Lakeview School

Manuscript, 1901-1958

(AR 454)

This typescript history of Lakeview School was produced by the Research Department of the Birmingham Board of Education.

Size: 1 reel microfilm

Birmingham” by Elberta Taylor. The articles discuss various well-known events and people in the city’s history, and the students have added hand-written lessons relating to the articles.

Size: 1 volume

Lincoln School

“The Story of Birmingham” Scrapbook, 1940-1941

(AR 1715)

This scrapbook was compiled by “Lincoln School Library Pupils” in 1940 and “revised” in 1941 and contains clippings of a series of Birmingham Post newspaper articles entitled “The Story of Birmingham” by Elberta Taylor. The articles discuss various well-known events and people in the city’s history, and the students have added hand-written lessons relating to the articles.

Size: 1 volume

Loulie Compton Seminary

Records, 1900-1943

(AR 93)

The Loulie Compton Seminary was a Birmingham private school. The records include annual catalogs of classes for the period 1909 to 1924; Seminary Blue Books, the school’s literary publication, for 1905 to 1908; yearbooks for 1921 to 1928; student grade reports for 1900 to 1943; and miscellaneous report cards, commencement programs, alumni luncheon programs and class plays.

Size: 9 boxes

Lowrey Family

Photographs

(AR 1733)

John W. Lowrey and his wife Eva lived on Twenty Third Street, South in Birmingham from at least the 1920s through at least the 1940s. Lowrey was employed by the National Supply Company, a firm that sold paints, lubricants, disinfectants, and other industrial supplies. This collection contains 13 photographs and one postcard. The photographs show family outings and students at Birmingham's South Highland elementary school.

Size: 14 images

McAdory High School P.T.A.

Scrapbooks, 1948-1950, 1956-1961, 1964-1966

(AR 1144)

These scrapbooks contains newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, art work and other material documenting the activities of the PTA and students at this western Jefferson County school.

Size: 7 volumes

McMahan, Virginia

Scrapbook, 1926

(AR 1822)

Virginia McMahan lived with her parents, Thaddeus Dale and Alberta McMahan, on Birmingham’s Southside while attending Philips High School. After graduating high school, McMahan became a student and remained living with her parents until 1932 when she became a public school teacher. McMahan became a teacher and then secretary of alumni at Birmingham-Southern College in 1946, and would be employed by Birmingham-Southern until the late 1990s. This scrapbook is typical of the memory books kept by many young women in the early 20th century. The scrapbook contains photographs, clippings, autographs, correspondence, and other memorabilia relating to Virginia McMahan’s high school years.

Size: 1 volume

Minor Elementary School

Record Book and Scrapbook, 1915-1925

(AR 778)

This collection contains one record book containing student attendance and grades and one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and photographs relating to the school.

Size: 2 volumes

Monterrey Academy

Day Book, 1856-1859

(AR 540)

This private academy day book contains rules, course of study and student attendance records.

Size: 1 volume

Moore, Eoline Wallace

Typescript: “A Survey of Some Phases of Education of Women in Early Alabama,”

1937-1938

(AR 768)

Size: 1 box

Mountain Brook Junior High School History Class

Oral History Projects

(AR 322)

Size: 2 boxes

Phillips High School Parent-Teacher Association

Scrapbook, 1956-1957

(AR 1757)

Phillips High School, named for Birmingham superintendent of education John Herbert Phillips, opened in 1923. Located on Seventh Avenue, North between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, the school was reserved for whites during the period when Birmingham's schools were racially segregated. This scrapbook, compiled by parents and students of Phillips High School, contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs and other material relating to the activities of the PTA, students, teachers, and school activities. The scrapbook also contains original artwork by John M. Tweddle, a student.

Size: 1 volume

Plant, Agnes

“My Memories of School Days,” 1926

(AR 955)

This scrapbook contains material relating to Plant’s graduation from Barker School, located in the East lake neighborhood of Birmingham.

Size: 1 volume

Ramsay High School P.T.A.

Scrapbook, 1938-1939

(AR 1222)

Size: 1 volume

Ross, Dorothea

Papers, 1928-1930

(AR 1295)

Dorothea Ross worked as a teacher in the welfare department of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. This collection contains correspondence and photographs relating to her work.

Size: 1 box

Russell, Carol Mitchell

Papers, 1923-1925

(AR 233)

This collection contains 20 letters from Carol Mitchell Russell to her mother and father written while Mitchell was a student at the Loulie Compton Seminary school in Birmingham, Alabama, one report card and one photograph album.

Size: 1 box

Sizemore, Margaret Davidson

Papers, 1975-1980

(AR 184)

Margaret Sizemore served as Dean of Women at Samford University and was active in numerous organizations. This collection contains correspondence, brochures, minutes of meetings and newspaper clippings relating to a variety of local organizations including the Birmingham-Jefferson Historical Society, Alabama Women’s Commission, Arlington Historical Society and the Tannehill Furnace and Foundry Commission.

Size: 5 boxes

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