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Home Made Rail Grinder

Home Made Rail Grinder being used in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Street Car to Lakewood Park

Lakewood Trolley took Charlotteans to the Lakewood Park.
See Charlotte Postcard Collection for more information regarding Lakewood Park Physical Description: negatives only Publisher:

Last Street Car

Notable city leaders who rode the last street car in Charlotte pose for a picture. From left to right: H.W. Harkey, Chairman Board of County Commissioners; Mayor Ben E. Douglas. Second Row: N.A. Cocke, Vice-President Duke Power. Third Row: Reverend Dr. Luther Little, Pastor of First Baptist Church; and E.C. Marshall, Vice-President of Duke Power. Photograph donated by Jean Ivey, wife of George Ivey, Jr., on 12 September 1974. Physical Description: Negative only Publisher:

Independence Building Under Construction

Street scene in uptown Charlotte showing road repair, construction of the Independence Building, and two streetcars, the Fourth Ward and the Highland Park (North Charlotte). Physical Description: Negative only Publisher:

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:

Last Street Car

A group of dignitaries whorode the last streetcar in Charlotte posing in front of a streetcar. Taken in March 1938.
Donated by Jean Ivey, wife of George Ivey, Jr. on 12 September 1974 Physical Description: 8 x 10 black and white Publisher:

The Square

View of the Square in uptown Charlotte Charlotte businesses and street near the Square including Garibaldi and Bruns Jewelers and the Independence  Building on pedistrians on the sidewalk make this one of the most vibrant images from this period. Physical Description: 8 x 10 black and white with 4 x 5 negative Publisher:

Street Car Motormen

Group portrait of three motormen with the Charlotte Streetcars.

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