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Source Collection
Twentieth century photograph collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0462.013_001.007
Description
Former McDowell-Monteverde Funeral Home at 531 Vance Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, August 1939. The building was reopened in the fall of 1939 as the Cossitt Library Negro Branch and operated until 1978 when it was destroyed by fire.
Date Created
2021
Date
1939 August
Recommended Citation
"McDowell-Monteverde Funeral Home, Memphis, 1939" (2021). Other images. 338.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-20thcenturyphoto3/338
Keywords
Libraries and Black people--Tennessee--Memphis.
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Archival Statement
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