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Lakewood Park

People walking along Lakewood Park. The Pavilion can be seen in the foreground. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Carolina Card Company

Tryon Street

Intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets (Square) around the turn of the century. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Leighton & Valentine Company

Trade & Tryon Streets

The intersection of Trade & Tryon Streets (the Square) as it looked in the 1950s. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: General Sales Service

Queen Charlotte, Consort of King George III of England

This portrait of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by Allan Ramsay (1713-1784) was given to the Mint Museum of Art in 1936 by Mrs. Westray Battle. The painting captures Charlotte in her coronation robe. Born in 1774, she was the consort to King George III of England. Two of her fifteen children would rule as Kings of England: George IV and William IV Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Graham Photo Supply

South Tryon Business District

Black and white street scene of South Street featuring the Piedmont Building, the Trust Building, the 4Cs Building, the Y.M.C.A., and the Carson Building.. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Unknown

Farm Workers

This image of farm workers in Charlotte North Carolina was copied from a brochure entitled, `One of Mecklenburg's Good Roads.` These gentlemen are probably on their way to a ginnery to market to sell their cotton. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Stuart Warren Cramer (1868-1934)

Textile Industrialist, Stuart Warren Cramer was born in 1868 in Thomasville, North Carolina. He designed a number of textile mills and villages in the Charlotte region, including the area now known as the North Davidson Historic District. Upon his death in 1934, he served on the Board of Directors of the Cramerton Mills. Physical Description: 5x7 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Dr. Furman L. Brodie

Dr. Furman L. Brodie was the pastor of Brooklyn Presbyterian Church. Physical Description: 5x7 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Colonel William R. Myers

Colonel William R. Myers donated the land for Biddle University around 1867. This school is known today as Johnson C. Smith University Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown