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Alan Turing's office
Alan Turing's office at Hut 8, Bletchley Park. Depicts his desk, various wall decorations, and a filing cabinet. -
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
A portion of the text of "Computing machinery and intelligence" by Alan Turing, which posed the question "can machines think" and proposed the Turing test. -
Ruth Heimburg with her children Ruth Marie and Klaus circa 1959.
Ruth and her two older children traveling. Location and destination unknown; either going to or from German and Huntsville, Alabama. -
Typed letter in Deutsch from Ruth Heimburg to her Father, April 1949.
This image is of a type-written letter by Ruth Heimburg in Deutsch. Sent from Ft. Bliss, Texas to her Father in Germany. Notably, Ruth asks her Father if her younger brother Dieter has been cooking his potato goulash as that is his "specialty." -
Hampton Court Palace Haunted Gallery
A gallery lined with 16th century paintings, including portraits of Tudor monarchs. Legend has it that when Queen Katherine Howard discovered she was being charged with adultery, she broke free from her guards stationed outside her room and ran along this route in the hope of finding King Henry in the Chapel to plead her innocence to. It is said that her ghost can still be seen running through this "Haunted Gallery," wailing for mercy. -
AIDS in Alabama in the Decatur Daily
A chart from a digitization of the Decatur Daily Newspaper showing the current number of AIDS cases in Aalabama in 1994. -
Katherine Howard's letter to Thomas Culpeper
This is the only surviving letter written by Katherine Howard. It is addressed to Thomas Culpeper, whom she was accused of having an affair with. The letter can be interpreted in many different ways, from evidence of the affair to the possibility of Katherine being blackmailed. -
Advertisement for Grand Cleaners.
Grand Cleaners, located at 801 Franklin St. SE in Huntsville, was owned and operated by Shelby and Lou Johnson. The Grand Cleaners building opened in 1947 as a state-of-the-art drycleaning facility. Sterling Travel Agency now occupies the building. -
Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup presented by Messrs. Root & Co., Ltd.
This is a pamphlet advertising the first edition of the Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup Race at Herne Hill Velodrome. It includes rules, -
Wood engraving of the first quinine tree being planted in the Neilgherry hills, India.
Cinchona plantations in the Neilgherry hills India. Sir William Denison, the governor of Madras, is planting the first tree in a new plantation for the production of quinine.