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• Banking
  • AmSouth Bancorporation
  • AmSouth Merger
  • Banking Industry in Alabama
  • Booker T. Washington Business College
  • Brown Belle Bottling Company
  • Robert Hugh Daniel
  • First National Bank of Huntsville
  • A.G. Gaston Spelling Bee
  • A. G. Gaston Motel
  • A. G. Gaston
  • A. G. Gaston
  • Lehman Brothers
  • Lehman, Durr & Co., ca. 1874
  • Emanuel Lehman
  • Mayer Lehman
  • Penny Savings Bank
  • Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham
  • Regions Center
  • Regions Financial Corporation
  • Regions-AmSouth Merger
  • SouthTrust Operations Center in Homewood
  • Mervyn H. Sterne
• Communications
  • Mother Angelica
  • Mother Angelica at EWTN Studio
  • Mother Angelica and Archbishop Toolen
  • Mother Angelica at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
  • Eternal Word Television Network
  • Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN)
  • Mother Angelica
  • St. Peter's Fishing Lures
• Construction
  • Winton M. Blount Jr.
  • Robert Hugh Daniel
  • Robert Hugh Daniel
  • A. G. Gaston
  • Horace King
  • Winton M. Blount and Dick Cheney
• Economy
  • Poverty in Alabama
  • Prairie Farms Resettlement Community
• Extractive Industries
  • Alabama Oil and Gas Regions
  • Banner Mine Tragedy of 1911
  • Birmingham Coal Mine, 1908
  • Birmingham Coal Miners
  • Birmingham Coal Miners, 1937
  • Birmingham Coal Strike, 1933
  • Birmingham District Coal Strike of 1908
  • William Phineas Browne
  • William Phineas Browne
  • Cecil Browne
  • Citronelle Oil Field
  • Coal Mining
  • Coal Train
  • Convict-Lease System
  • Crushed Stone at Vulcan Materials Company Site
  • DeBardeleben Coal Mines
  • Enoch Ensley
  • Enoch Ensley
  • Erskine Ramsay Guards, 1894
  • Extractive Industries
  • Gas Rig in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Gold Panning in Chilton County
  • Gold Production in Alabama
  • Guard at a Coal Mining Company Town
  • Jim Walter Mine
  • Louisville and Nashville Train Depot in Mobile
  • Marble Industry
  • Marble Polishing at Alabama Marble in Sylagauga
  • Oil and Gas Industry in Alabama
  • Pratt Company Mining Camp
  • Chesley Pruet and Dudley Hughes
  • David Roberts
  • Walter Sistrunk
  • Slope Mine in Jefferson County
  • Sylacauga Marble Operation, ca. 1930s
  • Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co.
  • Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad (TCI)
  • William Tucker
  • Vulcan Materials Company
  • Vulcan Materials Company Site
  • Willard Warner
  • Iron and Steel Production in Alabama Multimedia
• Food Products
  • Agriculture in Alabama
  • Alabama Peach Industry
  • Beef Cattle Industry
  • Bottling Machinery, mid-1960s
  • Buffalo Rock Bottling Line, ca. 1928
  • Buffalo Rock Company
  • Buffalo Rock Company
  • Community-Supported Agriculture
  • Food Production in Alabama
  • Hartselle Farm with Chickens
  • Inland Shrimp Culture in Alabama
  • Jack's Family Restaurants
  • James Lee, Sidney Lee, and Sidney Lee Jr., ca. 1894
  • James Lee Jr. and James Lee III
  • Organic Farming
  • Peanut Production in Alabama
  • Pecan Industry in Alabama
  • Poultry Industry in Alabama
  • Rice and Bean Company in Mobile
• Health Care
  • Black Hospital Movement in Alabama
  • Bryce Hospital
  • Bryce Hospital
  • Bryce Hospital (Alabama Insane Hospital)
  • Bryce Hospital Bedroom
  • Bryce Hospital Laundry
  • Bryce Hospital Patient Ward
  • Bryce Hospital Staff Meeting
  • City of St. Jude
  • Joseph Volker, Frank Rose, and Tinsley Harrison
  • Hill-Burton Act
  • Hillman Hospital
  • Hillman Hospital
  • Thomas T. Hillman
  • Hospital at City of St. Jude
  • Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA)
  • Original Hillman Hospital
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
  • University of South Alabama (USA)
• Insurance
  • Entrance to Protective Life
  • Drayton Nabers Jr.
  • Protective Life Building, ca. 1927
  • Protective Life Corporation
  • Protective Life Employees
• Labor
  • Alabama AFL-CIO
  • Alabama AFL-CIO
  • Alabama Sharecroppers Union
  • Center for Labor Education
  • Cotton Mill Workers' Housing
  • Gadsden Times Reports Strike
  • General Textile Strike of 1934
  • International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers in Alabama
  • Mill Workers' Hats
  • Mining Labor
  • Organized Labor in Alabama
  • Barney Weeks
• Manufacturing
  • ACIPCO Employees
  • ACIPCO Iron Production
  • ACIPCO Water Pipes in Washington, D.C.
  • Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company (ADDSCO)
  • American Cast Iron Pipe Company
  • American Cast Iron Pipe Company (ACIPCO)
  • Ares I Rocket
  • Avondale Mills
  • Avondale Mills
  • Avondale Night School
  • Bessie Mine Laborers
  • Birmingham Iron and Steel Companies
  • Casting Area at Sloss Furnaces
  • Child Workers at an Avondale Mill
  • Donald Comer
  • Daniel Pratt Gin Company 1898
  • Henry DeBardeleben
  • Delta IV Rocket
  • John Joseph Eagan
  • Flow-control Gate Valve
  • Fones McCarthy Cotton Gin
  • Fones McCarthy Patent Drawing
  • High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
  • Historic Furnaces at Tannehill
  • Hyundai Factory in Montgomery
  • Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama
  • Iron and Steel Production in Birmingham
  • Irondale Ore Mine
  • Ironmaster
  • Little Cahaba Iron Works
  • Little Cahaba Iron Works (Brighthope)
  • Fones McCarthy
  • Abner McGehee
  • Mercedes-Benz U.S. International Inc. (MBUSI)
  • Mill School at Avondale
  • Mill Workers at Avondale
  • Molten Iron from a Sloss Furnace
  • Hugh Morrow
  • Pratt Company Advertisement, 1856
  • Pratt Gin Company Factory
  • Daniel Pratt
  • Daniel Pratt
  • Daniel Pratt
  • Ruins of Brierfield Iron Works
  • Selma Ordnance and Naval Foundry
  • Shelby Iron Works
  • Slag Pile at Sloss Furnaces
  • Sloss Company Workers Quarters
  • Sloss Furnace, Pig Iron Production
  • Sloss Furnaces
  • Sloss Furnaces
  • John Newton Smith
  • Steam-powered McCarthy Gin
  • Stockham Valves and Fittings
  • Moses Stroup
  • Tannehill Ironworks
  • Tannehill Ironworks
  • The Rise of Sloss Furnaces Company
  • Horace Ware
  • Horace Ware
  • Waterman Globe
  • Waterman Globe at the Mitchell Center
  • Waterman Steamship
  • Waterman Steamship Corporation
  • Waterman Steamship Headquarters
  • John B. Waterman
  • Woodstock Iron Company Certificate
  • ADDSCO Multimedia
    • ADDSCO Docks on Pinto Island
    • ADDSCO Founder D. R. Dunlap
    • ADDSCO Welders
    • African American ADDSCO Workers
    • Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company
    • Construction of the Bankhead Tunnel
    • Liberty Ship USS Fort Laramie at ADDSCO
    • Liberty Ship at ADDSCO
    • The Arickaree at ADDSCO
    • Women Welders, ca. 1944
  • Birmingham Iron and Steel Companies Multimedia
    • Birmingham Steel Worker Housing
    • Eureka Furnace
    • Miners in Birmingham, 1937
    • Sipsey Mine Workers 1913
    • Sloss Blast Furnace
    • Sloss Furnace
    • James W. Sloss
    • Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company
    • TCI's Steelworks in Ensley
    • U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company
    • U.S. Steel Fairfield Works
    • Woodward Iron Company
    • Woodward Iron Furnace
  • Stockham Valves and Fittings Multimedia
    • Brass Foundry Room
    • Brass Foundry Workers
    • Malleable Foundry Molder
    • Molten Iron Transport
    • Stockham Electric Furnace
    • Stockham Valves
    • Stockham Valves and Fittings
    • Herbert Stockham
    • William H. Stockham
• Media
  • Alabama Filmmakers Co-op
  • Anniston Star Building
  • Anniston Star Lobby
  • Anniston Star Press
  • Tallulah Bankhead
  • Jack Bethea
  • The Birmingham News
  • Buford Boone
  • Braxton Bragg
  • Rick Bragg
  • John Breckinridge
  • Bozeman Bulger
  • Pat Buttram
  • Edward Cabaniss
  • Nell Carter
  • Clarence Cason
  • James Saxon Childers
  • Erwin Craighead
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Erwin Craighead
  • Fannie Flagg
  • John Forsyth Jr.
  • John Forsyth Jr.
