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Category Archives: Photograph Collections
Chronicling UA’s First Steps Toward Desegregation
Sixty years ago, the first major step was made toward desegregating the University of Alabama. Autherine Lucy, a black woman from Shiloh, Alabama, was enrolled – and a few days later suspended, eventually expelled, though she had done nothing wrong. … Continue reading
CSS Alabama, Part III
By: Kevin Ray, Archival Technician This post is the third of three posts in a week-long series describing the history of the CSS Alabama and the resources available in the Division of Special Collections on both this ship and the naval … Continue reading
CSS Alabama, Part II
By: Kevin Ray, Archival Technician This post is the second of three posts in a week-long series describing the history of the CSS Alabama and the resources available in the Division of Special Collections on both this ship and the naval … Continue reading
Walter B. Jones in World War I
By: Patrick Adcock, JD and W.S. Hoole Library Archival Technician On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 the armistice between the Allied powers and Germany went into effect ending the combat operations of … Continue reading
Fans, Band and Cheers! Roll Tide!
Well, it’s that time of year again — campus is buzzing with excitement following the season opener of Alabama football vs. Michigan in Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. This image, from our University of Alabama photographs, and featured in Acumen, shows … Continue reading
Vintage Kicks, Vintage Hardwood
This cool and mysterious photograph is of the feet of the 1964 University of Alabama basketball team, part of the University of Alabama photographs collections. The vintage hardwood is Foster Auditorium, where Men’s basketball played before the days of Coleman … Continue reading
Year-Round Costumed Fun
From a family production of the HMS Pinafore ca. 1899 (Perkins Family Papers) and an interpretation of “clouds” from the May Festival, 1928, Tuscaloosans don’t just wear costumes on Halloween!
Costumed Kids and Co-Eds!
Educational Media Photographs, ca. early 1960s, Hoole Special Collections Library A Jester and a Fairy, ca. 1900. Perkins Family Papers, Hoole Special Collections Library Halloween Party at UA, ca. early 1950s, The George Nichols Photographic Collection, Hoole Special Collections Library … Continue reading
The Crimson Tide in 1917
This beautiful image of the Crimson Tide football team from 1917 is taken from a glass negative taken by the Geologist Eugene Allen Smith and is accessible in our digital collections. And while things with regard to football have grown … Continue reading
Now that they’ve seen Paree!
It was 122 years ago this week, on March 31, 1889, that the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by the tower’s designer, Gustave Eiffel. Among the dignitaries were the French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard … Continue reading