Tourism, Travel
and Migration (continued, page 2)
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. The collection includes photographs
showing Alabama hotels, motels, roadways, railroads,
tourist courts and restaurants.
Size: 4,900+ photographs
Robinson, Lillian
Diary, 1917
(AR 774)
In this diary Lillian
Robinson, a resident of Birmingham, Alabama, chronicles
a trip she made to Washington, D. C. in June 1917.
Size: 1 box
Sommerkamp, Ferdinand S. C.
Travel Diary, 1835
(AR 1067)
This diary is an account
of the move by Sommerkamp, his wife Julia and
their eleven month old child from Baltimore, Maryland
to Talbotton, Georgia. The diary provides detailed
descriptions of travel in this era.
Size: 1 box
