"Action spoke louder than words when Speaker of the House Bankhead went backstage after the show to congratulate his daughter, Miss Tallulah Bankhead, on her performance. There was a big hug and kiss from the Speaker when his daughter asked him...
Aquila D. Hutton first enlisted as a private in Co. A, 36th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. This photograph was taken after he had joined Co. H, 12th Mississippi Cavalry as a junior second lieutenant (later promoted to second lieutenant). Image is...
The Alabama Conference Female College moved to Montgomery in 1909 and was renamed the Woman's College of Alabama. After becoming co-educational, the school was renamed Huntingdon College.
Letter from James Foster, a 68-year-old prisoner in Wetumpka, Alabama, to Governor W. J. Samford. In the letter Foster asks the governor to grant him parole. He acknowledges his guilt but argues that his good behavior makes him a worthy candidate...
"Normal Employment Is Expected To Be Reached In A Short Time." This article discusses the resumption of activity in Calhoun County's cotton mills after the unsuccessful nationwide textile strike (which began as a statewide strike).
"The House of Representatives was the setting yesterday for the baptism of Robert Joseph Coar, Jr., whose father is in charge of the capitol's radio room. In the baptism ceremony, the four-months-old infant was consecrated to 'God and his country.'...
Employees at work in a Westinghouse plant in Alabama: "After the bulbs are lacquered inside (on the machines at the left), they are automatically fed into the drying oven (right). This is the first and only oven of its kind in use by the company...