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Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: To view, click the arrow icon at the top right of the image. Souvenir postcard packet showing images from Selma, Alabama, circa 1940s. 1) “Fort W. W. Quarles Armory”; 2) “Selma Country Club”; 3) “Vaughan Memorial Hospital”; 4) “First Presbyterian Church”; 5) “Dallas Avenue, Selma, Ala.” 6) “YMCA”... View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Vulcan, The Iron Man, weighing 60 tons, is the largest cast-iron statue in the world, and, with the exception of the Statue of Liberty, the highest statue in America. It was made to represent Birmingham at the St. Louis exposition in 1904, and was recently moved to its present location. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: “This view shows one of the beautiful bedrooms of Arlington Shrine which is furnished in antebellum period furnishings. Arlington was occupied by Gen. Wilson of the Union Army during the Civil War.” View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: “Located 16 miles above Wilson Dam, Wheeler Dam backs up the Tennessee River for 74 miles to Guntersville Dam, forming Wheeler Lake. The dam is 6,342’ in length and 72’ high. The cost when completed in 1936 was $46,000,000.” View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: This view shows Wedding Cake Rock, one of the many beautiful natural rock formations to be seen in Citadel Rocks. De Soto Falls and Little River Canyon are nearby. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: The Confederate Monument at the north side of Alabama's historic Capitol was erected in 1899 in memory of the Confederate dead. Jefferson Davis, First President of the Confederacy who took his oath of office on the portico of the State Capitol at Montgomery, laid the cornerstone at ceremonies hel... View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: The Alabama State Coliseum, located at Montgomery, is one of the most unique structures of its kind. The Coliseum is circular in plan with a diameter of 340 feet and contains an oval arena 130 feet by 260 feet surrounded by 8,528 permanent chair seats. The roof is a barrel arch consisting of elev... View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: This temple, a replica of the ancient temple of Vesta in Rome, is located atop Shades Mountain, six miles south of Birmingham. The Art Gallery contains many Roman Statues and a mural of the Vestal virgins. Gardens and tearoom are open year around. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Montgomery, the Capital of Alabama, and the Cradle of the Confederacy, was founded in 1819. It became the state capital in 1847, and was the first capital of the Confederacy. Here on Jan. 7, 1861, Alabama voted to secede from the Union. On Feb. 4, the Confederate States of America was organized, ... View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: A highlight of any visit to Birmingham is Vestavia, patterned after the temple of the Roman Goddess Vesta. View Full Item at Samford University Library