Thursday, July 17, 2014

Mines, Mills & Moonshine: Silent Filmmaking in the Birmingham Area, Part 4

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Part 1 of this series can be found here ; part 2 here ; and part 3 here .             We don’t consider Birmingham a hotbed of silent ...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Mines, Mills & Moonshine: Silent Filmmaking in the Birmingham Area, Part 3

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Part 1 of this series can be found here and part 2 here .                A third silent film shot in the Birmingham area was Men of ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Pondering an Alabama Map (1): Pelham in 1917

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        A great resource for anyone interested in Alabama maps is the online Historical Map Archive at the University of Alabama, which dra...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Mines, Mills & Moonshine: Silent Filmmaking in the Birmingham Area, Part 2

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Part 1 of this series can be found here .                   Apparently the second of the Birmingham silent films was Coming Through , r...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Birmingham Photo of the Day (17): 19th Street in 1908

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The 1908 coffee table book Views of Birmingham Alabama (title page below) has a number of fascinating photographs of the area from that tim...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Weeding My Alabama Book Collection

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  Recently we had one of those Basement Events That Shall Remain Nameless, and as a result I am now going through my collection of severa...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

Birmingham Photo of the Day (16): Union Station [Terminal Station] in 1908

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Source: Views of Birmingham [1908] OK, ok, I guess it's technically a drawing, but it's a photograph  of a drawing, so here go...