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Mecklenburg Image Collection

School Children

Physical Description: 3x5 (heavy silver nitrate visible)

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Tryon Street (South)

View of South Tryon Street looking North  from the 200 Block with the Piedmont Fire Insurance Building on the left. (Features three arches.)

Physical Description: 5 x 7

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Senator William A. Graham

 
 
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William A. Graham (1804-1875) served in the United States Senate from 1840-1843; Governor of North Carolina (1845-1849) and as Secretary of the Navy (1850-1852).
The illustration is from General Joseph Graham and his Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History (1904).

Physical Description: Copy of an original 1860 portrait.

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Long and Barringer Family Portrait

Helen C. Long, Annie Long Smith, Brandon Barringer, Margaret Long Barringer and Lily Webb Long. The photograph was taken on March 22, 1906.
Photographer information: The Electric Studio was operated by William Morse (1868-1932) and his then partner, W. Carson Davis.

Physical Description: 3x5 evidence of too much silver nitrate

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Joseph Graham

Joseph Graham (1759-1836)
The illustration is from General Joseph Graham and his Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History (1904).

Physical Description: Original painting was made in 1820

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School Children

Physical Description: 3x5 (heavy silver nitrate visible)

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Signers Monument

The Signer's Monument in front of the Fourth Courthouse was decorated in honor of Meckelnburg Declaration Day.

Physical Description: 8 x 10 black and white

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Red Circle Soldiers Club for Black Troops in Charlotte

 
 
Photo from an outside street view of the Red Circle Club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Red Circle Club was  a place for black soldiers to congregate and relax away from Camp Greene, a World War I Cantonment Camp near Charlotte. Photo features three African American men, two soldiers and a civilian, standing in front of the club.

Physical Description: 8 x 10, Black and White, glossy

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Sgt. Harbard Spain Fortenberry

 
Paul R. Wiley's greath grandfather's brother. Born in 1823. Died 1874. Shelby, NC 
 
 

Physical Description: 8 * 10 color reproduction of a black and white print

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