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Carter Hall, Biddle University, c. 1904. From: Art Work of Charlotte, North Carolina,PLCMC.
A cooking school sponsored by the Works Progress Administration at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 1935. Mrs. Florence Pethel was the instructor.
NANCY PETHEL.
The Hotel Alexander on McDowell Street was the only hotel serving blacks in Charlotte during the 1940s. Visiting celebrities stayed there and it served as a center for the social life of the community.
PLCMC.
Zoel Sylvester Hargrave, c. 1921.
DEE DEE MURPHY.
Right: Hattie Ruddisell, 1938.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
The fifth grade class, Alexander Street School, May 1930. The school was located on the corner of Alexander and 12th streets.
LAURA SPEARS MALONE
Alexander Street School Rhythm Band, 1935
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN
The Tonettes at Isabella Wyche School.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
West Charlotte High School Senior Prom, 1950.
JAMES G. CROSBY.
The Junior Band, West Charlotte High School, 1943.
ANITA BALDWIN.
"Chums," Second Ward High School, about 1940.
ROBENIA D. McCULLOUGH.
Many elegant homes lined South Brevard Street before the urban renewal projects of the 1970s including the J. T. Williams home in the foreground.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Mary Schenck, John Winfield Schenck and Polina Schenck, c. 1920.
THELMA M. COLSTON
The Alexander Brothers, c. 1928. Left to right: Frederick Douglas, Louis Franklin, Zachariah; front: Kelly Miller.
MRS. KELLY M. ALEXANDER, SR.
The Kirkpatrick family on the porch of their farmhouse, c. 1910.
From: The Samuel Kirkpatrick Family by Addie Pettice and Josephine Wade
Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church was located on the corner of Alexander and 11th streets. This photograph was made in 1921 when the Reverence K. D. Davis served as pastor of the church.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
W. C. Smith (1854 - 1937), founder, publisher and editor of Charlotte's first black secular newspaper, the Charlotte Messenger.
Business people of Brooklyn in front of the Queen City Drug Store on East Second Street, c. 1910.
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION.