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Potograph of Presbyterian College for Women which was located on College Street at Phifer Avenue between Ninth and Tenth Streets. This site was originally occupied by Charlotte Female Institute which was erected in 1857. This school was closed in…

View of the Gerard Conservatory of Music at Elizabeth College in Charlotte, NC. People from all over the Charlotte area came to musical events and plays at the college conservatory where the women trained in art, voice, piano, violin and other…

Postcard showing different aspects of Elizabeth College, including the Gerard Conservatory of Music. Views include, the front view of the main building, the Gerard Conservatory of Music, the entrance to campus, and a campus view of a treed avenue. …

View of Tryon Street, Charlotte NC, showing the Realty Building on the Square and "Granite Row" in the foreground. This was a row of five three story buildings built in 1850-1851 in the first block of South Tryon and formed one of Charlotte's early…

This is a black and white photograph of Charlotte's new City Auditorium built in 1908 at College and East Fifth Street. The caption on the photograph says that the seating capacity was 4,500.

Postcard showing interior of Charlotte city Auditorium located at College Street and East Fifth Street. The postcard indicated that the seating capacity is 4,500. The auditorium seems to be decorated for a special event with American flags and…

This is a detail from a photograph of the east block of South Tryon Street between Fourth and Third Streets showing the Opera House. The Opera House was a wide brick front gable building with businesses downstairs and an auditorium upstairs. The…

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941, cover and eight interior pages. The program lists members of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society Inc. There is a full page photograph or painting of the founder and director of…

This image, from a promotional section of Charlotte News 1954, shows the architect's model of Charlotte Colliseum and Oven's Auditorium.

Color postcard of Charlotte NC in 1907 showing the residential-commercial mix of the Third Ward District. To the right of the postcard can be seen the YMCA with its distinctive turrets and brown granite stone. Next door is the office of Charlotte's…