George Mahan, Jr., distinguished and revered architect, was born in Memphis and spent his entire life in the city. He began his career at the age of fifteen, when he joined the architectural firm of Shaw and Pfeil as a student draftsman. ...
advertising; buildings; Business Men's Club; Loeb's Laundry;
A brochure advertising Memphis, compliments of Loeb's Laundry. Published between 1903 and 1910, the brochure sought to encourage people (and businesses) to move to Memphis "to show a population of a quarter of a million in 1910."...
Front Street; streets; pedestrians; horses; carriages; buildings; Cossitt Library; U.S. Post Office; 1900s;
A postcard of the Cossit Library (foreground) and the Post Office (background) from 1906. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages are waiting outside the buildings on Front Street.
Front Street; Monroe Avenue; streets; lumber; hardwood; horses; buildings; signs; businesses; Otto Schwill & Company; Orgill Brothers & Company; F. G. Barton Cotton Company;
A photograph of a lumberyard on Front Street and Monroe Avenue. Of the businesses residing in the buildings, only the signs for Otto Schwill & Co., Orgill Brothers & Co., and F. G. Barton Cotton Co. are discernable.
Front Street; streets; automobiles; businesses; buildings; apartments; pedestrians; Otto Schwill & Company; DeSoto Hardware Company; R. B. Buchanan Seed;
A photo of Front Street with automobiles and pedestrians. Apartment buildings and businesses line the right side of the street: R. B. Buchanan Seed (near right), DeSoto Hardware Company (right), and Otto Schwill & Company, also a seed house.
East Street; Beale Street; streets; buildings; automobiles; advertising; signs; Southern White Sales Company; Snack Shack Cafe; 1950s;
A photo of East Street. Southern White Sales Company building on the right and a used trucks lot on the left. Snack Shack Cafe further down on the left side of the street. Buildings in the background. On back: East St. & Beale Ave.
A view of the backs of buildings on Beale Street looking down a roadway with vacant lots on both sides. The NBC Building, the Peabody Hotel and the 1st Tennessee Building can be seen in the background. Note on the back reads: Duplicate print from...
architecture; Central Gardens; historic preservation; midtown; neighborhoods; social life;
The Central Gardens Historic District is one of the iconic midtown neighborhoods of Memphis, Tennessee. Spanning 83 blocks, nearly 511 acres, and encompassing approximately 1,540 structures, the neighborhood has maintained its present-day...
buildings; Campbell, Frank M.; commercial properties; Edward LeMaster Company; real estate; streets;
In 1980, Frank M. Campbell donated approximately 1,100 photographs and negatives of Memphis buildings and street scenes to the Memphis and Shelby County Room. With few exceptions, the images date from the early to mid-1950s. -- Frank M. Campbell...
Over many years the Memphis and Shelby County Room has collected print and photographic materials on the history of Memphis, Shelby County and the surrounding area. This collection of Harper’s Weekly Newspaper and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated...
