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...
Saul Brown was born in 1910 in New York to Russian immigrants. As a young adult, Brown attended Tech High School in Memphis and graduated from the Memphis Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in Fine Art. Brown served in the Air Force during World...
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...
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."...
architecture; churches; Collins Chapel CME Church; James Lee House; Magevney House; Mallory-Neely House; neighborhoods; Massey House; residences; St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral; Victorian Village; Woodruff-Fontaine House;
Donated in 2008 by filmmaker and photographer Willy Bearden, the Victorian Village Photographic Archive is a collection of over 1500 images documenting the houses and churches in and around Victorian Village, including the architectural details,...
A composite of two images - children reading inside a library and the exterior of the Vance Avenue Branch. Text: ENJOYING FREE LIBRARY BOOKS -- PRESENT NEGRO PUBLIC LIBRARY -- The Vance Avenue Library, opened in the summer of 1939, serves the...
hospitals; John Gaston Hospital; St. Joseph Hospital; Methodist Hospital; Veterans Hospital; medicine;
"Hospitals. Memphis, Tenn. -- John Gaston Hospital -- St. Joseph’s Hospital -- Methodist Hospital -- U. S. Veterans Hospital" -- Four images (color) of aforementioned hospitals, listed clockwise starting from top left.
"Jazz. -- The four-letter word for musical improvisation conjures up images of finger-snapping beatniks, long-haired guitarists, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Al Jarreau, Al Hirt. -- To local club owners, the word conjures up something else:...
Two images accompany an article on women in medical professions. -- Top right: "Highly specialized is the nurse anaesthetist. Here is Miss Lucille Archer at the Baptist." -- Lower left: "The south has been able to find no...
Four images from the day of the dedication of Handy Park. Caption: Scenes reproduced by courtesy of the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn., from the dedication of Handy Park on Beale Avenue, March 29, 1931. Upper left - the crowd gathered in the...
