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Charlotte City Hall (1891)

This is Charlotte's first real City Hall. It was built in 1891, on the corner of Fifth and North Tryon Streets. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Raphael Tuck and Sons

Four Textile Mills

Hoskins Mill (1904) was located at 201 South Hoskins Road. Mecklenburg Cotton Mill (1904) was located at 3401 North Davidson Street in what is now know as the NODA neighborhood. Elizabeth Mill (1902) was on Dowd Road, and the Chadwick Mill (1901) was west of Biddleville. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: S H Kress

Soldiers writing home at Camp Greene

Soldiers writing home at the YMCA facility at Camp Greene. The latter was a World War I training camp in Charlotte, North Carolina Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Unknown

Charlotte Post Office and Mint

The United States Post Office and the United States Assay Office on Mint Street. The Assay Office is actually the Mint, now located on Randolph Road. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Observer Printing House

Company Mess Hall at Camp Greene

Company Mess Hall at Camp Greene with three soldiers, including one of the cooks. Physical Description: 3x5 black and white Publisher: A. M. Simon

Anna Morrison Jackson's House Number Two

The home of Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, widow of General Stonewall Jackson, was located at 306 West Trade Street. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Raphael Tuck and Sons

First Methodist Episcopal Church

The First Methodist Church formed in 1927 with the merger of Tryon Street Methodist and Trinity Methodist. This particular building was completed in 1927 at a cost between $8000,000 and $900,000. It houses a four-manual organ, tower chimes, a 1560 seat auditorium and a educational building. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: E. C. Kropp Company

Uptown Charlotte

Tryon Street in the 1950s with its many office buildings and shops. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: Dexter Press

Charlotte WWI Postcard

Charlotte postcard portraying a boy from the Netherlands expressing his sadness over the departure of the soldiers from Charlotte. Probably from World War I.

Physical Description: 3x5

Publisher: Dutch Kid Pennnat