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Virlie and Margaret Neal

Virlie Neal Jr. and Margaret Neal Wallace. Located on 1st Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Physical Description: 5x 7 and Print from exhibit. Publisher: Virginia E. Keogh

Parade in Detroit, Michigan

Colonel Charles Young of Post Number 168 of the Drum and Bugle Corps in Detroit, Michigan. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Fats Waller (1903-1943)

Fats Waller at The Armory Auditorium sometime between 1940 and 1941. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Starette Social Club

Starette Social Club in McCrory Heights. Left to right: Margaret Wallace, Cora B. Johnson, Willie Mae Witherspoon, Carrie Belton, Emma Brown. Second row: Floyd Wallace, unknown, unknown, Abram Hare, unknown, unknown, and William Bates Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Colonel Charles Young

Colonel Charles Young of Post Number 168 of the Drum and Bugle Corps in Detroit.. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

Cab Calloway (1907-1994)

Cab Calloway performed at the Armory Auditorium in the early 1940s. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown

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