Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources
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Digital Collections

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner 1935-1955 [online]. [Washington, D.C.] : Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, 1997- [cited 5 July 2002]. Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html.
Features Rich's Department Store in Knoxville, American Enka Corp. in Morristown, and the Tennessee homes of Andrew Johnson and James K. Polk.

Brentwood Homes [online]. Brentwood, Tenn.: Brentwood Library, n.d. [cited 15 January 2004]. Available from: http://www.brentwood-tn.org/library/Brentwood%20homesE.htm.

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record [online]. [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, 1998- . Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html.
"The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies." Many of the images of buildings in Tennessee are presently not digitized. See the image and record for the First Presbyterian Church, Nashville for a Tennessee example.

Charlotte Gailor's Historic Homes Collection [online]. [Sewanee]: Jessie Ball duPont Library, University of the South, 1998. Available from: http://library.sewanee.edu/dept/archives/Pictures/HistoricHomes/01HomesIndex.html.
Many of the descriptions of homes in the Sewanee area are accompanied by photographs.


Guides to Archival Collections

Nashville Local History Indexes: Nashville Photographs at the Metro Archives, 1940-1976 [online]. Nashville: Nashville Public Library, n.d. [cited 12 June 2002]. Available from: http://wendy.library.nashville.org:82/.
"The Photograph File indexes 9,118 photo negatives in the Metropolitan Photographer Collection from 1950-1987. These negatives are stored at the Metro Archives and depict Nashville buildings, streets, people and events. The index will describe the photo and give the date, if known, and the dimensions of the photograph."


Microform Collections

County Court Houses of the United States. Essex, N.Y. : Dunlap Society, c1981. 180 microfiches.

Historic American Buildings Survey. Cambridge, Eng. : Chadwyck-Healey ; Teaneck, N.J. : Somerset House, 1980. 1,400 microfiches.

Research Centers & Government Agencies



Special Projects

Slave Housing Survey [MTSU]



Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources