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  • spc_bens_000001.pdf

    John Bensko, Jr. is seated in the center of the front row.
  • img_00603.pdf

    Front: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00607.pdf

    Front: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
    Back: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00325.pdf

    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.
  • img_00327.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala. 50,000,000 gals. Daily.
    Back: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala. 50,000,000 gals. Daily.
  • img_00329.pdf

    Front: Big Spring Huntsville, Ala. One Million Gallons per Hour.
  • img_00333.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala. 24,000,000 Gallons Per Day. M. R. Murray
  • img_00343.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring. Capacity 20,000,000 Gallons Daily.
  • img_00345.pdf

    Front: Huntsville "Big Spring," Capacity, 20,000,000 Gallons Daily, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00359.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring - Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00361.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring - Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00369.pdf

    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.
  • img_00373.pdf

    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.
  • img_00375.pdf

    Front: Big Spring, Huntsville's Water Supply, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00377.pdf

    Front: A close-up View of the Big Spring, Daily capacity 24,000,000 Gallons, Huntsville, Alabama.
    Back: View of the Big Spring from which Huntsville secures its water supply.
  • img_00379.pdf

    Front: Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00381.pdf

    Front: A Close Up View of the Big Spring, Huntsville, Alabama
    Capacity of Spring 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 Biq Spring, and it was from this pioneer that Huntsville takes its name.
  • img_00383.pdf

    Back: THE BIG SPRING, Huntsville, Alabama. Located near the center of town, this spring furnished all the city's water supply from its earliest days until recent years. It formed the nucleus for the South's first - and the nation's second - public waterworks system. Now world famous.
  • img_00385.pdf

    Back: The Big Spring - a great watering spot for Indians and later pioneers heading West - was the reason for HUNTSVILLE'S founding more than 150 years ago. It was here that President James Monroe attended ceremonies admitting Alabama into Statehood in 1819. The mother of seven Governors and Rebel Raider, Gen. John Hunt Morgan, Huntsville is today best known as a center of the nation's guided missile development program at Redstone Arsenal.
  • img_00389.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Alabama
    Back: THE BIG SPRING, HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Located in the heart of town at the base of a rock wall of some sixty feet. This spring has an output of approximately 23,000,000 gallons daily. It is a world famous landmark.
  • img_00135.pdf

    Back: HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA. The Big Spring with the Madison County Courthouse in the background.
  • img_00293.pdf

    Front: The Big Spring, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00147.pdf

    Back: THE BIG SPRING, Huntsville, Alabama. Located near the center of town, this spring furnished all the city's water supply from its earliest days until recent years. It formed the nucleus for the South's first - and the nation's second - public waterworks system. Now world famous.
  • img_00647.pdf

    Front: The Bradley Home at Merrimack - Huntsville, Ala. - The Burns Home.
  • img_00655.pdf

    Front: The Bradley Home at Merrimack - The Burns Home - Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00839.pdf

    Back: The Burritt Mansion at Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum. Built by Dr. William Henry Burritt for his retirement home atop Round Top Mountain with a commanding view of the City of Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley. Completed in 1938, the house is insulated with 2200 bales of wheat straw.
  • img_00579.pdf

    Front: The Butler Training School, Huntsville, Ala.
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    A chapel within the Tower of London. This is where the most famous prisoners of the tower were buried after their executions. Katherine Howard was one of three queens buried here.
  • img_00945.pdf

    Front: The Charles Motel, Huntsville, Ala., 2 Miles North of By-pass, on U.S. Highways 231 & 431.
    Back: THE Charles MOTEL, THE Charles RESTAURANT, Huntsville, Alabama.
    Owned & Operated by Mr. & Mrs. L.D. Miller, Phone JEfferson 6-2524, P.O. Address: Meridianvllle, Alabama
  • img_00531.pdf

    Front: The Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, Ala.
  • http://dkdayton.net/roberts/images/r04a/pdfs/r04a22-21.pdf
  • http://dkdayton.net/roberts/images/r02h/pdfs/r02h01-08.pdf
  • The Cuca 24 1894.pdf

    This is an article and illustration of the third edition of the Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup
  • The Cuca Cup Race and its Moral 1894.pdf

    This is an article about the Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup and goes into the race, eventually describing how Shorland's bicycle made a difference to the end result of the race.
  • The Cuca Race 1892.pdf

    This is a page from the scrapbook that contains part of article about the Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup race and the hour by hour breakdown of the 1893 race.
  • img_00499.pdf

    Front: The Daily Times Building, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00501.pdf

    Front: The Daily Times Building, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00677.pdf

    Front: The Dallas Mills, Huntsville, Ala.
  • img_00683.pdf

    Front: The Dallas Mills, Huntsville, Ala.
  • loc_gold_000300_000300.pdf

    This handwritten note provides information on the death and burial place of Henry Goldsmith, Oscar's older brother, who was born in 1840. The note reads: "Henry Goldsmith - was a member of Co D - 4 [sic] Infantry - died in Huntsville Ala. Jany 6/17, was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery Marker No. 295 was placed on his grave - He was a member of Egbert J. Jones Camp.
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