent families, including balls, parties, luncheons, and particularly, weddings. Clippings include numerous photographs of young women in wedding or formal social attire, occasionally...
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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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Abstract: Photographs, news clippings, letters, and a scrapbook documenting the personal, professional, and social lives of Elizabeth and Bill Weaver of Nashville, Tennessee. The dates of the materials are 1858-1996 with the bulk being from 1940-1975.
Scope and content: Series I. Family (1858-1970, 1996) - contains photos, clippings and letters concerning the Weaver family and the Craig family of Nashville, Tennessee. This series comprises approximately...
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Scope and content: Approximately 1200 newspaper clippings of marriage or engagement notices, and obituaries, mounted on sheets of notebook paper and laminated. Occasionally an article may be illustrated with a photograph. Many clippings do not have years indicated, however, those that do, run from 1915 to 1938. There does not appear to be any particular order to the way the clippings are arranged. Page numbers were placed on the pages, probably by...
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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....
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Abstract: Thirty interviews conducted with Nashville elders, recalling in autobiographical form their major life events and experiences. Most are audio recordings although a few may exist only as full or partial transcripts. Interviews were conducted as part of the statewide initiative known as Homecoming '86, a celebration of local communities and their history. Planning documents for the oral history project are also part of the collection.
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Scope and content: An oral history interview with Angelo Anderson and his daughter Angela Anderson Jones, conducted on the 21 Oct. 1986 by John Egerton as part of the Homecoming '86 oral history project. Topics discussed during the interview include Anderson's birth, family, and early life in Greece and his immigration to the United States in 1901; his business activities in Nashville, including a shoeshine business and Candyland (7th Avenue and...
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Scope and content: One bound volume, entitled: "The Bride's Book: A Souvenir of the Wedding," illustrated by F.M. Spiegle and others, and published by Frederick A. Stokes Company of New York, copyrighted 1900. The book has forms on each page, to be completed by the bride. Only a portion of the book has been filled out. It documents the marriage of Marguerite Winstead and Harold Millard Greene who wed on Sept. 26, 1906 in Nashville, Tenn. Information...
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Scope and content: Twelve letters between members of the Turnbow and Dabbs families, 1872-1900, predominantly written from locations in Middle Tennessee. Most of the letters are written from A. J. (Adaline Jane) Turnbow in Farmers Valley, Perry County, Tenn. and Calvin and Julia Turnbow of Pleasantville, Hickman County, Tenn. to Margaret and Nathaniel Dabbs. Margaret Dabbs was the first child of Calvin Turnbow and his first wife, Adaline Jane. A few...
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Scope and content: Series I. Autobiography of Norvelle Dismukes, written in 1982, provides a detailed account of her life, her family, her education, and her career. Generally written in chronological order, she has a novelist's eye for detail, and provides rich emotional and physical descriptions about the people in her life and her surroundings. She writes about her family origins in Wilcox County, Alabama; her adoption by relatives in Nashville,...
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Abstract: Photocopy of autobiographies of Annie E. (Fletcher) Clendening (pp.1-64), and her husband, W.A. (William A.) Clendening (pp. 66-89), written in 1903.
Scope and content: Annie E. (Fletcher) Clendening's memoir provides a perspective on women's activities and social life in 1860s Virginia, describes courtship and wedding customs, and provides a short glimpse of a woman's religious faith. Annie begins with brief family background, and tells...