24001.CD – Young boy on glider; John Tibbs, Jr; around Southwest Street, Charles Town, WV; 1940s.
24002.CD – Dorothy Young
24003.CD – left, Dorothy Young; right, Kenneth Young, siblings. Photo taken on the Vinton Farm in Charles Town, WV. Photo was taken in the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. Both are future graduates of Page Jackson High School. Taken on Vinton Farm, on Route 340 Charles Town, WV; Manning Smith’s orchard.
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24005.CD – James Alvin Tolbert, Percy Jackson; early 1940’s; taken on Harewood Avenue, Charles Town, WV; Eagle Avenue School in background.
24006.CD – Bobby Brown, James Alvin Tolbert, and William Clay; during summer vacation; early 1940’s; taken on Wysong Lane, Charles Town, WV. Three young men appear to be enjoying their summer vacation in the early 1940’s. From left to right are Robert S. Brown, James Alvin Tolbert and William Clay. The photo was taken on Wysong Lane in Charles Town, WV. The popular mode of transportation for young people in those days were bicycles, which these young men have. Often kids would ride more than one person on a bike, and while that was not the safest way to travel it was very common.
24007.CD – Mickey the dog, James Alvin Tolbert, and Leroy Hester; early 1940’s; taken at 834 Harewood Avenue, Charles Town, WV; summer; taken in the summer. Mickey the dog enjoys being with his humans. Sitting next to Mickey is James Alvin Tolbert and next to him is Leroy Hester. The photo was taken during summer vacation in the 1940’s at 834 Harewood Avenue in Charles Town, WV. James Alvin Tolbert would go on to graduate from Page Jackson High School in the class of 1950 after which he attended and graduated from college. Later he would be appointed to the WV Human Rights Commission Task Force. He also became the head of the Jefferson County NAACP and at the state level. In addition, he earned the position of Thirty-third Degree Prince Hall Masons.
24008.CD – Jesse Bradford.
24009.CD – Little girls on South Lawrence Street in Charles Town, WV. St. Phillips Church is in the background. The date is unknown. Two precious young ladies are pictured here on South Lawrence Street in Charles Town, WV. The date is unknown but it appears to be the late 1940’s. St. Philips Church is in the background. St. Philip’s is an Episcopal Church in Charles Town. It is also a proochial and industrial school which was begun in 1900 by Rev. Deaver and continued until the years of the depression. Cost of attendance ranged from 25 cents to 45 cents per week.
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24012.CD – Kenneth Young
24013.CD – Dorothy and Kenneth Young
24014.CD – Dorothy and Kenneth Young
24015.CD – James (Jim) Taylor and tennis students at Jefferson Memorial Park.
24016.CD – Jim Taylor and tennis students at Jefferson Memorial Park.
24017.CD – Jim Taylor and tennis students at Jefferson Memorial Park.
24018.CD – Sandra McIver, Lawson McIver, Leslie Ash and Johnetta Craig at Venning and Gertrude Brown Lawson’s home on E. North St. in the “Dogtown” section of Charles Town.
24020.CD – Taken in 1944 this photo shows Fonda Braxton on South West Street in Charles Town, WV.
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