Edward Hull Crump was born near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1874. He was raised by his mother, Mollie Nelms Crump, after his father, a cotton planter and former Confederate officer, died during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. When he was 19...
African Americans; airports; budget; commission government; Crump, E. H.; economy; education; floods; government; housing; law; mayors; New Deal; paving; politics; public service; race relations; roads; schools; streets; traffic; utilities;
Samuel Watkins Overton was born in Memphis in 1894 to a distinguished local family. He was the great-grandson of John Overton, a founder of Memphis, the grandson of Napoleon Hill, a wealthy businessman, and the son of S. Watkins Overton, who built...
African Americans; annexation; censorship; city budget; civic clubs; consolidation; engineers; fire department; government; hospitals; housing; mayors; parades; police department; politics; power plants; public service; race; segregation; slums;...
Frank T. Tobey was born in 1890 in Memphis and attended the Memphis Military Institute, Christian Brothers College and Captain Collier’s School. He pursued studies in engineering at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, South Dakota State...
A photo of Crump Boulevard with a sign advertising: "Adler Hotel -- Linden at Main -- 1.50 -- Fire Proof -- Private Baths -- Free Parking." Smokestack in the background. On back: Crump and Main - Crump was Iowa when photo was made.
Crump Boulevard; streets; trucks; automobiles; billboards; signs; advertising; gas stations; Lion Gas Station; J. R. Watkins Company;
A photo of Crump Boulevard with trucks and automobiles. In background are signs for J. R. Watkins Company, First National Bank, and Hotel Claridge. On left are two billboards for Sertapedic king length mattresses and an automobile advertisement. On...
business; Chandler, Walter; Crump, E. H.; economy; education; government; hospitals; housing; law; legislature; machine politics; mayors; municipal government; politics; public safety; public service; race; transportation;
Walter Chandler, who served as Mayor of Memphis during World War II, and then again briefly in 1955, was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1887. He moved to Memphis as a teenager and attended public schools. After earning a law degree from the...
The William Fowler collection was given to the Memphis and Shelby County Room by Fowler’s grandson, John W. Fowler, in 1985. William Bingham Fowler, born in 1886, served the city of Memphis as an engineer over a span of 69 years. During this...
Crump Boulevard; streets; automobiles; billboards; signs; advertising; J. R. Watkins Company; National Rose Company; 1960s;
A photo of Crump Boulevard with a Lion gas station (left) and Allied Van Lines (right) building also depicted. Billboards display advertisements for First National Bank and Hotel Claridge. In the foreground is a Kiwanis International street sign...
Crump Boulevard; streets; automobiles; billboards; signs; advertising; gas stations; Lion Gas Station; J. R. Watkins Company; National Rose Company; 1960s;
A photo of Crump Boulevard with three businesses in background: J. R. Watkins Company, the National Rose Company, and a Lion gas station. Three billboards display advertisement for Serta mattresses, Home Federal Savings, and the First National Bank.
A photo of Crump Boulevard with a billboard advertising the city of Memphis. Its reads, "Welcome to the Great City of Memphis -- Capital of the Mid-South."
