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Douglas and Sing Ambulance

This ambulance was owned by Douglas & Sing Funeral Home. This photograh was taken in 1932. On the photograph, the driver seen here is identified as Karl Miller and was reportedly killed shortly after the picture was taken. However, Karl Miller is the donor of the photograph, there is no death certificate for him in 1932, and he is listed in the Charlotte City Directories well into the 1940s. Therefore some mistake must have been made. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Tryon Street (South)

Photograph captures how South Tryon Street looked in 1904 as one viewed it from the Square. (Intersection of Trade & Tryon Streets.) Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Independence Boulevard

Independence Boulevard looking east through Old Thompson Orphanage Farm past Sugar Creek toward Cecil Street (now Kings Drive.) Physical Description: 8x10 Publisher: Unknown

Hugh Ashcraft, Jr.

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

Trade Street (West)

A view of West Trade Street from the intersection of Trade & Tryon Streets. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Independence Boulevard

Independence Boulevard as it crossed the Thompson Orphanage Farm. Physical Description: 8x10 Publisher: Unknown

Senator John F. Kennedy

Senator John F. Kennedy campaigning for President of the United States in Charlotte in September 1960. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

North Tryon Street

This view of North Tryon Street features the City Hall on the left with the Carnegie Library (1903) just below on the left. The steeple of First Presbyterian Church is quite visible on the right. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Sixth Street in the 1950s

East Sixth Street looking east from Davidson Street intersection in the early 1950s. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown