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An African American Album: Home and Family

Home and Family

The Kirkpatrick family on the porch of their farmhouse, c.1910

From The Samuel Kirkpatrick Family by Addie Pettice and Josephine Wade

CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY

 

"Our home was never a fine one from the sense of size or appointments, but it was a roomy, old-fashioned house with a big porch around it, and the home was filled with children and a good Mother's love."

Rose Leary Love

 

Alfred Dixon and Miss Poe of Charlotte

Alfred Dixon served as the first president of the choir at Seventh Street Presbyterian Church.

FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.

Right: Miss Poe of Charlotte, c. 1900.

FRANKLIN COLEY.

The Alexander Brothers

 

The Alexander Brothers, c. 1928. Left to right: Frederick Douglas, Louis Franklin, Zachariah; front: Kelly Miller.

MRS. KELLY M. ALEXANDER, SR.