Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats, both national and local. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, with an emphasis on education. (Note: Item is composed of two separate documents, placed back to...
Campaign material supporting Roosevelt's Democrats. Outlines improvements the Democrats have brought to the black community, via the Works Progress Administration, the National Youth Administration, housing changes, the Civilian Conservation...
"Edward Armour Horne, a former disc jockey for radio station WLOK and a jazz promoter who brought famous artists to Memphis in the 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 69. R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has charge. -- Horne was a disc...
"...About 550 people spent a lazy afternoon yesterday walking to the various stages and enjoying some fine jazz music from both out-of-town and local musicians. -- A busboy could be seen in the service area at No. 1 Beale Street dancing up a...
Cole, Natalie; Gladys Knight and the Pips; Green, Al; jazz; Kool Jazz Festival; Mighty Clouds of Joy; music; Roy Ayers Ubiquity; Sylvers, the; Temptations, the;
“Al Green, Natalie Cole, the Sylvers, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Temptations and Roy Ayers Ubiquity were announced yesterday as the lineup for the Kool Jazz Festival July 8-9 in the Mid-South Coliseum. -- The...
"Growing up in Massachusetts, playing basketball, field hockey and softball brought A. Paige Whittle her share of contact with orthopedic medical specialists. -- There was a broken finger and a broken collar bone plus an assortment of sprains...
"City of Memphis Hospital officials today said they will meet Thursday with a group of Filipino nurses who want to transfer to hospitals in other parts of the country. -- During the past year, 101 Filipino nurses have been brought to the...
"The first of 52 Filipino nurses being brought to Memphis to help ease a critical shortage at City of Memphis Hospitals will arrive here March 22, CMH officials said today. -- Twenty-one male and female nurses will be in the first group,...
Ethel Taylor Maxwell was born in Memphis in 1915 and enjoyed a long and prominent career as a musical singing star and later as a teacher of music. She credited her parents with encouraging her early interest in music and supporting her artistic...
art education; arts; clubs; historic preservation; museums; neighborhoods; public service; women;
Florence Makin McIntyre is remembered as the First Lady of Memphis Art. She was born in Memphis in 1878 and grew up in her family home, the Pillow-McIntyre House, at 707 Adams Avenue in the historic Victorian Village neighborhood. As a child she...
bridges; casualties of war; family; fashion; government; law; mayors; military; parks; public service; railroads; recreation; social life; women; World War I;
Harry H. Litty was born in 1862 in Toledo, Ohio. After attending North Kentucky College, he began his business career with the Toledo, Cincinnati, and St. Louis Railroad. His work with the railroad brought him to Memphis, where he was an engineer...
This small collection of letters was given to the Memphis and Shelby County Room in 1985 by Dexter Muller. The letters in the collection provide a great deal of information about the life of the Berlin family and the loss they sustained upon the...
Gideon Johnson Pillow was born in 1806 near Columbia, Tennessee. He attended the University of Nashville and went on to practice law in Columbia with his good friend James K. Polk. Pillow and his wife Mary Martin Pillow had 14 children. -- Pillow...
Henry A. Montgomery was born in Fermanagh County, Ireland in 1829. At fifteen he began an apprenticeship with Thos. Karnahan & Sons, a timber, slate and iron dealership. He immigrated to Canada in the spring of 1848 and moved later that year...
The Sultana left Memphis on April 27, 1865 carrying three times the number of passengers for which it was designed. Tragedy struck later that evening when the boilers ruptured, causing the steamer to explode. Many were killed immediately from the...
clubs; neighborhoods; politics; religion; social life; transportation; writing;
From the finding aid: "This is a preliminary list of miscellaneous scrapbooks brought together to form an artificial group in order to make the individual items accessible for researchers. These volumes offer a glimpse into the lives of...
African Americans; education; public service; schools; teachers;
James Ashton Hayes, distinguished Memphis educator, was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1865. Hayes received his A.B. degree in 1911 from Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, where he was an active participant in scholastic and athletic groups. --...
