Several photographs from the William H. Sumner Collection at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are now available on DigitalNC. This is a great selection of photos from Charlotte and other parts of North Carolina in the 1940s. My favorite, shown here, is this shot of a family admiring a decorated window at the Belk store in Charlotte in 1946.

Learn more about the Special Collections in the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC-Charlotte by visiting their website, or by keeping up with their excellent blog, “Living Charlotte.”