From WYPL Radio: "We are pleased to honor WYPL volunteer reader Rorie Trammel (shown bottom row, right) -- Rorie was a second year students at Memphis State University in the fall of 1980 and in the pledge class for Delta Sigma Theta...
community planning; corrections; government; land use; parks; prisons; public service; traffic; volunteerism; women;
Ruth Friedman Loewenberg grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended George Washington University. While in Memphis visiting her sister, she met William A. Loewenberg, and she described their meeting as “love at first sight.” They later married...
A photograph of Sojourner Truth, one of her relatives, and others in Memphis, presumably from the 1870s. Taken in front of the ladies entrance to 2 & 4 Mulberry Street
Photograph taken of Jana Cox (far left), Mrs. Lillian Scott (wife of Frank Scott; center) and Mrs. Erma ? (far right) with two ladies wearing tiaras and holding sprays of flowers.
An elevated picture of the traffic on Beale Street looking west. Businesses visible are: Morris Pinstein Shoes, Ladies Ready to Wear; A. Schwab; Wm Epstein, Morris, Lippman Loans; Commercial Loan Office.
American Legion; American Legion Auxiliary; history; Overton, Watkins;
Note on back: Memphis Mayor Watkins Overton -- Three American Legion members -- American Legion Auxiliary Ladies -- George Washington Celebration, February 22, 1932 -- Courthouse steps -- Memphis, TN
clubs; education; entertainment; Farrow family; neighborhoods; philanthropy; public service; recreation; social life; social organizations; study clubs; volunteerism; Whitehaven; women;
Whitehaven in the early 1900s was a small community with two churches, a school with some forty pupils, two stores and about twenty homes. Each afternoon a group of young ladies who called themselves the Whitehaven Walking Club took a walk...
