Adams was later promoted to colonel in the 33rd Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. He was killed at Atlanta. Ambrotype is 3.75 x 4.25 inches. It does not have a case.
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...
"Mr. Lewis was a member of Congress and later a Senator of the United States from Alabama. He was a man of large statue, weighing more than 450 pounds. It was necessary to prepare a special chair for him."
"Loading Coal Barges in Tuscaloosa County for Export at Mobile and New Orleans." The foundry of the Central Iron and Coal Company in Holt, Alabama (later part of the Empire Coke Company), is in the background. From the rotogravure section of the...
Advertisement for a May Day rally sponsored by the Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama. The flier encourages unity among workers of both races because "united action of white and Negro workers is the way to win." It also includes a copy of the...
"Old Stagecoach Hotel, Mooresville, Alabama. This was one of the early stagecoach stops in North Alabama. The post office was on the first floor, and mail was sorted while the passengers ate. Mooresville is the site of Old House, in which Andrew...
This image was printed in the quadrennial report of the Board of Control and Economy of the Alabama State Board of Administration (later the Alabama Department of Corrections) for the years 1919 to 1922.
Private Augustus M. Gordon and fellow private. Gordon later became lieutenant colonel of the 6th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., and was killed at Chancellorsville. Image from Confederate Veteran, vol. 6, pg. 376.
"It begins to look as though George S. Kauffman and Moss Hart, of 'Of Thee I Sing' fame, were right. Above is Representative Boykin of Alabama, who touched a new high in political diplomacy by running on a platform of love! With great logic, Boykin...
"This home was built in 1815 by Col. Leroy Pope, 'The Father of Huntsville', and overlooks a hill. Later it became the home of Leroy Pope Walker, who as Secretary of War for the CSA, gave the order to fire on Fort Sumter, which began the War...
"It was here that President James Monroe attended ceremonies admitting Alabama into Statehood in 1819. The mother of seven Governors and Rebel Raider, Gen. John Hunt Morgan, Huntsville is today best known as a center of the nation's guided missile...