Thanks Helen and Jenny!
FROM THE HELEN BUNTING COLLECTION:
DEDICATION OF THE CARVER LIBRARY IN THE RIVERVIEW APARTMENTS, 1951.
The inscription from Helen reads as follows:
"Opening of the George Washington Carver Branch Library Picture (Metafile)Title: Opening of the George Washington Carver Branch Library Description: Opening of the Carver Branch library in the Riverview section of Kingsport. When this branch opened, the Riverview neighborhood was still segregated. Some of the people in the picture are E.W. Palmer (near the right pillar), sisters Anita and Marie Briscoe, Annette Burnette, Linda Cox, Reverend William H. Stokely, Willard C. and Ressie H. Long."
Photographer: Unknown
Date of Image: 1951
Date Added: 03/02/2007
Subject: George Washington Carver Branch Library-Tennessee-Kingsport.
People, groups-Tennessee-Kingsport.
African Americans-Tennessee-Kingsport.
Riverview-Tennessee-Kingsport.
Public buildings-Tennessee-Kingsport.
Palmer, E.W. (Elbridge W.), 1886-1953.
Kinchloe, Marie Briscoe.
Briscoe, Anita.
WILLARD C. LONG
The inscription from Helen reads as follows:
Willard C. Long with Picture of George Washington Carver Picture (Metafile)
Title: Willard C. Long with Picture of George Washington Carver
Description: This image of Willard C. Long was taken shortly after the George Washington Carver Branch Library opened in Kingsport, Tennessee.
The branch library opened on 11 June 1951 in Kingsport's segregated Riverview Community.
Photographer: unknown
Date of Image: circa 1951
Date Added: 07/11/2007
Subject: Long, Willard C.
George Washington Carver Branch Library-Tennessee-Kingsport.
African Americans-Tennessee-Kingsport.
Riverview-Tennessee-Kingsport.
Collection: Photographs from Riverview Community, 1950s.
Provenance: Helen K. Bunting donated this image during 2007.
Repository: Archives of the City of Kingsport
FROM THE VIRGINIA HANKINS COLLECTION:
EMOGENE CARTWRIGHT HANKINS.
Jenny says: "This one is of my mother, Emogene Cartwright Hankins, standing in front of Apt 53 and 54. These are some of the apartments built especially for the larger families."
MABEL HOARD MONTGOMERY AND LORAINE CARTWRIGHT LOLLAR.
Jenny says: "They are standing at the end of Booker Street. If you look over to the right it looks like that might be the future location of the Library and the new apartments.
LORAINE CARTWRIGHT LOLLAR, ADA GILLENWATER AND EMOGENE CARTWRIGHT HANKINS.
Jenny says: "This picture is of Loraine Cartwright Lollar, Ada Gillenwater and Emogene Cartwright Hankins on their graduation day in 1942."
