Mickey Funeral Home (50 Cannon Street)

Photograph

Historic Charleston Foundation

Mickey Funeral Home (50 Cannon Street), ca. 1923

Name/Title

Mickey Funeral Home (50 Cannon Street)

Entry/Object ID

CANNON.GEN.002

Description

Photograph (scan) of an advertisement for The Mickey Funeral Home at 50 Cannon Street, including a B&W photograph of the building, street (front) elevation. Original source: "Simms' Blue Book and National Negro Business and Professional Directory" by James N. Simms, compiler and publisher, 1923. The Mickey Funeral Home was established in Charleston in 1894 by Edward Mickey. At his death, Edwin G. Harleston, brother of Edward Mickey's wife, Hannah Harleston Mickey, took over the firm until the two Mickey sons, Richard Harleston Mickey and Edward Crum Mickey became of age. In 1901, Edward Crum Mickey learned the trade and worked with Edwin G. Harleston at the funeral home. The company split in 1913; the Mickey Funeral Home re-established itself as an individual entity, run by the two brothers and their mother Hannah, while Edwin G. Harleston founded the Harleston Funeral Home. In the early 1930s, E.C. Mickey decided to build an expensive funeral parlor at 50 Cannon Street. The business failed and the firm shut down in 1933. (Source: Historical Note, Inventory of the Mickey Funeral Home Papers, Avery Research Center.)

Collection

HCF Image Collection

Acquisition

Accession

CANNON.GEN.

Source or Donor

Cannon Street (General)

Acquisition Method

Collected by Staff

Made/Created

Artist

Unattributed

Date made

1923

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Lost Architecture, Cannon Street, Demolished buildings, lost buildings, Historic buildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Lost architecture--South Carolina--Charleston, Funeral homes--South Carolina--Charleston

Location

Building

Digital File

Date

February 7, 2023

Provenance

Notes

Accessed from New York Public Library Digital Collection, 5/10/2012. Also available on the Digital Public Library of America.

Copyright

Copyright Details

Public domain.

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Create Date

July 25, 2013

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023