Advanced Search
Object Title: Providence Day School
Description: The school is located at Sardis and Rama Roads.
Location: Charlotte (N.C.)
Object Title: Albemarle Road Post Office
Location: 6501 Albemarle Rd., Charlotte (N.C.)
Date Taken: 11/10/2000
Object Title: Lawyers Road
Description: An historic house and a pharmacy are juxtaposed in this photograph.
Location: Charlotte (N.C.)
Object Title: Hunter Dairy
Location: 2200 Shopton Rd., Charlotte (N.C.)
Date Taken: July, 2000
Photographer: Jane Johnson
Object Title: Presbyterian Hospital
Location: 200 Hawthorne Ln., Charlotte (N.C.)
Date Taken: Fall, 2000
Photographer: Jane Johnson
Object Title: World War I Monument
Description: The monument is on Monument Avenue and Wilkinson Boulevard.
Location: Charlotte (N.C.)
The availability of ice was highly prized by families living in warm climates like Charlotte. It helped preserve food longer. Businesses that sold ice also sold coal during the winter months. Coal was the major fuel source in the early part of the 20th century.
Object Title: SouthEnd Brewery
Location: 2100 South Blvd., Charlotte (N.C.)
Date Taken: Fall, 2000
Photographer: Jane Johnson
The senior class of Charlotte High School of 1900 posed together. with Superintendent Alexander Graham. Young women wore lacy, white summer dresses with high collars.
“The Square” is the oldest intersection in the city. It’s at Trade & Tryon Streets. This is how it looks around 1900.
This is the Good Samaritan Hospital, which was located 405 West Hill Street. Built in 1888, it is the first hospital for blacks in North Carolina. Like St. Peter's, the women of St.
Watson Park, in Washington Heights, was the only park in Charlotte for the use of blacks in 1915. From: Colored Charlotte, courtesy of QUEENS COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Object Title: Sterling Elementary School
Location: 9701 China Grove Rd.Charlotte (N.C.)
Date Taken: September, 2000
On January 30, 1830, residents in the Sharon neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, met at the home of Martha Kirkpatrick to discuss the organization of church. The land for the church, located on what is now Sharon Road, was donated by Dr. J. W. Ross and the Kirkpatrick family.
Each building shown in the photos was built to hold 900 convalescing patients. They were part of 4 others built west of the already established hospital area. These two-story buildings contained sun porches and were connected by covered walkways. Each was estimated to cost $75,000. J. A.
U. S. President Woodrow Wilson (center, in top hat) appears in this Moon photograph with many Charlotteans, Gov. Manning of South Carolina, Gov. Craig of North Carolina and Charlotte Mayor Kirkpatrick for Meck Dec celebrations in 1916.
U.S. President “Ike” Eisenhower spoke to thousands when he visited Freedom Park in Charlotte for Meck Dec festivities in 1954.
Constance Morrison Colston and her daughter, Rebecca, 1907.
THELMA M. COLSTON.