Photographs

General Collection

(AR 1556)

The general photograph collection is an artificial collection created by the Archives Department to house photographs acquired individually rather than as part of a larger body of material. New images are added to the collection as they become available. This collection contains photographic prints and negatives. The images relate primarily to the Birmingham area and to a lesser extent Alabama, and include streetscapes, buildings, and events. The images date from the 1870s to the 1990s with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Size: 4,900+ photographs

Roberts, Sadie G.

Scrapbook “My Golf Life” and Photographs, 1924-1952

(AR 970)

Sadie G. Roberts was a founder and served as President of the Women’s Alabama Golf Association. This scrapbook contains material relating to her golfing career spanning the years 1924-1952.

Size: 1 box

United States. National Parks Service. Historic American Buildings Survey

Rickwood Field Report

(AR 1604)

Size: 1 box

Van Hoose, Alf

Scrapbook and Publications, 1952-1953 and 1966

(AR 1739)

Alf Van Hoose, Jr. was a reporter and sports editor for The Birmingham News. He joined the News in 1947 and served as sports editor for 21 years until his retirement in 1990. He died in Birmingham in 1997. In 1966 Alf Van Hoose and Birmingham News photographer Tony Falleta spent about 60 days in Vietnam with the First Infantry Division, known as the “Big Red One.” This collection includes one scrapbook of newspaper articles written by Van Hoose reporting on the war and describing the daily activities of American soldiers and the Vietnamese people. Also included are five copies of Golfing Alabama, a magazine for which Van Hoose was a contributing editor.

Size: 2 boxes

White, V. T.

T.C.I. Employees’ Amateur Baseball Association File, 1931

(AR 1839)

V. T. White was an employee of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company who also served as president of the T.C.I. Employees’ Amateur Baseball Association, an organization overseeing T.C.I.’s industrial baseball league. This collection contains team rosters, regulations governing the league, team schedules, attendance records, correspondence, and other material.

Size: 1 box

Young Women’s Christian Association, Birmingham (YWCA)

Records, 1900-1975

(AR 549 and AR 81)

This collection includes minutes of the board of director’s meetings, records of various committees, scrapbooks, property records and other legal documents. The collection also includes material relating to the girls’ sports.

Size: 47 boxes

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