Front: First National Bank, Huntsville, Ala. Back: The First National Bank building high on the Limestone bluff above Huntsville's historic Big Spring stands proud, essentially the same as it was in 1835 when constructed. It is a handsome reflection of the past in the center of a most ambitious urban redevelopment program, Huntsville's Central City Plan.
Back: FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, Huntsville, Alabama. For more than 100 years this beautiful building has stood as an architectural and financial landmark on a high limestone bluff, overlooking the Big Spring. It was used as a Commissary by Federal Troops during Huntsville's occupation in 1862.
Back: First National Bank Building, Huntsville, Alabama This building has been a landmark for over a century. The very same hold-up-proof cashier's cages of today were used as detention cells in 1835 where slaves were impounded for the debts of their masters.
Front: Famous Big Spring - Huntsville, Alabama - Water Supply 24,000,000 gallons daily Back: Compliments of Monroe Printing Company, Huntsville, Alabama It's a Beautiful World in Huntsville.
Front: BIG SPRING AT HUNTSVILLE This magnificent natural spring long known to the Indians brought the first settler into Madison County and the village of Huntsville of 1816 was the result. It is just under the hill from the Court House and the heart of town. Back: ALABAMA'S HISTORICAL FESTIVAL AND PAGEANT, Montgomery, May 5th and 6th, featuring "THE SPIRIT OF THE SOUTH", $10,000 Night Spectacle, 3,000 - Cast - 3,000
Back: THE BIG SPRING, Huntsville, Alabama. This spring located near the center of Huntsville, has furnished the water supply of Huntsville since its earliest days, and formed the nucleus for the South's first - and the nation's second - public waterworks system. This space has become world famous.
Front: Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala. Back: This spring is the city's water supply. Estimated flow is 24,000,000 gallons daily and is one block from city square.
Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala. Capacity 24,000,000 Gallons Daily. Back: John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, in 1805, was the first white man to build his hut on the banks of Big Spring, and it was from this pioneer that Huntsville takes its name.