The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee, 1909 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee, 1909, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: The Parthenon, Nashville, Tenn.
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The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee, 1909
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The Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, was still standing in 1909 as a leftover from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897, when the city built a full-scale replica of the Athens temple to mark the state's hundredth year. Nashville then depended on publishing houses, insurance companies, and schools such as Vanderbilt University and Fisk University, and streetcar lines carried residents out to the park's lawns and lakes on summer weekends. The temple had been built as a temporary exposition structure, and its plaster facade was already weathering, a problem local leaders would not fully address until well after this photograph was taken. Statewide prohibition was also a major political question in Tennessee that year, and it shaped debates across the city's churches, businesses, and newspapers.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Tennessee |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,335 × 1,378 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The Parthenon, Nashville, Tenn. |
| Reference | TN 1909 The Parthenon, Nashville |
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