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Looking north down Tryon Street, once can see the City Hall in the distance.
Physical Description: negatives only
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View of South Tryon Street looking North from the 200 Block with the Piedmont Fire Insurance Building on the left. (Features three arches.)
Physical Description: 5 x 7
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Meeting of Board of Directors of AME Zion Publishing House, on the porch of the building at Myers and E. 8th Streets. Front row, left to right: Dr. Gales of Livingstone College, Bishop A. J. Warner, Bishop George Clinton, Dr. Atkins of what was then Winston-Salem State College.
Queen Charlotte Sophia Mecklenburg-Strelitz Hanover, wife of King George III. Original portrait hangs in the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. The city of Charlotte and the county of Mecklenburg was named in her honor.
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Image is of two different subjects.The first image on top is of the funeral procession for Fire Chief J. Harvey Wallace, who was killed in an explosion on July 1, 1914.Below are members of the Charlotte Gun Club from the 1880s. Seated on the first row, from left to right: George A.
This bust of John Charles McNeill is in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at the Main Branch of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. McNeill was a columnist for the Charlotte Observer during the 19th century.
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Couple in canoe. Caption reads, `Some more canoe-bial bliss.) Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
Physical Description: Original in scrapbook35 mm. Negative
Hezekiah Alexander House was built in 1774. This rock house is located on Shamrock Drive. It is the oldest house in Mecklenburg County.Today it is part of the Charlotte History Museum. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Second Ward High School was the first black high school in Charlotte. It later became Carver College. Physical Description: 8x10, glossy Publisher: Unknown
Employees of Belk Brothers in front of the entrance at 119 East Trade Street. Belk Brothers opened the Charlotte store on September 25, 1895. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy, 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown.
This plaque honors Charlotte leaders during the Revolutionary War, including Abraham Alexander, John McKnitt Alexander and Ephraim Brevard. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
The Central Hotel Annex was located at South Tryon Street.
Physical Description: 5x7 print35 mm negative
Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Dormitory Room in Elizabeth College.Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
Physical Description: Original in scrapbook
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Officer Frank E. Ferguson (1886-1940) of the Charlotte Police Department looks south from the first block of South Tryon Street. Physical Description: 8x10 Publisher: Unknown
Alice Kibler, the first black student to represent the United States in the International Brotherhood Week Program. This event was held at First United Methodist Church in Charlotte. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown
Dormitory Room in Elizabeth College. Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
Physical Description: Original in scrapbook35 mm negative
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Born in Raleigh on December 24, 1863 , Thomas Skinner Franklin was the son of an Englishman, and his mother was from Virginia. He came to Charlotte in 1880, and married Luella Lidell in 1891. Franklin owned his own insurance company and was active in local politics.
This is an interior view of South Park Mall when a fountain was located in the center of the mall. The design has since changed.
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Image Year: 1976
Physical Description: 8x11 glossy
Category: Hornet's Nest
Format: Black and White
Architectural Drawing of the First National Bank Building.
ID Number: H_2000_01_261_31
Image Year: 1928
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Category: Hornet's Nest
Format: Black and White
Image Negative: 1
Print: 1
Donor: Unknown
The Stratford Hotel was located at 227 North Tryon Street. It had thirty-seven rooms and was completed in 1899. It was originally called the Leland Hotel. In the 1915-1916 Charlotte City Directory, it was known as the Tryon Hotel.