Gem Restaurant
The Gem Restaurant was located in the Central Hotel at 7 South Tryon Street. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy. Not a good image. Publisher: Unknown
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Ovens Auditorium
Ovens Auditorium and the first Charlotte Coliseum. Photograph taken on September 18, 1976.
ID Number: H_2000_01_265_35
Image Year: 1976
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Category: Hornet's Nest
Format: Black and White
Image Negative: 1
Print: 1
Donor: Margaret Phillips
Copyright: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Publisher: Unknown
Photographer: Margaret Phillips
Tryon Street
Looking north from South Tryon and First Streets in the mid-1930s. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Vance Park
Vance Park was located on West Fourth and Mint Streets, behind the United States Post Office. This image was copied from Art Work in Charlotte, p. 49. The final 1905 Temperance Meetings in Charlotte, took place at this gazebo. Physical Description: 5x7 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Lake Norman
Lake Norman is North Carolina's largest man-made lake. It is thirty-five miles long and eight miles wide. Lake Norman is eighteen miles from Charlotte.
ID Number: H_2000_01_266_36.jpg
Image Year: 1976
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Category: Hornet's Nest
Format: Black and White
Image Negative: 1
Print: 1
Donor: Margaret Phillips
Copyright: Publisher:
UnknownPhotographer:
Margaret Phillips
South Boulevard
Looking south on South Boulevard, past 1400 block of East Bland Street. The Duke Power bus garage is on the right. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Professional Building
The Professional Building housed a number of offices for doctors and lawyers, hence its name. Completed in 1924, the building was located at North Tryon and Seventh Street. Louis H. Asbury (1877-1975) designed the building and J.A. Jones Company was the contractor. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (aerial view)
This aerial view of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte was taken on September 18, 1976.
ID Number: H_2000_01_323_24
Image Year: 1960
Physical Description: 8x10 glossy
Category: Hornet's Nest
Format: Black and White
Image Negative: 1
Print: 1
Donor: Unknown
Copyright: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Publisher: Unknown
Photographer: Margaret Phillips
Underpass at South Boulevard
This is the entrance to the tunnel or underpass that once connected South Boulevard and East Morehead Street. It enabled students from Alexander Graham Jr. High School to cross the street safely. The building in the background is the Dowd Flats. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
Sanitary Laundry Truck
Rowland Stewart Ferguson (1889-1966) stands by his laundry truck at 210 North Cecil Street. (The latter is now known as Kings Drive.) Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown