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Good Samaritan Hospital from the `Nightingale` 1959 yearbook, page 34. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown
Good Samaritan Hospital nurses' home from the `Nightingale`, 1959 yearbook, page 39. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown
Second Ward High School football team in 1939. They played against Dudley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. Julia Walls Wilson was the Homecoming Queen.
Looking east past the intersection of Morehead Street and South Boulevard. The end of one wing of the D.H. Hill School can be seen at the corner. The rest of it extended southward on South Boulevard. The Alexander Graham Jr.
The Law Building was once located at 730 East Trade Street. The building at 700 East Trade served as the Couunty Courthouse from 1927 to 1977.
Physical Description: 8x10, glossy - 4x5 negative
Publisher: Unknown
The 1959 Main Branch of the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County replaced the 1903 Carnegie Library on the same site.
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Opening night at the Excelsior Club. Physical Description: Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Unidentified Children
Physical Description: 35 mm negative
Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Vance Park was located on West Fourth and Mint Streets, behind the United States Post Office. This image was copied from Art Work in Charlotte, p. 49. The final 1905 Temperance Meetings in Charlotte, took place at this gazebo. Physical Description: 5x7 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Luther Little before he became the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Scene of Elmwood Cemetery
Physical Description: 4x5 negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Dr. Roy S. Wynn was the first black citizen to serve on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown
Dr. E. French Tyson practiced medicine in Charlotte from 1913 to 1950. His home was located at 907 South Brevard Street. Physical Description: 5x7 Publisher: Unknown
The Ink Spots at The Armory Auditorium along with a Charlotte man (4th from the left). He is unidentified and he sang with the Dixie Hummingbirds. The Ink Spots are best remembered for the song, If I Didn't Care. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown
Minnie Alma Blake was coach of the West Charlotte High School basketball team. She is pictured with the girls’ All-Star basketball team. Players, from left to right: Ruth Gartrell, Mattie Eaves, Mary Alice Alexander, unknown, unknown, unknown, Jessie Mae Young.
Thad Lincoln Tate (1865-1951) was one of Charlotte's earliest and most prominent African American businessmen. He came to Charlotte as a barber. In 1882, he opened his own shop, an enterprise that he would operate for 61 years.
The Tate family lived in this elegant home at 504 East 7th Street. Thaddeus Tate opened a barber shop in 1882 which prospered for over sixty years.