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Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department Records
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1910, 1960
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, Nurses
Description: Records of the Mecklenburg County Health Department, which traces its origins back to the 1890s.This collection is comprised chiefly of annual reports and minutes. Also includes evaluation of public health programs in Charlotte by the American Pub...

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 72
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1935, 1960
Subjects--Topical: Public health, African American physicians, Physicians, Patients, Children

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 84
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1920, 1940
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Rural health, African American children, Nurses, Children

Title: Group at Tryon Street Methodist Episcopal Church South
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1915, 1930
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, African American nurses, Nurses, Physicians
Description: Included in photograph: Clara Ross, May McLaughlin, Dr. Hand (?), and Birdie Moore.

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 73
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1945, 1960
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, African American nurses, Nurses, African American children, Children

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 51
Creator: Moon, John W. (John William), 1871-1931
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1920, 1930
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, African American nurses, Nurses, Midwives
Description: Caption: "Inspection, Mid Wife Equipment. Moon. 28B21"

Title: Dr. M. B. Bethel (Health Director, 1959), Mrs. Blanche Samson, P.H.N., midwives, and unidentified little boy
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1950, 1960
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, African American nurses, Nurses, Midwives, Physicians

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 50
Creator: Moon, John W. (John William), 1871-1931
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1920, 1930
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, African American nurses, Nurses, Patients
Description: Caption: "Moon Photo 28B49"

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 39
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1915, 1925
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, Nurses, Mills and mill-work
Description: Caption: "Highland Park #1 sends the Nurse to see that this young employee has a fair start. Miss Alice Giver[?] PH Nurse."

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 43
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1915, 1925
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, Nurses, Mills and mill-work
Description: Caption: "Nurse going to Louise Mill to make report, and get calls from Superintendent. Louise Mill on Louise Ave."

Title: Mecklenburg County Health Department untitled image 110
Creator (Corporate): Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Date Created: 1935, 1945
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Public health nursing, Rural health, Nurses, Patients, Children

Title: Leslie E. Kooyman oral history interview, 2015 September 19
Creator: Kooyman, Leslie E.
Date Created: 2015-09-19
Subjects--Topical: Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Safe sex in AIDS prevention, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Gay relationships
Description: Leslie Kooyman, founder and two time executive director (1985-1990 and 1997-2004) of the Metrolina AIDS Project (MAP) the major AIDS service organization (ASO) in Mecklenburg County in operation between 1985 and 2009, discusses the history of the ...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 2, 2001 May 9
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 2001-05-09
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Household employees, Housing, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation, School integration
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her and her family's experiences living in Charlotte throughout the twentieth century, as well as her forty-five years as a nurse. Growing up in a segregated Charlotte, she describes life in the close-knit African American...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 1, 1993 June 25
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 1993-06-25
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health attitudes, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Teenage pregnancy, Children--Health and hygiene, Pollution--Health aspects, Voluntarism
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her life and career as a public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before going into public health, Mrs. Elder was a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital, the region's only hospital for African Americans. She disc...

Title: Cleo A. Yongue oral history interview, 2004 March 29
Creator: Yongue, Cleo A. (Cleo Alford), 1914-2015
Date Created: 2004-03-29
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, Public health nursing, Health education, African Americans--Health and hygiene, Race relations, African Americans--Housing, Urban renewal
Description: Cleo A. Yongue recounts her thirty-six year career as a nurse for the Mecklenburg County Health Department and her experiences in the Brooklyn community in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her work as an African ...