  • Martha Sawyer Gielow
  • Sara Haardt
  • Victor Hanson
  • Paul Hemphill
  • The Americanization of Emily
  • The Americanization of Emily
  • William Bradford Huie
  • William Bradford Huie
  • William Bradford Huie
  • William Bradford Huie and the Emmett Till Murder 2 of 2
  • William Bradford Huie and the Emmett Till Murder 1 of 2
  • Infantry Volunteers
  • Andrew N. Johnson
  • Rheta Grimsley Johnson
  • Dean Jones
  • George Lindsey
  • Lura Craighead
  • Harold Eugene Martin
  • John Trotwood Moore (aka Betsy Trotwood, Trotwood)
  • Jim Nabors
  • Theodore O'Hara
  • Old Birmingham News Building
  • Opening of New Birmingham News Building
  • Erik Overbey
  • Marie Bankhead Owen
  • Franklin Pierce
  • Howell Raines
  • Howell Raines
  • Howell Raines at Birmingham-Southern College, 2002
  • Rufus N. Rhodes
  • Elise Ayers Sanguinetti
  • Segregated Streetcar
  • Hazel Brannon Smith
  • Southern Farmer Newspaper
  • Southern Progress Corporation
  • The Anniston Star
  • The Birmingham News
  • The Execution of Private Slovik
  • The Mobile Press-Register
  • Three Lives for Mississippi
  • Amelia Tilghman
  • Amelia Tilghman
  • Cynthia Tucker
  • Earl Lee Tucker
  • Lella Warren
  • Mobile Press-Register Multimedia
    • Ralph B. Chandler
    • Mobile Press-Register
    • Mobile Press-Register Pressroom
    • Mobile Register, ca. 1920
    • Old Mobile Press-Register Press
    • John L. Rapier
    • Julian Lee 'Judy' Rayford
• Music
  • Alabama (Music Group)
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Delmore Brothers
  • Denson Brothers
  • Denson Family
  • Paine Denson
  • Adele 'Vera' Hall Ward
  • Emmylou Harris
  • Erskine Hawkins
  • Roger Hawkins and George Lawrence
  • David Hood and Reggie Young
  • Clayton Ivey
  • Louvin Brothers
  • Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (MSRS)
  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
  • Wilson Pickett
  • Sacred Harp Singing
  • Sam Phillips
  • Hank Williams Sr.
• Retailing
  • Belk Department Store
  • Hugh Bentley
  • Books-A-Million
  • Parisian Department Store 1928
  • Parisian Department Store 1939
  • Parisian Department Stores
  • Parisian Motorcycles
  • Parisian at Brookwood Village
  • Stock at the Unclaimed Baggage Center
  • Unclaimed Baggage Center
  • Unclaimed Baggage Center (UBC)
• Service Industries
  • Barbecue, Alabama Style
  • Andrew N. Johnson
  • Mobile Morrison's Cafeteria, 1967
  • Morrison's Cafeteria, 1945
  • Morrison's Cafeterias
  • Piccadilly Cafeteria 2003
• Space
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Olin King
  • Olin King
  • Marshall Space Flight Center
  • SCI Systems, Inc.
  • U.S. Space & Rocket Center
  • Wernher von Braun
• Tourism
  • Agri-tourism in Alabama
  • Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo
  • Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF)
  • Alabama Tourism Department (ATD)
  • Ave Maria Grotto
  • Azalea Trail
  • Chattahoochee Poochie
  • Hank Williams Trail
  • Historic Chattahoochee Commission (HCC)
  • McWane Science Center
  • Miller's Pottery
  • North Alabama Birding Trail
  • Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
  • The Year of Alabama Arts
  • Vacation Guide
  • Vulcan Statue and Vulcan Park
• Transportation
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Airports in Alabama
  • Alabama Railroads
  • Louisville & Nashville Railroad
  • Daniel Pratt
  • Steamboats in Alabama
  • Airports in Alabama Multimedia
    • Bates Field Airport 1946
    • Birmingham Airport
    • Birmingham Airport Original Terminal
    • Birmingham Fairgrounds Air Show 1912
    • Birmingham Municipal Airport
    • Birmingham- Shuttlesworth International Airport
    • Birmingham- Shuttlesworth International Airport
    • Montgomery Municipal Airport 1930
    • Montgomery Regional Airport
    • Old Bates Field Airport
    • Roberts Field
    • Roberts Field Airport
  • Alabama Railroads Multimedia
    • City of Miami at Sloss Furnaces, 1950
    • Conecuh Valley Railroad in Troy
    • Frisco Railroad in Walker County, ca. 1914
    • Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum
    • L&N Diesel in Birmingham, ca. 1950
    • L&N Railroad in Baldwin County
    • Memphis & Charleston Railroad, ca. 1890
    • John Turner Milner
    • Charles Pollard
    • Railroad Tracks in Montgomery, ca. 1894
    • Southern Railway Advertisement
    • Train Ferry across the Tallapoosa River
    • Wiregrass Central Railroad in Enterprise
• Utilities
  • Braxton Bragg Comer (1907-11)
  • Alabama Power Company
  • Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant
  • Interstate Water Disputes
  • Thomas Martin
  • Mayer Electric Supply Company
  • Mayer Electric Supply Company
  • Mayer Electric Supply Employees
  • Original Mayer Electric Supply Building
  • Tennessee Valley Authority in Alabama (TVA)
  • Ben S. Weil
  • Alabama Power Multimedia
    • Alabama Power Building, 1925
    • Bankhead Lock and Dam
    • E. C. Gaston Steam Plant
    • Joe Farley
    • Gorgas Steam Plant
    • Harris Dam
    • Elmer Harris
    • Jordan Dam
    • William Patrick Lay
    • Thomas W. Martin at Lock 18 Site
    • Charles D. McCrary
    • James Mitchell
    • Original Gorgas Steam Plant