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Charlotte Postcard Collection

Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn at 3815 North Tryon Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Curteichcolor

Colonial Apartments

The Colonial Apartments were located at 512-616 North Tryon Street. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: CT Photoshop

Dilworth Road

Looking north down Dilworth Road with the Addison Apartments in the distance. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Dixie News Company

Realty Building

The Realty Building was located at the corner of Trade and Tryon and was built in 1907. It was renamed the Independence Building in 1920 and was torn down in 1970. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Observer Printing House

Realty Building (View from South Tryon Street)

The Realty Building was located at the corner of Trade and Tryon and was built in 1907. It was renamed the Independence Building in 1920 and was torn down in 1970.A trolley can be seen going down the street. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: S H Kress

Courthouse and Lawyer's Building

Picture of the Courthouse on East Trade Street and the Lawyer's Building which was adjacent.

Physical Description: 3 x5

Publisher: S H Kress

F & R Coal and Oil Company Advertisment

Postcard advertisment for F. R. Coal and Oil Company. It was located at 624 South Cedar Street in Charlotte.
 

Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard

Publisher:

Banner Card for Charlotte

Banner card for Charlotte - these types of postcards were created with the name of the city or town inside the banner. They usually featured Dutch children speaking in fake accents. Cards date between 1912 and 1916.

Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard

Publisher: Dutch Kid Pennant

Tryon Street (South)

View of uptown Charlotte looking down South Tryon Street in the 1950s. Brownlee Jewelwers is on the left right next door to the Liberty Life Building.

Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard

Publisher: Dexter Press

Tryon Street (South)

Street car makes its way past the Square down South Tryon Street in a postcard postmarked 1911. On the lower left of the card is the Independence/Realty Building. Past Trade Street, the businesses that can be identfied are Blake Drugstore operated by John S. Blake, the Southern Real Estate and Trust Company, and Garibaldi Bruns and Dixon Jewelwers at 10-12 South Tryon. (Fourth building from Blake Drugstore.)

Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard

Publisher: S H Kress