Program for the Nashville City School Teachers Association variety show entitled "School Daze," presented as part of the National Education Association (NEA) centennial.
Photo taken from the audience level of a performance at the Ryman by Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Audience, stage, backstage, electronics, and advertisements are all in view.
Photograph of Roy Acuff performing at the Ryman with the Smoky Mountain Boys. Several different kinds of guitars are seen, including an acoustic, electric, and slide guitar. The microphone stands are printed "WSM Grand Ole Opry" and part of the...
Auditoriums; Concert halls; Historic buildings; Tabernacles (Buildings); Architectural elements
Exterior view of the Ryman Auditorium at 5th Avenue North. Pieces of the building's history are clearly visible in the signs and plaques that are affixed to the structure. In view are signs proclaiming "Grand Ole Opry House," "WSM Grand Ole...
Interior of the Ryman Auditorium shows stage and seats from right rear. Various signs around the auditorium read "No Smoking," "No Standing," "Grand Ole Opry."
Ryman Auditorium interior, from Hardeman's Tabernacle Sermons, Volume 1, by N. B. Hardeman, image facing page 15. The full congregation can be seen in the balcony and the floor with several individuals on the railed stage in the center. The...
Street railroads; Cable railroads; Streets; Grocery stores; Houses; Broadsides
Streetcar on Buchanan Street; also shows J.A. Maxey Grocery. Rear of streetcar has broadsides for "Baseball Today" and "Hear Carmack on Temperance, Ryman Auditorium." Two children in hats stand outside the grocery. Several houses can be seen in...
A copy of a benediction written by Charles Dickens. The text describes this benediction as Tom Ryman's favorite and states that it appeared on all letterheads relating to the Union Gospel Tabernacle.
The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Small house at left later (1905) became the home of Congregation Sherith Israel, also known as the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. The photograph appears to have been taken in the winter as the trees are...
Interior image of the Union Gospel Tabernacle including the audience and the Theodore Thomas Orchestra performing at a benefit staged by the Ladies' Hermitage Association to fund the preservation of The Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson.