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The Brown and Weddington Hardware Store was located on Trade Street between College and Tryon Streets. It firsts appears in the Charlotte City Directory in 1884.
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy4x5 negatives - 2 copies
Publisher: Unknown
This bronze marker is located at the Square to commemorate two significant events in Mecklenburg County's history. The inscription reads, `Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775 and the Battle of Charlotte September 16, 1780.
Cameron Morrison was Governor of North Carolina and resided in Charlotte after his term in office. His estate, Morrocroft, is now part of the South Park and Ballantyne communities.
Physical Description: black and white - glossy
Publisher: Unknown
This image of farm workers in Charlotte North Carolina was copied from a brochure entitled, `One of Mecklenburg's Good Roads.` These gentlemen are probably on their way to a ginnery to market to sell their cotton. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Charlotte native Major Hugh Ashcraft, Jr. served in the United States Army Air Corps and was later promoted to Colonel. He described his war experiences in his autobiography, Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x4 negative
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x4 negativecontact sheet
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x5 negative
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x4 negative5x7 print
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x4 negativecontact sheet
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x4 negativecontact sheet
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description:
A picture of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Building prior to its demolition in 1965. Located at the corner of Fourth and Tryon Street, the photograph was taken on April 1, 1965. This building was once the Buford Hotel.
Physical Description: 2x4 negativecontact sheet
Caption reads, `Cristabel's Room Vocal Studio.`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
Publisher:
Midway section of Elizabeth College looking toward the Conservatory after a snowstorm.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 35 mm negative
Photograph of a sketch of the Eleventh President of the United States, James K. Polk (1795-1849). Born in Pineville, North Carolina, he made his home in Tennessee.
Physical Description: 4x5 negatives
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
View of North Tryon Street from Trade Street features cars from the 1950s and the shops that existed at that time.
Physical Description: 8x1035 mm negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
United States Mint shortly before its demolition to make way for the new Post Office plans for expansion.
Physical Description: 35mm Negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Mayor F. Marion Redd and law partner, Leonidas L. Caudle in their law office in the Law Building that once stood on South Tryon Street.
Physical Description: 35 mm Negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Etching of Indpendence Square, the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets in 1909, from the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Souvenir Edition. The original is in the Carolina Room.
Physical Description: 2x4 negative