Postcards
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Postcards
Description
Many of these are from a collection of postcards of Charlotte that were collected by Mary Manning Boyer. The original collection is in the J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections archive at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Collection Items
Charlotte NC, South Tryon Street
This picture postcard shows the scene looking north on South Tryon Street from Third Street. To the left of the photograph can be seen the Piedmont Building and next door the taller Trust Building which housed the Academy of Music. Beyond this can…
Block showing YMCA and Trust Building, Charlotte NC
Picture postcard described as "Block showing Y.M.C.A. and Trust Building, Charlotte N.C." The scene shows the west side of South Tryon Street between Third Street and Fourth Street looking south. Urban buildings give way at the end of the block to…
Tremont Post Mailers
Three postcards that Tremont Music Hall intended to inform recipients about upcoming shows and to invite them to parties at the venue.
A few of the fine buildings of Charlotte N.C.
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…
The Armory Auditorium
A postcard which shows an aerial view of The Armory Auditorium and Memorial Stadium prior to 1930.
The New Auditorium, Charlotte NC
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.
Realty Building, Charlotte NC, Granite Row
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…
Elizabeth College and Conservatory of Music, Charlotte, NC
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. …
Conservatory of Music, Charlotte, NC
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…
Charlotte NC, Presbyterian College for Women
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…