alabama

Christ Episcopal Church, 605 Twenty-fifth Avenue, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloo...

Significance: Established January 7, 1828, Christ Church is the second oldest Episcopal congregation in Alabama. / Portions of the present Gothic style structure date to the original 1829 sanctuary. Interior f... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Operations Building, Idaho at Alabama...

Significance: During the Cold War, Building 2712 housed the base operations center and was used for monitoring and overseeing all flight operations. In addition, the building housed weather observation and admi... More

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Base Operations Building, Idaho at Alabama...

Significance: During the Cold War, Building 2712 housed the base operations center and was used for monitoring and overseeing all flight operations. In addition, the building housed weather observation and admi... More

David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...

David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More

David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...

David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More

David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...

David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More

David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...

David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More

Sanford-Thompson House, 1621 Spring Hill Avenue, Mobile, Mobile County...

Public domain photograph of house, residential property, home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Alabama University march - Public domain sheet music. Piano, marc...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Atkinson-Till House, State Highway 59, Tensaw, Baldwin County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-116 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louisville Daily Union Press, [newspaper]. April 17th, 1865.

Black mourning border employed.

Governor Thomas Bibb House, County Road 71, Belle Mina, Limestone Coun...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-5 Survey number: HABS AL-303 Building/structure dates: 1826 Initial Construction

Magnolia Grove, State Highway 25, Dayton, Marengo County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-153 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 94000687

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 24th, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain periodicals page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Decree in Batterton v. Batterton et al, [Law papers].

Appears to be in Lincoln's hand. Summary: David Batterton died with a will that appointed his widow, Nancy Batterton, as executrix of his 160-acre estate. Nancy Batterton retained Logan and Lincoln and petition... More

Mobile Light No. 6639, Mobile Bay, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Significance: Constructed entirely of wood and resting on metal piles in the middle of Mobile Bay, the design and materials used for construction of this lighthouse are unusual. / The Mobile, or "Middle Bay," L... More

Old Tavern, County Road 24, Allenton, Wilcox County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-191 Building/structure dates: ca. 1828 Initial Construction

James Ellington House, Oak Bowery Road vicinity, Gold Hill, Lee County...

Survey number: HABS AL-581 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

Judge William Harrison Walker House, 309 East Clinton Street, Athens, ...

Survey number: HABS AL-371 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tallassee Mills, 1844 Old Mill Road, Tallassee, Elmore County, AL

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: During the late 19th century, this was among the largest cotton textile manufacturing complexes in the South. It was the second mill in Alabama t... More

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Malleable Annealing Building, 4000 T...

Survey number: HAER AL-49-J Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Complete map of the march of the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Divn., Dept....

Ms. (pencil drawings). Title from front end paper. Includes select landowners. Label mounted on cover: Treasurer of the Confederate States in account with Wm. Thomas Hardy, Capt. & Asst. Qr M., C.S.P.A. Stateme... More

Complete map of the march of the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Divn., Dept....

Ms. (pencil drawings). Title from front end paper. Includes select landowners. Label mounted on cover: Treasurer of the Confederate States in account with Wm. Thomas Hardy, Capt. & Asst. Qr M., C.S.P.A. Stateme... More

Complete map of the march of the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Divn., Dept....

Ms. (pencil drawings). Title from front end paper. Includes select landowners. Label mounted on cover: Treasurer of the Confederate States in account with Wm. Thomas Hardy, Capt. & Asst. Qr M., C.S.P.A. Stateme... More

Complete map of the march of the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Divn., Dept....

Ms. (pencil drawings). Title from front end paper. Includes select landowners. Label mounted on cover: Treasurer of the Confederate States in account with Wm. Thomas Hardy, Capt. & Asst. Qr M., C.S.P.A. Stateme... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

Prattville Manufacturing Company, Number One, 242 South Court Street, ...

Significance: Founded in 1846, the Prattville Manufacturing Company was one of the South's earliest textile mills. A spinning and weaving operation from its inception, the original factory was razed when the o... More

King Plantation, Frank Street, Talladega, Talladega County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-462 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern Ductile Casting Company, Casting, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Besse...

Survey number: HAER AL-125-D Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Rocket (Missile) Test Stand, Do...

Significance: The Redstone Interim Test Stand, in use from 1953 to 1961, was developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and associates to test the Redstone rocket propulsion system. Constructed for $25,000 out of mate... More

High Line Railroad, From Red Mountain to Fairfield Works, Birmingham, ...

Survey number: HAER AL-86 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Kenworthy Hall, State Highway 14 (Greensboro Road), Marion, Perry Coun...

Significance: Late in his life, Edward Kenworthy Carlisle sought to build a house which would reflect his stature as a plantation owner, cotton factor, and commissions merchant in the prosperous Black Belt comm... More

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Passenger Terminal, Beauregard Street & ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Passenger Terminal, Beauregard Street & ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeremiah Clemens to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, January 21, 1865 (Poli...

Mobile Alabama Citizens Meeting, May 10, 1814

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Joseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...

Summary: Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), t... More

[Letter transmitting joint resolutions in relation to transportation b...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 17.

William B. Crumpton Bridge, Spanning Tombigbee River on Alabama State ...

Survey number: HAER AL-205 Building/structure dates: after 1989 Demolished

Alexander-Hurt-Whatley House, County Road 10 (Old Columbus Highway), T...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-46 Survey number: HABS AL-560 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

United States Nitrate Plant No. 2, Reservation Road, Muscle Shoals, Mu...

