UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives

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  • img_00237.pdf

    Back: STREET SCENE, Huntsville, Alabama, a cultural center of the Old South. Huntsville is a large retail trading center, the focal point of an industrial segment of 8 million persons in a 200 mile radius.
  • img_00825.pdf

    Back: Aerial view of Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum with Jones Valley in the background.
  • img_00089.pdf

    Back: AERIAL VIEW OF HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA "Where America's Race to the Moon Began"
    This scene shows a part of Big Springs Park, the City Hall, Madison County Courthouse, State National Bank Building and other fine edifices in downtown.
  • img_00091.pdf

    Front: Aerial View of Main Business Section, Huntsville, Alabama
  • img_01017.pdf

    Back: An aerial view of Troop Housing at the Missile and Maintenance Center and School at Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama.
  • img_01209.pdf

    Back: ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE, Normal, Alabama
    A partial view of the campus in the Fall. Organized in 1875 as the Huntsville Normal and Industrial School by William Hooper Councill, with 2 teachers and 61 pupils, it is now nationally recognized.
  • img_01213.pdf

    Back: ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE, Normal, Alabama
    Bibb Graves Hall in center and on the right is the Student Union Building (College Center).
  • img_01215.pdf

    Front: Historic Huntsville
    Back: Historic Huntsville, Alabama. ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE.
    On this campus site once stood the Green Bottom Inn, one of Huntsville's earliest hostelries, noted for its race track. GRAY GANDER, once rated the world's fastest horse and winner of a $20,000 purse (not a small amount in the 1800's), raced and worked out here. Many notables, including President James Monroe, President James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson, gathered here for rest and diversion.
  • img_01211.pdf

    Front: Alabama A & M
    Back: ALABAMA A & M, Normal, Alabama
    Science Building in foreground - also showing Bibb Graves Hall, Student Center, Library, Cafeteria and Women's Dormitory.
  • img_01027.pdf

    ALABAMA SPACE & ROCKET CENTER. A 1.9 million dollar, State-owned science exhibit containing Exhibit Building, Rocket Area, Apollo-Saturn V Moon Rocket, Moon Crater and Missile Area. Features 50 audience participation exhibits describing rocket propulsion, living in space, Apollo lunar landing and story of the universe. Located within city limits of Huntsville, Alabama.

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