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Robinson-Spangler North Carolina Room Image Collection

Wallace Children

Left to right: Floyd Wallace Sr., Virginia, Ronald, Evelyn, Floyd Jr., and Margaret. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Gethsemane Baptist Church

Gethsemane Baptist Church family picture. Located on Winnifred Street in Third Ward. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Billy Eckstine at the Charlotte Armory Auditorium

William Billy Clarence Eckstine (1914 – 1993) was a popular American singer of ballads and a bandleader during the Swing Era. He is seen here performing at the Armory Auditorium in Charlotte duirng the early 1940s. Eckstine was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Bethlehem Center

A kindergarten picture at Bethlehem Center, located on Caldwell Street.The picture was made at Edward's Portrait Studio on 2207 Booker Avenue. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Ink Spots

The Ink Spots at The Armory Auditorium along with a Charlotte man (4th from the left). He is unidentified and he sang with the Dixie Hummingbirds. The Ink Spots are best remembered for the song, If I Didn't Care. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Four Gospel Singers

Four Gospel Singers. For more information, write to 344 Cherry St, Charlotte, North Carolina. Physical Description: Publisher: Virginia E. Keogh

Cochran Family Portrait

Family Portrait: Mr. and Mrs. Jeff F. Cochran, Harriette (baby), and Thelma (standing). Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Andy Kirk (1898 – 1992)

Andrew Andy Dewey Kirk (1898 – 1992) was a jazz saxaphonist and tuba player who is  best known as a bandleader of the Twelve Clouds of Joy, popular during the Swing Era. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Margaret Neal Wallace

Margaret Neal's, later Wallace' graduation photo. She was eighteen years old at the time and attended Second Ward High School. Physical Description: 5x7 Publisher: Unknown