Significance: Production of Ammonium Nitrate. / Built as a war measure for the production of ammonium nitrate, a key component in high explosives, U.S.N.P. No. 2 became one of the largest plants of its kind wit... More

Tacon-Gordon House, 1216 Government Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HABS AL-848

Forks of Cypress, Savannah Road (Jackson Road), Florence, Lauderdale C...

Survey number: HABS AL-375 Building/structure dates: 1818-1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97001166

Shackelford-McCrary-Otts House, 901 Centreville Street, Greensboro, Ha...

Survey number: HABS AL-274 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1896 Subsequent Work

U. S. Post Office Building, Saint Joseph & Saint Michael Streets, Mobi...

Significance: This building is an excellent example of the eclectic classical revival style often employed for civic structures in the early twentieth century. Survey number: HABS AL-797 Building/structure da... More

[Old Eastern Bank, Eufaula, Alabama]

10053A Caption on item: On the iron steps of this building, then the the Eastern Bank of Alabama, at Eufaula, a group of ignorant Negroes, led by a carpetbagger, plotted the sacking of the town. Overheard by a... More

Buffalo Commerical Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 17, 1865.

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1 and all f...

Judge John Bragg House, 1906 Spring Hill Avenue, Mobile, Mobile County...

Survey number: HABS AL-30 Building/structure dates: 1827 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1847 Subsequent Work

Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...

Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More

East Alabama Masonic Female Institute, 205 East South Street, Talladeg...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

East Alabama Masonic Female Institute, 205 East South Street, Talladeg...

Public domain photograph of living room, apartment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

East Alabama Masonic Female Institute, 205 East South Street, Talladeg...

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More

Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More

Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...

Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More

Farmer's Loan & Trust Co. vs. Great Western Railroad Company, [Law Pap...

Summary: In 1853, the Great Western Railroad Company borrowed $1,000,000 and issued bonds in various denominations to pay back the loan. To secure these bonds, the Great Western Railroad issued a deed trust tra... More

Kelley-Bland-Ward House, County Road 2 vicinity, Orrville, Dallas Coun...

Survey number: HABS AL-755 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern Hotel, 53-65 Water Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-12 Survey number: HABS AL-11 Building/structure dates: 1837 Initial Construction

United States Pipe & Foundry Company Plant, Pipe Casting & Testing Are...

Survey number: HAER AL-32-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas By-Product Coke Works, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomas, Jefferso...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomas By-Product Coke Works, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomas, Jefferso...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas By-Product Coke Works, 1200 Tenth Street West, Thomas, Jefferso...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington Street Downtown Corridor, Washington Street between Alabama...

Significance: Washington Street is the National Road, or U.S. 40, as it passes through Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. This major commercial artery is home to many important nineteenth and twentieth cent... More

Union---Extra. Saturday May 23, 1846. From the Mobile Daily advertiser...

Mexican war. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 10.

Speech of General Prentiss, Delivered in Chicago, October 21. Life in ...

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Cleveland Sellers oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in ...

Summary: Cleveland Sellers shares memories of growing up in Denmark, South Carolina, especially the influence of Voorhees College in the community. He organized a Youth Chapter of the National Association for t... More

Gaineswood, 805 South Cedar Street, Demopolis, Marengo County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS AL-211 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Subsequent Work National R... More

Deeds for land in Alabama, 1833-1834

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Stre...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57 Survey number: HABS AL-766 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Perry County Court House, Square bounded by State Highway 5, Main Stre...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57 Survey number: HABS AL-766 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Courtview, 505 North Court Street, University of North Alabama Campus,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27, FN-28 Survey number: HABS AL-329 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000415

Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron, First Avenue North Viaduct at Thirty-sec...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Sloss Company's city furnaces, built in what is now the center of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1881-1882, produced pig iron for the foundry market until their clos... More

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territ...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territ...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territ...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The emigrant's guide to the western and southwestern states and territ...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Anne Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in...

Anne Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeti... More

Anne Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in...

Anne Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeti... More

Anne Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in...

Anne Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeti... More

Anne Pearl Avery oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in...

Anne Pearl Avery remembers her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at age sixteen. She recalls attending a SNCC meeti... More

Christ Episcopal Church, Church & Saint Emanuel Streets, Mobile, Mobil...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Rosemount, County Road 19, Forkland, Greene County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-212 Building/structure dates: 1832 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000099

Rosemount, County Road 19, Forkland, Greene County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-212 Building/structure dates: 1832 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000099

Jenkins Brick Company, Plant No. 2, Furnace Street, Montgomery, Montgo...

Significance: The most distinctive feature of the site today is the set of twelve remaining Minter System down draft kilns. Constructed in 1923, 1925, and 1941, the kilns are part of a waste-heat reuse system ... More

Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Significance: The site was acquired by Daniel Pratt in 1838, and he soon established grist and lumber and shingle mills there. By 1844, he had opened a cotton gin plant, the products of which were in great dem... More

Continental Gin Company, Prattville, Autauga County, AL

Significance: The site was acquired by Daniel Pratt in 1838, and he soon established grist and lumber and shingle mills there. By 1844, he had opened a cotton gin plant, the products of which were in great dem... More

Belmont, U.S. Highway 43, Spring Valley, Colbert County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS AL-388

Belmont, U.S. Highway 43, Spring Valley, Colbert County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS AL-388

Belmont, U.S. Highway 43, Spring Valley, Colbert County, AL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS AL-388

Woodward House, 4101 Altamont Road, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Significance: The principal residence of the owner of a major Birmingham producer of foundry iron, the estate is the most fully realized and intact example of estate architecture and landscape architecture in t... More

Letter from Giles S. Thomas to Thomas Family, January 30, 1864

number of pages: 8 p.