Guide to the Alabama Scenes MSS.2583
Alabama Scenes
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Amanda Haldy
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
October, 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2010-04-01T15:31-0500
- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Alabama Scenes
- Unit ID:
MSS.2583
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (47 Pages)
- Dates:
circa 1900
- Abstract:
These black-and-white photo-lithographs show residences, public buildings and scenic views from around Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
Scope and Contents note
Contains photo-lithographs of residences, public buildings and scenic views from around Alabama, principally from the Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham areas. The images bear identifying captions and the pages on which they are printed were once bound in a book. One or two pictures appear on each page.
Biographical/Historical note
The scenes are from Alabama, with an emphasis on well-to-do homes, though other scenes show work-yards and poorer neighborhoods, as well as "typical" streets. Many of the photo-lithographs feature unidentified people in their daily lives.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Alabama Scenes, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Amanda Haldy, 2009.
Alabama Scenes Box SC0028 Folder 2583.01