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Robinson-Spangler North Carolina Room Image Collection

School Children

Physical Description: 3x5 (heavy silver nitrate visible)

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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 (North)

North Tryon Street as it appeard in 1905.
 

Physical Description: 6 x 3 3/4 original mounted print

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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

James K. Polk Mounument

Monument marking the birthplace of President James K. Polk.  It was erected by the local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
 

Physical Description: 5 x 8 3/4 original mounted print

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School Children

Physical Description: 3x5 (heavy silver nitrate visible)

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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

First Presbyterian Church and Manse

First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1832. This building opened in 1895.

Physical Description: 3 inch circular mounted print

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