UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives

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  • Sports-Baseball-Dallas_Baseball_Team_1930_B_v1 - Copy.jpg

    The Dallas Manufacturing Company baseball team played for Dallas Mills. Their home field was at Dallas (Optimist) Park.
  • 2025-03-23_13-09-14.jpg

    The Dr. Peppers was a softball team in the Dallas Mills community. The team played from 1937 to 1943. Coach Cecil V. Fain on far right.
  • 2025-03-23_13-09-40.jpg

    The Dr. Peppers was a softball team in the Dallas Mills community. The team played from 1937 to 1943. Far right is Doris Layne Pike, the rest of the women are unknown.
  • Packing Tea.png

    This early 19th-century coloured lithograph, titled A tea plantation in China: workers tread down congou tea into chests, portrays laborers preparing tea for export in a vivid and detailed scene. The anonymous artwork reflects the global demand for Chinese tea and the intensive manual labor behind its production during the height of international trade.
  • west_florida_table.JPG

    A Photo of Reference to the Land Surveyed on the Rivers Mobile and Alabama since the Establishment of the Civil Government in the Province of West Florida.
  • Mills-Dallas-Burning.jpg

    Dallas Mill was set on fire on July 24, 1991 by a serial arsonist. This is an image of the burning, with people in Huntsville watching in the middle of the night.
  • Frances-Roberts-4A-Box19-Folder1-Obj1-001.pdf

    This booklet was likely created by the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce to promote the city of Huntsville at the beginning of the twentieth century. The descriptions of Huntsville present the city as progressive, beautiful, and actively growing in population and industry. Advertisements for local businesses are also promoted throughout the booklet. This booklet was distributed nationwide to attract more investment in the city of Huntsville.
  • hsvatdawn20century_1901_Roberts_4A_Box19_F1_O1.Jpeg

    This is the title page for a 1901 promotional booklet for the city of Huntsville and local businesses. The title of the booklet is "Huntsville at the Dawn of the 20th Century" and presents Huntsville as a progressive town with great business potential.
  • CCCC Picture with Shorland 1892.pdf

    This source is a page from the source scrapbook this project used but shows a photograph of the Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup with brief description. Also on this page is a print source with a statement from Shorland describing how he used Cuca Cocoa and enjoys the chocolate they make.
  • spc_mcca_000259-266.pdf

    The newsletter includes multiple articles describing the growth of the UAH, including cultural events, new faculty appointments, and faculty activities. Also included is a list of events happening on the main University of Alabama campus in November 1967.