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Last Street Car

Dignitaries with a streetcar and one of the buses that would replace streetcars on the last day the streetcars went through Charlotte in May 1938.
Duke Power operated both the street car and the bus system at that time. Physical Description: Negative only Publisher:

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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Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

The Charlotte Symphony played its first concert March 20, 1931. Today it is a fine professional symprony orchestra, probably the oldest symphony orchestra in the South in continuous operation.

Physical Description: 8 x 10 inches, black and white, glossy

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South Tryon Street 200 Block

From left to right the buildings are The Piedmont Fire Insurance Building, the Trust Building, the Charlotte Consolidated Construction, the first Y.M.C.A. and the Carson Building. Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard Publisher: Stone and Barringer