Number    00123

Scan Date  5/6/02

Time Period     Early 1900's

Subject Matter      Hayne Street

Location      Monroe North Carolina

Description

Old Opera House, demolished in 1973

Photographer (if known)

Notes

Possible wording at bottom of this photo (note the "+" marking him in the photo also) -

“Hugh Hinde* reporting the (this?) meeting of Confederate Veterans at [a possible date]”

Transcription attempt by Mary Warshaw & Patricia Poland, October 2012

*Major Benjamin Hugh Hinde, WWI veteran, b. 1862 in London, England and died in 1924, Union or Mecklenburg County (traffic accident), North Carolina. -The Heritage of Union County, North Carolina, Vol. 1, 1842-1992, p. 241 - added by Patricia Poland, Union County Public Library

Measurements of original photograph

Height  7"

Width  5"

Type of photograph    Black and White