Title	Captain Thomas G. Ryman
Historical Note	Thomas Green Ryman, a riverboat captain and Nashville entrepreneur, built the Union Gospel Tabernacle between 1888 and 1892 at a cost of about $100,000. After Ryman's death in 1904, the Rev. Sam Jones proposed that the building's name; be changed to honor him. Afterwards, the building was known as the Ryman Auditorium. Captain Ryman was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee, on Christmas Day 1904.
Date	undated
Collection Name	Ryman Family Papers
Accession Number	81-15
Subject - LCSH	Ryman, Thomas Green, -- 1841-1904 Nashville (Tenn.) -- Biography Ryman, Thomas Green -- Portraits
Subject - TGM	Portrait photographs
Owning Institution	Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#	35618
Digital type	Still Image
Digital format	Image/jp2
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