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Robinson-Spangler North Carolina Room Image Collection

Arena Light Rail Tracks

 
The uptown arena opened as Charlotte Bobcats' Arena in 2005 and was renamed Time Warner Cable Arena in 2008. Physical Description: .jpg, 2592 X 1456 Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Mecklenburg Declaration Day

North Tryon Street was decorated with flags and banners in honor of Mecklenburg Declaration Day which was celebrated on May 20-22, 1902.  This photograph was labeled as man No. 905, published by the International Post Card Company in New York. The card stock was made in Germany.

Physical Description: color postcard

Publisher: International Post Card Company

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A&P at Parkwood Avenue

 
A&P Store located at 1401 Parkwood Ave, Charlotte NC 1929 in the Belmont neighborhood.

Physical Description: 4 x 3 inches Black and White

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

300 N. College

Located in the 400 block of North College Street, this series of buildings was a former automobile service station and paint store. Since the mid 1990s, it has been a restaurant and bar. This shows the original bricks getting a coat of paint.
Physical Description: .jpg, 2592 X 1456

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Charlotte Municipal Airport

Charlotte Municipal Airport

Physical Description: black and white postcard

Publisher: Observer Printing House

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A&P with Mr C. F. Biggers

 
Claude Felix Biggers (1880 - 1937) was the manager of the A&P Grocery Store on South Church Street where the Charlotte News building was later built. - N.W. corner of Church and Fourth Street.
 
 

Physical Description: 5 x 7, glossy, black and white

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Brickwork on Quartermaster Depot Building

 
This building opened as a Ford Motor Company plant in 1924. In World War II it served as a Quartermaster Depot, and as a missile plant and warehouse in the years since. Physical Description: jpg, 1135 X 815 Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

F. C. Abbott

 
Frederick Charles Abbott (1862-1959) was born in Connecticut and moved to Charlotte when he was in his thirties. He was the author of Fifty Years in Charlotte Real Estate, 1897-1947.

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Martha Auten 4th grade class photo

At the time of this photograph, Martha Auten lived on Duckworth Avenue with her parents Robert and Duval Auten in the home of her maternal grandfather, Henry Duckworth.
Names of children in photo are as follows:
Girls Seated-Virgil Erane, Rubie Lee Fodd, Martha Autem, Emma Remmie, Margie York, Elizabeth Teameter,
Girls Standing- Mable Nilson, Ethel Godfrey, Doloree Lingle, Idelle Davis, Addie House, Mildred Gardner, Gladis Frazier

Google Fiber

 
Google Fiber converted a century-old warehouse in the 200 block of E. 7th St. to be its local headquarters. 

Physical Description: .jpg, 680 X 381

Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library