International Pentecostal Holiness Church
12th General Conference, 1953
Held in Memphis, TN

Theme: "Loyalty to Christ and the Church"

Conference voted to make Memphis the official headquarters of the church and authorized General Board to purchase property. The idea was abandoned in 1954 due to flaws in the title of the property they were negotiating for and officials moved back to their home states.

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(03-03-2010 11:03 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(03-02-2010 03:55 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  [quote='Cletus' pid='5203081' dateline='1267205830']

what are these pics of?

thx.

Go Tigers!!!
Drew

Years ago when I rode down there we would take rookies in the old hospital at like 3 am. They still have the Morg downstairs . It looks like something from the SAW movies .


Ballard & Ballard Flour Building is down on the river bluffs located near where Landry's Seafood used to be.

The 2nd building Circa 1875 is part of the Naval Hospital located at The National Ornamental Metal Museum which overlooks the Mississippi River near the old bridge.

http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/tn/m...spital.htm

Cool find about the old Metal Museum Hospital.

"Panorama of the Mississippi Valley and Its Fortifications" - Memphis area section of Circa 1863 map

Twenty-first Annual Convention, Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 17th to 21st, 1906

Idewild Passenger Ferry Steamboat / Steamer, Memphis, TN - Circa 1920

The Idlewild operated as a passenger ferry between Memphis, Tennessee and West Memphis, Arkansas. She also hauled cargo such as cotton, lumber and grain. Originally named the Idlewild, later Belle of Louisville was built by James Rees & Sons Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the West Memphis Packet Company in 1914 and was first put into service on the Allegheny River. Constructed with an all-steel superstructure and asphalt main deck, the steamboat is said to hold the all-time record in her class for miles traveled, years in operation, and number of places visited.

Memphis Photo Supply Co, Memphis Tennessee ink stamped verso

Pickin Cotton in Memphis TN - Circa 1926



Second Street, at the intersection of Mill Street, just a few blocks north of St. Joseph Hospital - Circa 1912



King Cotton - Circa 1907



Flooding along Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn. - Circa 1927

"A typical flood scene, snapped at Memphis, Tenn. Many houses have been carried away by flood waters. Note the improvised fence, made of old bedsprings, to keep stock from running wild."

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St. Peter's Catholic Church, Memphis, TN - Circa 1905



YMCA Building, Memphis, TN - Circa 1905



Confederate Park, Memphis TN - Circa 1905



Court Square, Memphis TN - Circa 1906



First Methodist Church, 204 North Second Street Memphis, TN - Circa 1906



The Levee from the Bluff, Memphis TN - Circa 1906

Memphis Municipal Airport, 1962, photographed from the then-new control tower

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A long table set for a Christmas dinner awaits the arrival of the German POWs who are patients of Ward 2B of Kennedy General Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, in 1945. The table is set with traditional fruit centerpieces, plates, silverware, and candles. Stockings, Christmas cards, a Christmas tree, a banner proclaiming "Merry Christmas", a paraplegic patient dressed as Santa Claus, and hospital beds can be seen in the background.




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Court Square, Downtown Memphis TN - Circa 1963

Spur from Municipal interchange under Harahan and Frisco bridges to Municipal River & Rail Terminal - Circa 1925.



Federal Barge line terminal at the end of the track shown above passing under the Frisco bridge.

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(12-19-2012 12:45 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

Memphis Municipal Airport, 1962, photographed from the then-new control tower

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I remember the airport when it looked exactly like that. Our parents would take us out to watch planes land on the weekend. That was the entertainment.

(12-21-2012 12:22 PM)KRB Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 12:45 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

Memphis Municipal Airport, 1962, photographed from the then-new control tower

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I remember the airport when it looked exactly like that. Our parents would take us out to watch planes land on the weekend. That was the entertainment.

KRB, I flew to St Louis from that terminal as a kid before the new one was built. Our little league team won a contest to watch the Cardinals play the Braves at old Sportsman's Park. Southeast Airlines DC-3.

Memphis Street Railway
Memphis Transit Authority
Forward
A Pullman Bus on Mainin 1944 Courtesy the Illinois Railway Museum

1862 map of Memphis and Vicinity - by order of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

MEMPHIS AND VICINITY

Surveyed and drawn by order of
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
by Leut's Pitzman & Frick
Topographical Engineers

More info on topographer Julius Pitzman:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Pitzman
- home.usmo.com/~momollus/CiCmtg/Pitzman.htm

Topographer Kilian Frick died in 1864 after serving with Sherman. "He came home in the Spring of 1864, sick and worn out from the effects of overwork in the war, and died soon afterward. " (source)

This map must have been made around the late summer to fall of 1862. Sherman, Pitzman and Frick were in Memphis by July 1862 and Pitzman had been promoted from Lieutenant to Captain by the time Sherman left Memphis on December 20, 1862 and took Pitzman and Frick with him, keeping them very busy making maps all the way down to Vicksburg. This engineering publication also indicates it was made in the fall of 1862



"Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman" in Memphis, TN, c. 1862

a photo from PEPLOW & BALCH, Artists, STAR GALLERY, 221 Main St., MEMPHIS, TENN.

probably from some time in July 1862 - Jan 1863 when Sherman was in and around Memphis a lot. I think he first came to Memphis in late July 1862 , left Memphis with forces in November 1862, was briefly back in Memphis in mid-December, left to go down to Vicksburg on December 20, 1862, and was last in Memphis in October 1863 after Vicksburg.

Here's an excerpt from Sherman's memoirs describing some of his time around Memphis and thoughts on it: books.google.com/books?id=JG4FAAAAQAAJ&dq=Sherman&amp...

