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North Tryon Street Showing YMCA and the Opera House

Taken between 1902 and 1909 , this photograph was taken at South Tryon Street and Third Street. On the left is the Trust Building and the first YMCA which was torn down in 1909. The building on right with the wide, front, gable roof and three Italianate style windows is the Opera House.

ID Number: H_2000_01_263_33

Image Year: 1905

Physical Description: 8x10 glossy

Category: Hornet's Nest

Format: Black and White

Image Negative: 1

Print: 1

Donor: Cliff Hoover

Copyright: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Publisher: Unknown

Independence Boulevard

Independence Boulevard as it crossed the Thompson Orphanage Farm. Physical Description: 8x10 Publisher: Unknown

Senator John F. Kennedy

Senator John F. Kennedy campaigning for President of the United States in Charlotte in September 1960. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

North Tryon Street

This view of North Tryon Street features the City Hall on the left with the Carnegie Library (1903) just below on the left. The steeple of First Presbyterian Church is quite visible on the right. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Sixth Street in the 1950s

East Sixth Street looking east from Davidson Street intersection in the early 1950s. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Tryon Street (North)

A view of North Tryon Street with local businesses and City Hall visible.A trolley can be seen on the right hand side of the photograph. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

Senator John F. Kennedy

Senator John F. Kennedy in Charlotte on January 17, 1960 during his first Presidential campaign. In the car with the Senator is David Clark on the left and Terry Sanford on the right. Physical Description: 5x7 glossy4x5 negative Publisher: Unknown

City Buses

Duke Power operated the bus company in Charlotte during the 1930s. The buses parked in front of the trolley car barns on South Boulevard. Drivers are from left to right: Paul Harris, R. H. McLendon, Harry Culp and Dowd McCrorie. The photograph was taken in February of 1936. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown

East Trade Street

Looking East on Trade Street from the middle of the first block, one can see the R.M. White Ind. Co., a wholesale and retail grocer at 39 East Trade Street. The individual in the street is unknown. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown