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  Map of completed and proposed Apollo moon landing sites.

  The map shows landing locations on the moon's surface, including proposed landing sites of the cancelled Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 missions. This map was created as part of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) Project.
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  Bernhard Tessmann and William A. Schulze with a group at Fort Bliss, Texas.

  Tessmann is standing on the front row on the far left. Schulze is standing directly behind him. Tessmann and Schulze were both engineers who were relocated from Germany to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip after World War II.
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  Frances C. Roberts at the time of her graduation from Alabama State Teachers College in Livingston, Alabama.

  Roberts received a Bachelor of Science from Alabama State Teachers College in 1937. The college is known today as the University of West Alabama.
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  Frances C. Roberts at commencement at the University of Alabama.

  This photo was taken at the time of Roberts' doctoral graduation from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in history from the University of Alabama. On either side of her are Howard C. Elliot, Jr., Ph.D. in biochemistry, and Elmer Dean Calloway, Ph.D. in chemistry.
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  Frances C. Roberts standing in front of a display of U.S. Army missiles at Redstone Arsenal.

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  Frances C. Roberts at her desk.

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  Frances C. Roberts delivering a speech.

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  Photo of Frances C. Roberts.

  Photo from the Huntsville Times. The photo was taken for an article about the honorary doctor of humane letters that Roberts received from UAH on December 12, 1993.
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  Portrait photograph of Frances C. Roberts.

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  "Farm Production and Marketing in Alabama: Committee Report on Alabama Farm Commodities and Appraisal of Marketing Facilities."

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  Drawings of a sidewalk well and rail on Courthouse Square in downtown Huntsville, Alabama.

  The drawings include plans for a building a well in the sidewalk with a glass top for viewing the "old handmade brick walk" underneath the current sidewalk. In one of the notes, architect Harvie P. Jones notes that the historic sidewalk probably dates from the early to mid-nineteenth century "based on its depth of approximately 10" below the present walk." The well is located in front of 205 East Side Square. It was restored in 2018.
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  The lunar roving vehicle (LRV) on the Moon.

  This photo shows the LRV on the moon at the Hadley-Appenine mountain range landing site during the Apollo 15 mission. Developed by Marshall Space Flight Center and built by Boeing, the LRV was an electric vehicle used to explore the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions.
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  Two astronauts driving a test model of the lunar roving vehicle (LRV).

  Developed by Marshall Space Flight Center and built by Boeing, the LRV was an electric vehicle used to explore the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions.
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  The lunar roving vehicle (LRV) during its construction.

  Developed by Marshall Space Flight Center and built by Boeing, the LRV was an electric vehicle used to explore the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions.
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  Photo album of downtown Huntsville from the city's sesquicentennial celebration.

  The album includes photos of the Confederate monument and banners and decorations on the street.
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  Photo album of downtown Huntsville from the city's sesquicentennial celebration.

  The photos show scenes from the sesquicentennial festivities in and around the square, including people dressed in early nineteenth century attire, storefronts, and street decorations.
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  Monte Sano Pike Toll Gate.

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  "Cotton Market, Huntsville, Ala."

  The photo shows the north side of courthouse square looking east in downtown Huntsville. The Madison County Courthouse can be seen at the right of the photo.
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  "Entrance to Shelta Caverns."

  The photo shows the owner, Henry Fuller, with his family outside the cave entrance. Fuller purchased the cave in 1888 and developed it into an underground dance hall and bar. The cave is near current-day Pulaski Pike in Huntsville.
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  "The Eddies -- Monte Sano Ramble."

  The photo depicts a man sitting on the rocks amidst the trees. The back of the photo reads, " 'The Eddies' or Eddy Rocks of Monte Sano."
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  Crowd gathered at the capitol building in Denver, Colorado.

  A handwritten inscription on the back of the photo notes, "The day 'our soldiers' came home, in front of capital. Sept. '99."
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  "Entrance to O'Shaughnessy Place -- Monte Sano."

  The O'Shaughnessy Place, nicknamed "Castle Delight," was built in 1885 by Col. James and Lucy O'Shaughnessy. It was a two-story Queen Anne-style house with four chimneys, gas lights, water lines, and indoor plumbing. Col. O'Shaughnessy was a cotton and real estate broker, seaport and railroad developer, and co-owner of the Huntsville Hotel, Huntsville Opera House, Hotel Monte Sano, and the Monte Sano Railway and Turnpike. The house burned in March 1890 and was demolished in the 1920s.
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  "Natural Wells. 350 ft drop in solid rock -- Monte Sano."

