The parade was held in support of the 1949 Alabama special county school tax. Dudley Burwell was one of the students who marched with his class at E. Clinton Grammar School.
The parade was held in support of the 1949 Alabama special county school tax. Harrison Brothers Hardware can be seen in the background. One of the children carries a sign that reads, "The Public School is the Hope of the Nation."
This greeting card was sent from M. Louis Salmon in Vienna, Austria to his parents in Mobile, Alabama at Christmas 1945. The inscription reads, "Your devoted son, Louis."
This section contains correspondence letters centering around the genealogy, family tree and family history of the Pettus family. Contains handwritten notes and images relating to the Pettus family genealogy.
This newsletter was produced by the crew of the USAT General C.C. Ballou and includes information about services onboard, ship terminology, and news bulletins. The family of William A. Mrazek, an engineer who was already in the United States at Fort Bliss, Texas, immigrated from Germany to the United States on the Ballou. The newsletter was produced in both English and German.
The V-2 rocket was also called the A-4, or Aggregat 4, its technical name. The back of the diagram is stamped "Geheime Kommandosache" ("Secret Military Document").
The document lists Edwin D. Burwell Jr.'s previous military positions. It also inclused a note from his supervising marking that Burwell is capable, intelligent, and efficient, but has a tendency to argue and involve himself in other people's business.
This letter from W. E. Hodges details current happenings in cousin Hodges life. He requests coats and pants and writes that he "will glad get them." Hodges ends by stating he will be 70 years old the next year.
This section contains correspondence (both typed and handwritten, envelopes, newspaper clippings and handwritten notes relating to the genealogy of Ruth Elizabeth Pettus.
This production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville was produced by Landestheater Linz in Linz, Austria. Collected by Louis Salmon during his U.S. Army service in Austria during and after World War II, this playbill includes a cast listing in German and a summary of the opera in English on the reverse.