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A Letter from The AIDS Education & Ministry Project at UAB
A letter from the Rev. Malcolm Marler at the 1917 AIDS Clinic to the Rev. Marge Ragona at the Covenant Metropolitan Community Church telling her about an Interfaith AIDS church service at Woodlawn United Methodist Church. -
A Letter to Deby Wright from AIDS Chaplain Malcolm Marler about Friday Morning Grace
A letter from the Rev. Malcolm Marler at the 1917 AIDS Clinic to Deby Wright, paster at the Covenant Metropolitan Community Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He is inviting her to the Friday Morning Grace program at the clinic and detailing out the planned schedule for the class. He also explains how she can make reservations to attend. There is a personal note at the bottom from Malcolm offering prayers for the death of a man named Cliff. -
A Photo of Frank Romanowicz in front of Agape House
A black and white digitization of a photo from a 1992 issue of the Birmingham Post Herald of AIDS volunteer and activist Frank Romanowicz in front of the Agape House. -
A photo of Morton Hall from the front taken from the greenspace between Morton Hall and Frank Franz residence hall
Morton Hall is located at 1310 Ben Graves Dr NW, Huntsville. It was the first building built on what would become the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus. This photo was taken after the 2020 remodeling and expansion of Morton Hall -
A picture of a diagram of an early decorative Wardian Case.
A picture of a diagram of an early decorative Wardian Case designed featured in Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward's published book on the subject. The decorative case would not be used for long range plant transportation, but instead as a self-contained decoration, -
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A Picture of the Agape House from the Birmingham Post Herald
A digitization of a picture of the Agape House in Birmingham, Alabama before renovations started to turn it into a special AIDS housing unit. -
A picture of the unpublished manuscript “On a new and practical form of voltaic battery of the highest powers, in which potassium forms the positive element” (first page)
This manuscript was created by John Goodman in 1846-7. The paper goes over the creation of potassium in a unique battery arrangement consisting of sulfuric acid, platinum, crude oil, potassium, and copper wire. The author finds that the battery is able to produce current but is unable to get rid of the batteries instability. -
A picture of the unpublished manuscript “On a new and practical form of voltaic battery of the highest powers, in which potassium forms the positive element” (last page)
This manuscript was created by John Goodman in 1846-7. The paper goes over the creation of potassium in a unique battery arrangement consisting of sulfuric acid, platinum, crude oil, potassium, and copper wire. The author finds that the battery is able to produce current but is unable to get rid of the batteries instability.