UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives

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  • img_00013.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, ALA. Huntsville Spring in Winter. Court House.
    Back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress May 19, 1898.
  • img_00015.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, ALA. Huntsville, U. S. Court House & Post Office, Hotel Monte Sano and Grounds.
    Back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress May 19, 1898.
  • img_00019.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville
  • img_00023.pdf

    Front: Colonial Homes, Huntsville, Ala.
    Back: Few parts of the South equal Huntsville in wealth of handsome ante-bellum Homes. Posterity may view with profitable concern
    No. 1, the residence first Secretary of the States of the Confederacy, who issued order to fire on Fort Sumter in 1861, first shot ot the Civil War. This edifice was built in 1815.
    No. 2, the home of the first Governor of Alabama, built in 1837.
    No. 3, the palatial home ot a wealthy planter of the Old South, built in 1835.
  • img_00025.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00031.pdf

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Ala. Spring Park., Government Bldg., Court House, Elks' Home & Opera House, Franklin St.
  • img_00037.pdf

    Front: Greetings From Rocket City - Huntsville, Alabama, Home of the Redstone Arsenal
    Back: Huntsville is the home of Redstone Arsenal which houses the U. S. Army Missile Command with responsibility for all Army Missiles and Rockets, the U. S. Army Ordnance Guided Missile School where soldiers receive missile training and the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA which provides the giant rocket vehicles for the nation's space program.
  • img_00039.pdf

    Front: Huntsville, Alabama, The Space Capital
    Back: HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA, "The Space Capital Of The Universe"
    Shown Here Are The Former Madison County Courthouse, Big Springs, Oaklawn Home, Redstone Missile, The Saturn #1 Space Vehicle.
  • img_00041.pdf

    Front: Greetings From Rocket City - Huntsville, Alabama, Home of the Redstone Arsenal
    Back: Huntsville is home of Redstone Arsenal, the Army Ordance research and development center for rockets and guided missiles. Here has centered the development of such famous rockets and guided missiles as the Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules, Corporal, Sergeant, Hawk, Dart, Little John, Honest John, Lacrosse, Hermes, Redstone, Jupiter and Jupiter C, which launched America's first earth satellite.
  • img_00045.pdf

    Front: Welcome! Space Capital of the Universe, Huntsville, Alabama.
    Back: WELCOME TO HUNTSVILLE! Huntsville, Ala. is the home of Redstone Arsenal, where the Army Ballistic Missile Agency is located. Also the Army Ordnance Guided Missile School.