Account written by Richard Blount (while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission) describing the Cherokees' negative reaction to the boundary survey. Blount met with Cherokee representatives to defend the work: "We are sent here...
Article written by Bill Kennedy for his column, "Branch Head Bill Says!" In it Kennedy promotes George Wallace because he poses the "threat of a third national party," which he proved when he "organized and led a 10-million-vote...
Two other images are pictured on either side of the courthouse. Left: "Union Avenue, Looking South." Right: "Business Corners, Union Ave. and Broad St." The date written above the message on the back of this postcard is July 8, 1909.
Thomas Walker Wallace wrote this piece for his column "Here and There," which was published in the Birmingham Reporter, an African American newspaper. In it he argues against the death penalty. While he concedes that "It seems reasonable that when...
The following is written on the front of the postcard: "What is left of Shell Road. See driftwood in the woods. See oyster shells to right. This is all sand now. Monroe Park."
"Located 4 miles south of Clanton on Highway I-65 at Clanton 31-22 exit, across the bridge from Holiday Inn. We grow Alabama's choice, tree-ripened fruits. Peaches, Apples, Pears and Nectarines - all fresh from our orchards." The word "pears" has...
Written on the original photograph: "Old Felix and his partner." Hubbard was a blind peddler in Opelika. Image is probably from Confederate Veteran magazine.
This editorial was written after African American citizens submitted a petition asking for Montgomery city parks to be integrated; the piece was reprinted on December 24 in response to a federal lawsuit filed to protest park segregation. The author...
Leaflet addressed to Democrats in Dallas County, Alabama, urging them to vote for the "good and true men" of the party, who will not resort to illegal methods to gain political power: "They will tell you, that when bad men are elected to office,...
This article, written the day before "Black Tuesday," reports that "prices broke wide open" in the stock market during the day: "Many of the leaders sold close to the low levels established in last Thursday's dramatic collapse in prices, and some...
This poem, written by nineteenth century poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, deals with love and death. Boykin autographed this copy and gave it to his daughter and son-in-law.