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Title: Anne Batten oral history interview, 1993 July 26
Creator: Batten, Anne, 1914-2006
Date Created: 1993-07-26
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, High school teaching, History--Study and teaching, History--Societies, etc., School integration
Description: Anne Batten discusses growing up in the Dilworth community in Charlotte, North Carolina, her career as a teacher, and the role she played in historic preservation in Mecklenburg County. Subjects include teaching English, French, and history in rur...

Title: Camp Greene American Red Cross
Creator: Moon, John W. (John William), 1871-1931
Date Created: 1918-06-05
Subjects--Topical: Military camps, Nurses, Soldiers
Description: Photograph inscription: "Red Cross Canteen hut and builders, Charlotte, N.C."

Title: Camp Greene Base Hospital image 1
Creator: Moon, John W. (John William), 1871-1931
Date Created: 1917-11-08
Subjects--Topical: Military hospitals, American, Military camps, Soldiers
Description: Photograph inscription: "Base Hospital barracks and men. Detachment medical department, Camp Greene, N.C."

Title: Camp Greene, plan 4
Date Created: 1917-11-01
Subjects--Topical: Maps, Military training camps, Cities and towns
Description: Description on map: "Copy from the National Archives. Record group 92."

Title: Carol Wohlford Mesrobian and Caroline Mesrobian Hickman oral history interview 1, 2013 May 10
Creator: Mesrobian, Carol Wohlford, 1926-2018
Date Created: 2013-05-10
Subjects--Topical: Duke University, Catholic University of America. School of Architecture and Planning, Architecture, Architectural firms--Ownership, International style (Architecture), Architectural design, Architecture, Turkish, Air pilots, Military, Armenians
Description: In this interview, Carol Wohlford Mesrobian and Caroline Mesrobian Hickman, the widow and daughter of Charlotte architect Ralfe Mesrobian, share Mesrobian family history beginning with Ralfe's parents Mihran and Zabelle Mesrobian. They recoun...

Title: Carol Wohlford Mesrobian and Caroline Mesrobian Hickman oral history interview 2, 2013 August 20
Creator: Mesrobian, Carol Wohlford, 1926-2018
Date Created: 2013-08-20
Subjects--Topical: Eastover Elementary School (Charlotte, N.C.), Gold mines and mining, Architecture, Architectural firms--Ownership, Moravians, Women--Education, Community life, African Americans--Employment
Description: In this second of two interviews Carol Wohlford Mesrobian and her daughter Caroline Mesrobian Hickman continue to share about their husband and father Ralfe Mesrobian's work as an architect in Charlotte, his hobbies, and his collection of arc...

Title: Merwin Edsel Foard oral history interview 1, 2014 February 4
Creator: Foard, Merwin E. (Merwin Edsel), Sr., 1931-2019
Date Created: 2014-02-04
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, College students, Emigration and immigration, Colonists, African Americans--Segregation, Providence and government of God
Description: In this first of two interviews, Merwin Edsel Foard, Charlotte native and graduate of Charlotte College, reflects on his life history and his conviction of divine providence throughout his life. He recounts the Foard family's deep rooted conn...

Title: Minnie Sutker oral history interview, 1990 April 22
Creator: Sutker, Minnie S. (Minnie Silverstein), 1905-1995
Date Created: 1990-04-22
Subjects--Topical: Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish way of life, Passover--Customs and practices, Religious tolerance, Zionism, Antisemitism
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Minnie Silverstein Sutker discusses her experiences as a member of the Jewish community in the city. She talks about her father's earliest days in Charlotte in the late nineteenth century and discusses her parents'...

Title: The skirmisher : fourth U.S. engineers. Souvenir edition (Apr. 1, 1918)
Creator: Desimone, E.G.
Date Created: 1918-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Soldiers' writings, American, Military camps, Soldiers