Sherman's son died of yellow fever at the Hotel Gayoso in Memphis:

"In August 1863, after the Sherman children returned home to Ohio, Ellen took them to visit William's encampment on the Big Black River, below Vicksburg, during a respite in the fighting. They spent six weeks at the camp.

In late September, as the family boarded the steamboat Atlantic to begin their journey back up the Mississippi River and home to Ohio, William noticed that Willy didn't look well. The boy was very quiet and his cheeks were flushed. Surgeon E. O. F. Roler of the 55th Illinois was consulted, and he sadly diagnosed young Willy as having yellow fever.

The trip to Memphis could only be described as terrible. Willy suffered from high fever, diarrhea, and other symptoms associated with the illness. The family refused to accept the prognosis and hovered over his bedside.

Arriving in Memphis, the semiconscious boy was carried by ambulance to the Gayoso Hotel, and was seen by the best of physicians. The situation was grim and a Catholic chaplain was summoned to administer the last rites. As Willy floated in and out of consciousness, he realized that he was dying.

Willy told the priest that he was quite willing to die if it was God's will, but that he didn't want to leave his father and mother. With this revelation, Ellen and William Sherman began to weep. Willy reached out and caressed their faces, then closed his eyes and slipped away. He died at 5 p.m. on October 3, 1863. He was nine years old.

On October 6th, after placing his family on the steamer to return to Ohio, Sherman found himself alone at the Gayoso Hotel, preparing to return to Vicksburg and the continuation of the war. From the hotel, he wrote his wife a letter of total despair:

'I have got up early this morning to steal a short period in which to write you, but I can hardly trust myself. Sleeping, waking, everywhere I see poor little Willy. His face and form are so deeply imprinted on my memory as were deep seated the hopes I had in his future. Why, oh why, should this child be taken from us, leaving us full of trembling and reproaches?

Though I know we did all human beings could do to arrest the ebbing tide of life, still I will always deplore my want of judgement in taking my family to so fatal a climate at so critical a period of the year… To it must be traced the loss of that child on whose future I had based all the ambition I ever had.'

Sherman never ceased blaming himself for the death of his son. He literally went insane with grief. Historians now consider the fact that Sherman's madness, the burning and killing throughout Mississippi, continuing on to the March to the Sea, was the result of his insurmountable loss."

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Robert Peplow
- Llisted simply as "Peplow" as a daguerreian in 1855 at 186 Main Street, Memphis, TN.
- In 1856-1857, listed as Robert Peplow, at 219 Main Street, in partnership as Park (J.) and Peplow.
- In 1859 Peplow was listed alone as a daguerreian at 313 Main Street; and
- In 1860 listed as a photographist at 262 Main Street.

H.A. Balch
- Noted as a daguerreian in Joliet, Ill., c. January, 1855. It was reported that he might move to Chicago, Ill., in the spring.

photographer info from: craigcamera.com/dag

(12-22-2012 09:31 AM)oldtiger Wrote:  

(12-21-2012 12:22 PM)KRB Wrote:  

(12-19-2012 12:45 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

Memphis Municipal Airport, 1962, photographed from the then-new control tower

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I remember the airport when it looked exactly like that. Our parents would take us out to watch planes land on the weekend. That was the entertainment.

KRB, I flew to St Louis from that terminal as a kid before the new one was built. Our little league team won a contest to watch the Cardinals play the Braves at old Sportsman's Park. Southeast Airlines DC-3.

WOW.

Although I don't go quite that far back, I do remember flying the below a lot - whether through St. Louis to Iowa, New Orleans, ATL or wherever...

(01-01-2013 10:33 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

1862 map of Memphis and Vicinity - by order of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

MEMPHIS AND VICINITY

Surveyed and drawn by order of
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
by Leut's Pitzman & Frick
Topographical Engineers

More info on topographer Julius Pitzman:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Pitzman
- home.usmo.com/~momollus/CiCmtg/Pitzman.htm

Topographer Kilian Frick died in 1864 after serving with Sherman. "He came home in the Spring of 1864, sick and worn out from the effects of overwork in the war, and died soon afterward. " (source)

This map must have been made around the late summer to fall of 1862. Sherman, Pitzman and Frick were in Memphis by July 1862 and Pitzman had been promoted from Lieutenant to Captain by the time Sherman left Memphis on December 20, 1862 and took Pitzman and Frick with him, keeping them very busy making maps all the way down to Vicksburg. This engineering publication also indicates it was made in the fall of 1862

Can't see the image....

(01-01-2013 10:46 PM)kpigout Wrote:  

(01-01-2013 10:33 PM)Cletus Wrote:  

1862 map of Memphis and Vicinity - by order of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

MEMPHIS AND VICINITY

Surveyed and drawn by order of
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman
by Leut's Pitzman & Frick
Topographical Engineers

More info on topographer Julius Pitzman:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Pitzman
- home.usmo.com/~momollus/CiCmtg/Pitzman.htm

Topographer Kilian Frick died in 1864 after serving with Sherman. "He came home in the Spring of 1864, sick and worn out from the effects of overwork in the war, and died soon afterward. " (source)

This map must have been made around the late summer to fall of 1862. Sherman, Pitzman and Frick were in Memphis by July 1862 and Pitzman had been promoted from Lieutenant to Captain by the time Sherman left Memphis on December 20, 1862 and took Pitzman and Frick with him, keeping them very busy making maps all the way down to Vicksburg. This engineering publication also indicates it was made in the fall of 1862

Can't see the image....

I see it

Memphis Fire Dept - Circa 1913



Piggly Wiggly headquarters on S Front St. Memphis TN - Circa 1923



Interior of Piggly Wiggly headquarters, Circa 1923

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