Showing posts with label Birmingham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birmingham. Show all posts
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Birmingham Photo [88]: Arms & Cycle Company

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Our photograph this time shows the interior of the Birmingham Arms and Cycle Company taken before 1920. The entry for this photo at the Ala...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Six Thousand Attend Birmingham Rally in 1935

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For more than a year now my brother Richard and I have been conducting a deep dive into the massive amount of family memorabilia at mom'...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Birmingham Postcard: The Redmont Hotel

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As its BhamWiki entry notes, the Redmont Hotel  opened in May 1925 with 250 rooms in the 14-story building. The Redmont is the oldest hotel ...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Tennant S. McWilliams, PhD [1943-2023]

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I wanted to note the passing on October 23 of UAB Professor Emeritus and historian Tennant S. McWilliams, who served as Dean of the School...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Birmingham's Hillman Hospital Opens in 1903

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In July 2014 I posted an item on this blog, "Hillman Hospital and How It Became UAB." I recently came across the article below p...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Birmingham Photo (86): Joiner Furniture Company

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I stumbled across this photograph as I wandered around the Alabama Mosaic web site. As the site notes , " Alabama Mosaic is a repositor...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Birmingham Photos (85): St. Mary's on the Highlands

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In September 2022 Dianne and I were in downtown Birmingham for a doctor's appointment at UAB and a visit to one of our favorite eating p...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Birmingham-Southern Student Handbook 1927-1928

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The financial woes of Birmingham-Southern College have been in the news a lot lately. As I continue to downsize my book collection, I rece...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Birmingham Photo of the Day [84]: Gus Brown

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Recently I've been roaming through Alabama Mosaic  again, a place of infinite distraction, and here's the result this time.  The doc...