  The well is a large limestone cave shaft located near the site of the Hotel Monte Sano.
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  A horse and buggy team fording a body of water near Huntsville, Alabama.

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  "The head of Big Spring Huntsville Ala."

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  "Hotel Monte Sano."

  The hotel opened on June 1, 1887 as a luxury health resort. It was built by the North Alabama Improvement Company with funding from Michael and James O'Shaughnessy. The hotel closed in 1900 and was demolished in 1944.
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  "Lilly Lake -- Monte Sano."

  This photo shows a scene at Lily Lake on the grounds of Col. James O'Shaughnessy's home on Monte Sano. According to the Historic Huntsville Quarterly, the structure in the foreground of the photo is a "four-tiered vertical framework covered with ivy, and reaching an impressive height of twelve feet or so."
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  "The Valley of Huntsville."

  The view shows Athens Pike (now Holmes Avenue) in Huntsville, Alabama, with Monte Sano Mountain in the background.
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  Monte Sano Boy Scout troop on a camping trip.

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  Photo of the cast of a production of Snow White at the Monte Sano community pool.

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  Topographical map of Monte Sano.

  This map was drawn by William W. Varnedoe, Jr. and published by the Monte Sano Civic Association. It shows Monte Sano's neighborhoods, the state park, and the mountain's natural features, including springs and caves. The map also notes changes in elevation.
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  Space Journal, vol. 1, no. 1., Summer 1957.

  This issue of Space Journal includes articles written by Fred L. Whipple, Hermann Oberth, and Ernst Stuhlinger, as well as a foreword by Wernher von Braun. The issue also includes drawings for an observatory to be built at the top of Monte Sano Mountain in Huntsville, Alabama. Produced by the Rocket City Astronomical Association (now known as the Von Braun Astronomical Society), Space Journal was published in Huntsville from 1957 to 1959. This digitized copy was generously provided by Jeff Bennett at the Von Braun Astronomical Society (VBAS).
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  "Your Family Survival Plan."

  The pamphlet instructs readers how to build a fallout shelter and includes instructions for storing food and water, specifications for building materials, and charts for keeping track of food and water supply, shelter supplies and equipment, and first aid.
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  Transcript of a speech given by Wernher von Braun to the Alabama Legislature.

  Von Braun, then the director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, delivered this speech to the legislature in 1961. In the speech, he emphasizes that Alabama must take advantage of its position in the aerospace industry and create a robust "academic and research environment" in Huntsville to attract businesses that "will give birth to major new industries throughout the state." He exhorts the legislature to fund the newly established University of Alabama Research Institute (now part of the University of Alabama in Huntsville), arguing that "the Institute will not only be self-sustaining, but will enrich the State both financially and culturally." The legislature later approved von Braun's request of $3 million for the Research Institute, enabling the purchase of 200 acres of land for the campus and the construction of the Institute in 1964. The speech includes copies of slides von Braun used during his presentation, including diagrams of Saturn and Nova rockets as well as a mockup of a Saturn rocket on the lawn of the state capitol in Montgomery.
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  "Saturn I: The First Generation of Heavy Launch Vehicles Designed for Peaceful Exploration of Space."

  The leaflet outlines the history of Saturn launches and gives a physical description of the rocket. The description includes a diagram of each stage; specifications of each stage's thrust, propellants, liftoff weight, and burning time; and engine specifications.
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  David Christensen in his office.

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  Charles Lundquist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

  Charles A. Lundquist seated in Von Braun Research Hall, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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  Space Journal, vol 1, no.2, Spring 1958.

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  Space Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, Summer 1958.

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  Tiere der Urwelt: in 30 Kunstblättern nach wissenschaftliche Material bearbeitet.

  This set of illustrated cards includes thirty color prints of various animals of the prehistoric world. The Theodor Reichardt Cocoa Company produced five different series of these cards in the early twentieth century. While the cover indicates that this volume contains cards from series 1a, it also includes cards from series 1 and series 2a. Many of the pages show notes made in ink by science writer Willy Ley, the book's original owner.