Thursday, March 26, 2015

Birmingham Photo of the Day (30): 3rd Avenue at Night in 1908

›
Once again I want to feature in this series a photograph from the 1908 publication Views of Birmingham . As the BhamWiki site notes , the bo...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Easters Past in Alabama

›
I plan to do several posts related to holidays and their celebration in Alabama or parts of it. The first was a look at "A Vintage V...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Birmingham Photos of the Day (29): Three Churches in 1908

›
I'm continuing to draw photographs from the wonderful 1908 publication Views of Birmingham .  The top photo is the "Baptist Chur...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Film Actresses from Alabama before 1960 (1): Lois Wilson

›
One of the earliest actresses from Alabama to find success in Hollywood, Lois Wilson is probably unknown to most state residents today. Alt...
1 comment:
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Old Alabama Stuff (4): Teacher Certification in 1922

›
This pamphlet of 16 pages was published in 1922 as Bulletin No. 32 of the State of Alabama Department of Education. The item describes the v...
Monday, March 9, 2015

That Time Mom Saw George Washington Carver in Camp Hill

›
George Washington Carver in March 1942 Photograph by Arthur Rothstein When my mother was six and seven years old, she and the fa...
2 comments:
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Birmingham Photo of the Day (28): The Morris Hotel in 1908

›
In the previous post in this series I made some comments on the city's Hillman Hotel and included a photo from the Views of Birmingham ...