A construction manual meant to guide Highway Engineering personnel and is a compilation in written form of the field experience and judgement of those ALDOT engineers with significant construction experience
Polk was killed at Pine Mountain outside Atlanta on June 14, 1864. This sketch by J. Ricon (done in pencil, ink, and watercolor) is in the museum collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Pencil sketch of a woman from Walker County, Alabama, drawn by Fred G. Gutherz. She is smoking a pipe and carrying a hoe. The sketch is in the museum collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
During the Civil War, Gutherz served in the First Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, C.S.A. This sketch (done in ink and watercolor) is in the museum collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Pencil sketch by Fred G. Gutherz, depicting a soldier (probably Gutherz himself) working on drawings or maps at a desk beside a wagon. The sketch is in the museum collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
"After the unfortunate attack on New Orleans the army was landed on Dauphin Island Feby. 8th. 1815, and remained there till the 5th April, when they received information of the peace. Sir Alexr Cochrane sailing on the 18th Febry. left Adml Malcolm...
Plate 20 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 figure on the left in this Sketch, was a Black man in charge of a plantation in...