"Birmingham, Alabama. Unit of the Alabama National Guard machine gun company en route to mines just outside of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, where miners are on strike."
Plate 40 from FORTY ETCHINGS: FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA, IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1827 AND 1828 by Captain Basil Hall. From the author's description: "The American Mail Stage in which we journeyed over so many wild as well as civilized...
This article describes reaction to "Black Thursday," October 24, 1929; according to the author, the atmosphere of the stock exchange was mostly calm and businesslike while the public on the street was in a frenzy: "Looking down from the meager...
"Races held at Point Mallard Park attract contestants from all over the Nation and some foreign countries. Crowds of kids and grownups gather to watch this very colorful and exciting event. There is more hot air involved in one of these races than...
"Hank's funeral drew the largest crowd ever to attend any funeral in Montgomery. The funeral was held in the city auditorium in order that more people might attend but the crowd had to wait outside that cold January day." From The Birmingham News...
Plate 12 from FORTY ETCHINGS: FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA, IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1827 AND 1828 by Captain Basil Hall. From the author's description: "In the interior of the country, or indeed in any newly-cleared district of the forests...
Article from The Dothan Eagle, which quotes several newspaper columns to "substantiate what Governor George Wallace has been saying all along--that outside money, pressures and influences are being used within Alabama to defeat him, that the...