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Carding and Spinning cotton

Workers on a farm carding and spinning cotton. Physical Description: 4x5 negativeOriginal from Tompkins Papers Collection Publisher: Unknown

Cotton coming to market

Farmers lined up to bring their cotton to Charlotte market. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Crowell's Garage

The College Street or Doc Crowel's Garage at 223 College Street. It is was the first Ford garage in Charlotte. Physical Description: 8x104x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

The trolley entrance gate to Myers Park was located at Fourth and Queens Road. The main gate is gone, but the side shelters remain. Designed by John Nolen and built by the Stephens Company of Winnsboro, South Carolina, the structure is made entirely of granite.

Cotton machinery on a plantation

Cotton ginnery and screw press on a plantation. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton machines

Steam-powered gin house. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton machines

Cotton gin house with the cotton screw/press on the right. A typical gin house like this produced three bales of cotton a day. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Cotton Workers

Cotton worker driving cotton to gin in a mule-drawn wagon. Physical Description: 4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

Independence Square

Etching of Indpendence Square, the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets in 1909, from the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Souvenir Edition. The original is in the Carolina Room. Physical Description: Original etching Publisher: