Some cool register business images:
316-320 Virginia Avenue, Planters Bank
Image by Universal Pops
Taken in Clarksville, Virginia--this group ends the series. The Planters Bank Building, a 2-story 5-bay brick structure, was constructed in 1909 by H. A. Poole of Oxford, North Carolina. For many years it served as a bank and for the Clarksville Post Office. The bank went under in 1933 in the Great Depression. The 2nd floor provided office space for businessmen and attorneys. The cornice has metal brackets, and there is a molded brick frieze. A pressed-metal pedimented tower element in the center bears the date 1909. On the façade from street level to the cornice are brick pilasters. There are segmental arched windows on 2nd level. VDHR ID: 192-0121-0010. This structure was added June 6, 2002 to the National Register of Historic Places as part of Clarksville Historic District, reference ID #02000625
Major source: Two Mecklenburg Towns—Boydton and Clarksville, ed. by John G. Zimmer, published by Virginia Department of Historic Resources in cooperation with the Southside Planning District Commission, Richmond 2003
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Taborian Hospital
Image by joseph a
The Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi was a famous African-American hospital funded by a fraternal organization called the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. The hospital provided healthcare to thousands of African-American patients from across the Delta and also had some notable connections with the Civil Rights movement. Dr. T.R.M. Howard, the first chief surgeon of the hospital, owned several business in Mound Bayou, including an insurance company that hired Medgar Evers, and led several local Civil Rights campaigns, including a series of annual rallies that brought in dignitaries ranging from Thurgood Marshall to Mahalia Jackson. Howard also became heavily involved with the events surrounding the Emmet Till case, advocating on behalf of justice and providing protection to those in the area for the trial. On the other end, Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer also spent a fair amount of time in the hospital as a patient. A documentary film crew was there at the time I visited.
