Adler, Bertha Marx

Scrapbook, 1888-1889

(AR 373)

Bertha Marx Adler was the daughter of Birmingham merchant Samuel Marx, one of the founders of Temple Emanu-El. In 1892 she married Samuel M. Adler, a Birmingham businessman and investor. This scrapbook is an atlas that Bertha Marx, then a young woman, converted to a scrapbook by pasting items over the pages. The scrapbook primarily contains programs from Birmingham theater productions, but also contains a few programs from Birmingham High School and an order of service from the 1889 dedication of Temple Emanu-El.

Size: 1 volume

Adler, Jeanne

Scrapbook, 1912

(AR 486)

Jeanne Adler was the daughter of Samuel and Bertha Marx Adler and resided on Highland Avenue in Birmingham. This scrapbook, entitled “The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book,” contains clippings, photographs, notes from classmates and other memorabilia relating to Adler’s senior year at Birmingham High School.

Size: 1 volume

Alley School P.T.A.

Scrapbooks, 1960-1962

(AR 677)

Alley School was an elementary school located on Birmingham’s Southside. These two scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, lists of officers and memorabilia relating to the activities of the PTA.

Size: 2 volumes

Anselmo Antonio, Carmella

Papers

(AR 737)

Born in Sicily, Carmella Anselmo Antonio immigrated to Birmingham in 1921 where she taught in the public schools and taught English language and citizenship classes to other immigrants. She worked at the Bechtel-McCone aircraft facility in Birmingham during World War II. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings and other material relating to her life and her students.

Size: 2 boxes

Avondale School P.T.A.

“Avondale School History to 1935”

(AR 1650)

Size: 1 box

Avondale School P.T.A.

Scrapbook, 1931-1934

(AR 1223)

Size: 1 volume

Bass, Helen

Papers, 1937-1942 and 1967-1971

(AR 1535)

This collection contains the personal papers, primarily correspondence, of the Bass family of Birmingham. Most of the papers are letters to and from Mrs. Fred Bass, Sr., her son Fred Bass Jr., and her daughter Helen Bass, for whom the collection is named. The bulk of correspondence dates from the late 1930s and early 1940s the years in which Fred Bass, Jr. attended the Marion Military Institute. The letters to and from Fred Bass, Jr. capture the cares and worries of a boy in the 1930s hoping for a career in the military. There are a few mentions of the oncoming war in the correspondence including a few jokes about Hitler. The collection also contains letters to Helen from her nephew, Fred. These letters revolve around Fred being drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam. While in Vietnam, he served as a detention officer in a POW camp, and in his letters, he gives descriptions of his surroundings.

Size: 4 boxes