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Elizabeth College Student With Her Beau

Elizabeth College student and young man in horse and carriage. Caption reads, `Holly and his lady love.`Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.

Physical Description: Original in scrapbook35mm negative

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Elizabeth College Students

Four women, presumably students, an a man pose on the steps of a building on the campus of Elizabeth College. Caption reads: `A Georgia Cracker.`Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915. The main building is now used by Presbyterian Hospital.

Physical Description: Original in scrapbook 35mm Negative

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Elizabeth College dormitory room

Dormitory room at Elizabeth College, caption reads, `The Firm of Ike and Ike.`Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.

Physical Description: Original in scrapbook35 mm negative

Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

Elmwood Cemetery

Scene of Elmwood Cemetery

Physical Description: 4x5 negative

Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

Charlotte Police Detectives

Charlotte Police detectives upon receiving awards from J. Edgar Hoover for their part in solving a bank robbery by the Touhy gang on November 15, 1933. The photograph was taken in front of the courthouse. From left to right, unknown, Frank N. Littlejohn, Harry M. Joyner and unknown. Littlejohn later beame the Chief of Police.

Physical Description: 8x10 35 mm negative

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Aerial view of Charlotte

Southern view of Charlotte taken in April 11, 1916 from Dr. James Gibbon's Office in the Independence Building. The latter was located on North Tryon Street.

Physical Description: 4x5 & 35 mm negative

Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

Dedication of the D.H. Hill School Marker

Photograph of the Dedication of a stone marker for the D. H. Hill School which stood at South Boulevard and Morehead Street.To the right of the marker is D. H. Hill IV, Carolina Platt and D. H. Hill, III. To the left of the marker is a child (unknown), North Governor Angus McLean and Cornelia Fore, Charlotte's leading historian of her day. Her papers are housed in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room.To the far left, the bearded soldier is possibly named Mason, grandfather of Lillian Crosland. The granite boulder was manufactured by Piedmont Marble Company, and has since been lost.

Charlotte neighborhood

View of a dirt-covered, tree-lined street with an unhitched buggy somewhere in Charlotte.

Physical Description: 35 mm. negative

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Charlotte Streetcar

Charlotte Streetcar coming down the tracks.

Physical Description: 35 mm Negative

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Charlotte Street Scene

View of Charlotte street scene featuring horse-drawn wagons and two women walking along the sidewalk under a parsol.

Physical Description: 35mm negative

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library