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Program for The Charlotte Community Concert Association performance of Gladys Swarthout, Mezzo-Soprano, Metropolitan Opera Association held in the City Auditorium (Armory), January 25th, 1945.

Program for Community Christmas Service at Armory Auditorium, December 22, 1940.

Inside page from Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941. This black and white photograph shows the audience from the stage.

Inside page from Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941, showing the founder and director, Guillermo S. de Roxlo.

Black and white photograph of Charlotte's Armory Auditorium located on Kings Drive near Central High School. The auditorium was built in 1929 and opened in time for the Annual Confederate Reunion held here in early June. From this time until 1954…

The Charlotte Observer announces the arrival of WRPL in 1965. Along with WGIV radio station WRPL became only the second station to target black audience during the sixites.

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.

A postcard which shows an aerial view of The Armory Auditorium and Memorial Stadium prior to 1930.

The Excelsior Club serves as a social and political gathering place for many of the city's black leaders in the late 1940s and throughout the decades to come.It was also served as a music venue for local artist.