Title:
Commercial Building
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Gastonia is located in almost the exact center of the Piedmont region. The air tempered by sunshine is pleasant and invigorating. In the City proper and its outskirts are 60 Textile Plants and the number of products manufactured here runs into the hundreds. Gastonia has modern school buildings, beautiful city parks, progressive civic clubs and many fine churches. It is located on U.S. Highway No. 29 and is only 2 hours driving distance to the beautiful Western North Carolina Mountains. Historic Kings Mountain Battlefield is only 20 miles West of the City.
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Title:
Annual Watermelon Feast
GAstonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
by Lion's Club at N.C. Orthopedic Hospital. the only state-owned and state maintained institution of its kind in the south, having a capacity of 160 beds with provision for crippled children of both races
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Title:
Ashley High School
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Chrome unused
Description:
Built in 1924, it has fifty-nine rooms, a three-manual pipe organ built into the original construction and a library with 10,000 volumes. with its gothic type architecture, it is an imposing building
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Title:
Gaston County Courthouse
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Chrome unused
Description:
Gaston, once a hunting ground for Cherokee and Catawba Indians, was incorporated in 1846 and has grown from a pioneer agriculture settlement to a leading manufacturing center of more than 140,000
Dexter Press, Inc
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Title:
Aerial view of Gastonia, N.C
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Chrome unused
Description:
Aerial view of Gastonia, N.C., County Seat of Gaston County. Incorporated in 1886, it has grown to a population of over 55,000. Gastonia is well diversified in textiles and manufacturing
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Title:
United State Post Office
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Gastonia is located almost the exact center of the Piedmont region. The air tempered by sunshine is pleasant and invigorating. In the City proper and its outskirts are 60 textile plants and the number of products manufactured here runs into the hundreds. Gastonia has modern school buildings, beautiful city parks, progress civic clubs and many fine churches. It is located on U.S. Highway No. 29 and is only 2 hours driving distance to the beautiful Western North Carolina Mountains. Historic Kings Mountain Battlefield is only 20 miles west of the city
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Title:
Aerial View
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Gastonia is located in almost the exact center of the Piedmont region. The air tempered by sunshine is pleasant and invigorating. In the City proper and its outskirts are 60 Textile Plants and the number of products manufactured here runs into the hundreds. Gastonia has modern school buildings, beautiful city parks, progressive civic clubs and many fine churches. It is located on U.S. Highway No. 29 and is only 2 hours driving distance to the beautiful Western North Carolina Mountains. Historic Kings Mountain Battlefield is only 20 miles west of the City
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Title:
Annual Watermelon Feast by Lion's Club at NC Orthopedic Hospital
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital, Gastonia, NC, the only state-owned and state-maintained institution of its kind in the South, having a capacity of 160 beds with provision for crippled children of both races
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Title:
Firestone Cotton Mills
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Firestone Cotton Mills Inc., a subsidiary of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio, located at Gastonia, one of the largest plants in the world under one roof for the manufacture of tire fabric
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Title:
United States Post Office
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Gastonia is located in almost the exact center of the Piedmont region. The air tempered by sunshine is pleasant and invigorating. In the City proper and its outskirts are 60 Textile Plants and the number of products manufactured here runs into the hundreds. Gastonia has modern school buildings, beautiful city parks, progressive civic clubs, and many fine churches. It is located on U.S. highway No. 29 and is only 2 hours driving distance to the beautiful Western North Carolina Mountains. Historic Kings Mountain Battlefield is only 20 miles West of the City
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Title:
Senior High School, Gastonia, N. C
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
The Senior High School building was constructed in 1922 and accommodates about 1100 students. The auditorium is equipped with a pipe organ, the first high school auditorium in the State of North Carolina to be equipped with such an instrument. Immediately adjoining the high school grounds is the athletic stadium and field house
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Title:
Senior High School
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Series 83228
The Senior High School building was constructed in 1922 and accommodates about 1100 Students. The auditorium is equipped with a pipe organ, the first high school auditorium in the State of North Carolina to be equipped with such an instrument. Immediately adjoining the high school grounds is the athletic stadium and field house.
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Title:
River Bend Steam Plant No. 1
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Chrome unused
Description:
KG-1 – River Bend Steam Plant No. 1 on the Catawba River, 15 miles from Gastonia. The Duke Power Company which serves the Piedmont Carolinas with electric energy, derives its electric power from approximately 40 steam and hydrogenerating plants located within this 20000 square mile piedmont area.
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Title:
Senior High School
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
The Senior High School building was constructed in 1922 and accommodates about 1100 students. The auditorium is equipped with a pipe organ, the first high school auditorium in the State of North Carolina to be equipped with such an instrument. Immediately adjoining the high school grounds is the athletic stadium and field house.
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Title:
Gastonia
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Gastonia, N. C., the combed yarn manufacturing center of the world. Typical village street of the local cotton textile plant showing homes rented to employees for 25c per room per week, lights and water free. Write Gastonia Chamber of Commerce for further industrial information. I have enjoyed a visit to North Carolina's exhibit at the New York World's Fair. You must be sure to see it. For information about North Carolina write Governor's Hospitality Committee, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Title:
United States Post Office
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
Gastonia is located in almost the exact center of the Piedmont region. The air tempered by sunshine is pleasant and invigorating. In the City proper and its outskirts are 60 Textile Plants and the number of products manufactured here runs into the hundreds. Gastonia has modern school buildings, beautiful city parks, progressive civic clubs and many fine churches. It is located on U. S. Highway No. 29 and is only 2 hours driving distance to the beautiful Western North Carolina Mountains. Historic Kings Mountain Battlefield is only 20 miles West of the City
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Title:
Main Avenue
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Divided Back unused
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Title:
Community Center, Gastonia, N.C
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
G-2 Community Center, Gastonia, N.C. Women's Club Building Memorial hall Public Library Community Center of Gastonia. 61573 This view contains pictures of Gastonia Public Library, Memorial Hall for use of veterans of all wars, and Women's Club building, located on Second Avenue. Pub. Byt the Asheville Post Card Co. Asheville, N.C
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Title:
First Baptist Church
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen PM 1944
Description:
First Baptist Church of Gastonia, organized in 1876. Present building erected in 1923. This is one of 31 churches in Gastonia.
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Title:
Senior High School
Gastonia North Carolina (NC), Linen unused
Description:
The Senior High School building was constructed in 1922 and accommodates about 1100 students. The auditorium is equipped with a pipe organ, the first high school auditorium in the State of North Carolina to be equipped with such an instrument. Immediately adjoining the high school grounds is the athletic stadium and field house.
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