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ALAARC_161108_007.JPG: Alabama Beaches
ALAARC_161108_010.JPG: Damn the Torpedoes -- Full Speed Ahead!
ALAARC_161108_012.JPG: To Kill a Mockingbird
A novel by Harper Lee
ALAARC_161108_014.JPG: Basilosaurus Cetoides Swam Here 35 Million Years Ago
ALAARC_161108_016.JPG: St. Stephens, US Flag First Raised in Alabama, 1799
ALAARC_161108_018.JPG: Alabama's First Commercial Oil Well, 1944
ALAARC_161108_021.JPG: Shipping Cotton to the World
ALAARC_161108_024.JPG: Alabama River
Edmund Pettus Bridge
1965 Voting Rights March
ALAARC_161108_025.JPG: Montgomery
Daniel Print's Cotton Gin Factory
Wright Brothers First Flying School, 1910
First Capital of the Confederacy, 1861
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956
ALAARC_161108_027.JPG: Home of George and Lurleen Wallace
ALAARC_161108_029.JPG: Fort Rucker: Home of Army Aviation
ALAARC_161108_031.JPG: The Federal Road Opens Alabama to Pioneers
ALAARC_161108_033.JPG: G.W. Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington
ALAARC_161108_039.JPG: Birmingham
Abernathy, King, Shuttlesworth Civil Rights Leaders
Vulcan: Symbol of Alabama's Iron Industry
ALAARC_161108_041.JPG: Sock Capital of the World
ALAARC_161108_043.JPG: Birthplace of Jesse Owens
ALAARC_161108_048.JPG: Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan
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ALAARC_161108_050.JPG: W.C. Handy Plays the Blues
ALAARC_161108_060.JPG: Bronze Model of Alabama's Memorial to her Confederate Heroes at Vicksburg National Military Park
Dedicated July 19, 1951
Sponsored by Ala. Div., UDC
Finances by State Legislature, $150,000.00
Steffen Thomas, Sculptor
ALAARC_161108_063.JPG: William Wyatt Bibb
Governor Alabama Territory 1817-1819
Governor State of Alabama 1819-1820
1781-1820
ALAARC_161108_067.JPG: Booker Taliaferro Washington
ALAARC_161108_070.JPG: Marie Bankhead Owen
Director
Alabama Department of Archives & History
1920-1955
ALAARC_161108_078.JPG: Thomas Erby Kilby
Governor 1919-1923
ALAARC_161108_080.JPG: William C. Oates
ALAARC_161108_083.JPG: Branton Brace Gomer
ALAARC_161108_085.JPG: George Washington Carver
ALAARC_161108_088.JPG: Robert Lee Bullard
ALAARC_161108_094.JPG: Erected by the State of Alabama as a memorial to her songs who on land and sea defended the nation's honor in the war with Spain in the insurrection in the Philippines and the China Relief Expedition, 1898-1902.
Dedicated October 18, 1940 under the auspices of the Department of Alabama, United Spanish War Veterans.
ALAARC_161108_096.JPG: William W. Brandon
ALAARC_161108_098.JPG: Joseph Wheeler
ALAARC_161108_103.JPG: Richmond Pearson Hobson
ALAARC_161108_106.JPG: Booker Taliaferro Washington
ALAARC_161108_109.JPG: Thomas McAdory Owen
ALAARC_161108_118.JPG: Oliver Pitts
ALAARC_161108_124.JPG: Edgar Daniel Nixon, Sr.
ALAARC_161108_129.JPG: Thomas Eastin
ALAARC_161108_131.JPG: Jeremiah Clemens
ALAARC_161108_137.JPG: Mrs. John H. Bankhead
ALAARC_161108_141.JPG: Frances Griffin
ALAARC_161108_143.JPG: Hattie Hooker Wilkins
1875-1949
First woman elected to the Alabama Legislature (1922)
Leader in the women's suffrage movement
ALAARC_161108_145.JPG: John H. Bankhead
ALAARC_161108_147.JPG: Grandma's Attic
ALAARC_161108_173.JPG: This tablet was placed by the Francis Marion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in memory of the soldiers of the American Revolution who later lived in Montgomery County, Alabama.
ALAARC_161108_177.JPG: Martin Luther King, Jr.
ALAARC_161108_184.JPG: In memoriam
G. Moretti
who divided his great love for sculpture with affection for our state by giving freely of his means and profound knowledge of earths hidden treasures by tireless research and work in the practical development of one of its greatest mineral resources the marble of Alabama.
The head of the Christ was carved by him in Alabama marble in 1904 and was presented in 1941 by his wife Dorothea Long Moretti to the people of Alabama.
ALAARC_161108_186.JPG: Julia Strudwick Tutwiler
ALAARC_161108_197.JPG: Andrew Dexter
ALAARC_161108_200.JPG: George Washington Carver
ALAARC_161108_202.JPG: Nat "King" Cole
ALAARC_161108_208.JPG: W.C. Handy
ALAARC_161108_227.JPG: Fight between the "Alabama," CSN, and the "Kearsarge," USN, off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864, when the Confederate cruiser was sunk.
ALAARC_161108_232.JPG: A 1966 petition singed by 3,804 white parents concerned about the integration of students and faculty in Tuscaloosa City and County Schools.
ALAARC_161108_237.JPG: Although challenges to desegregation continued in the 1970s, many Alabama students adjusted to the reality of integration. This 1972 yearbook from West End High School in Birmingham shows an integrated student population.
Wikipedia Description: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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The Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama. It was created by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901 with a primary mission of collecting and preserving artifacts relating to the history of the state. It was the first publicly funded, independent state archives agency in the United States. It subsequently became a model for the establishment of archives in other states. Today the agency identifies, preserves, and makes accessible records and artifacts significant to the history of the state and serves as the official repository for records created by Alabama's state agencies.
The building and exhibits
The Department of Archives and History was housed in the old Senate cloak room at the Alabama State Capitol after its establishment in 1901. It was then moved to the Capitol's new south wing upon its completion in 1906. A separate building was first conceived of in 1918 by Thomas McAdory Owen, the first director of the Archives. However, funding did not become available until the 1930s, when the next director, Marie Bankhead Owen (wife of Thomas), was able to secure the necessary capital from the Works Progress Administration.
The three-story Neoclassical building was built from 1938–40. An east wing was completed in 1970 and a west one in 2005. The west wing added 60,000 square feet (5,574 m2) of new space to the building. The original Washington Avenue bronze entrance doors to the building were designed by artist Nathan Glick. They depict eight scenes from Alabama history. Following many years of wear they were relocated to the Ocllo S. Malone Lobby in the new west wing. The first and second floors of the Archives building features walls clad in white Alabama marble.
The first floor contains the original Washington Avenue entrance lobby, which features a coffered ceilin ...More...
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2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.
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