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ESTEN B. MASON
COLLECTION, 1914-1920s
UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 179
   
   
Contents: Collection Information
Scope and Content Note
Container List
   
   
COLLECTION INFORMATION
   
Size:
10 items (photographs).
   
Locales: Charlotte, N.C.
   
Bulk Dates: 1914-1929.
   
Languages: English.
   
Summary: Photographs of scenes of the Myers Park neighborhood and downtown Charlotte used in Legacy: The Myers Park Story (1986) by Mary Norton Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett.
   
Index Terms: Charlotte (N.C.)--Photographs.
  Hanchett, Thomas W. Legacy: The Myers Park Story.
  Kratt, Mary Norton. Legacy: The Myers Park Story.
  Mason, Esten B.
  Myers Park (Charlotte, N.C.)--Photographs.
   
Sources: Gift of Esten B. Mason, 1987.
   
Access: Unrestricted.
   
Copyright: Retained by donor. Copying not permitted without authorization of Mrs. Esten B. Mason.
   
Citation: Esten B. Mason Collection, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Library.
   
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Related Collections: Mary Kratt Papers (Mss 113).
  Myers Park Homeowners Association Records (Mss 184).
   
   
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
   
This collection is comprised exclusively of photographs used in the book, Legacy: The Myers Park Story (Charlotte: Myers Park Foundation, 1986), written by Mary Norton Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett. The Esten B. Mason Collection is organized into a single photographic series. [NOTE: The container list below denotes the corresponding page from Legacy in brackets.]
   
   
CONTAINER LIST
   
Print
Number(s)
Description [page number]
   
P179/1 Unidentified family in horsedrawn carriage (early 1900s) [55]
P179/2 1550 Queens Road (n.d.) [81]
P179/3 Queens Road Gateway at the intersection of Hawthorne Lane and Fourth Street (ca.1914) [44]
P179/4 Queens Road looking toward Providence Road (ca. 1918) [45]
P179/5 Stephens Company workmen alongside Queens Road trolley tracks (n.d.) [42]
P179/6 Queens Road under construction, downtown Charlotte in the distance (n.d.) [43]
P179/7 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Day parade in downtown Charlotte (May 20, 1916) [77]
P179/8 South Tryon Street (ca. 1915) [32]
P179/9 NCNB Building on South Tryon Street (n.d.) [115]
P179/10 Commercial National Bank on South Tryon Street (n.d.) [114]
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