ALABAMA POSTCARD COLLECTION, Circa 1900 - Circa 2000
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ALABAMA POSTCARD COLLECTION, circa 1900 - circa 2000 Finding aid Call number: LPP45 Extent: 6 card file boxes and 1 oversized box. Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130 www.archives.alabama.gov ADAH Postcard Collection LPP45 At one time, postcards were removed from the Alabama Writers’ Project Photograph Collection, LPP1, and were filed with this collection. They have now been returned to their original collection, but remain listed here with the notation “see LPP1, Box #, Folder #.” (pm = date of postmark) Description Location Alabama Scenes [see also Subjects] “Alabama” Song with scenes Box 1 4 Alabama’s Alexandria Valley, 1890 - cotton picking Box 1 5 Painted Rock Bluff, Tennessee River, see LPP1, Box 5, Folder 3 (#1744) between Gadsden and Huntsville Spring-time in the Mountains, Apple and see LPP1, Box 3, Folder 11 (#1747) Dogwood Trees in Bloom On the Tombigbee River [cotton barges and steamboat] [pm. 1907] Box 5 1950 Wheeler Dam Box 5 1986 Beautiful Alabama, the Star of the South [souvenir packet] Box 5 2030 [Alabama highway welcome sign:] Welcome to Alabama, John Patterson, Box 6 2261 Governor Four employees of Ala. Great Southern railroad, including William Grant Box 6 2291 Crosswhite, 1913 [RPPC, postcard] Home Scene in the Alabama Gold Diggings [pm. 1906] Box 6 2317 Alabama – North Alabama is a Fun Place to Visit Box 7 3060 Alabama (with car, ca. 1940s) Box 7 3061 Autauga Co., Autaugaville, Ala. Old Asbury Church [RPPC] Box 6 2580 Autauga Co., Prattville, Ala. Baptist Church, Prattville, Ala. Box 1 6 St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Prattville, Ala. Box 1 7 Largest gin company in the world, Continental Gin Company,(2) Box 1 8 PN 2956 & 15876 Continental Gin Co. Plant [pm.191- ; postmark not completely legible] Box 6 2398 Presbyterian Church, Prattville, Ala. Box 1 9 Autauga County Court House (Oversized) Box 4 1642 Baldwin Co., Ala., Battles Wharf Cooney Island [RPPC, pm. 1911] Box 6 2591 Baldwin Co., Bay Minette, Ala. Court House Box 3 1485 Baldwin Co., Bay Minette, Ala. [continued] Baldwin County Court House Box 6 2189 Turpentine still [RPPC, pm.1914] Box 6 2491 Baldwin Co., Daphne, Ala. Home on the eastern shore Box 1 14 Main building, State Normal School Box 1 15 State Normal School (2) Box 1 16 Appreciative friends, State Normal School Box 1 17 Baldwin Co., Elberta, Ala. Street view [RPPC] Box 6 2582 Street view [RPPC] Box 6 2588 Baldwin Co., Fairhope, Ala. Public Library Box 1 18 Public Library Box 1 19 Public Library Box 1 20 Young people playing lawn tennis outside a school [RPPC, pm.1914] Box 6 2307 Street scene [Fairhope Pharmacy on corner, photo postcard, ca. 1940s] Box 6 2337 Street scene [movie theater on corner, photo postcard, ca. 1942] Box 6 2338 The Pinequat Shop. “The oldest business building in Fairhope, built in Box 6 2352 1899. Over fifty years of continuous business by original owner.” [pm. 1952] Vista view of wharf [RPPC, pm.1915] Box 6 2415 Colonial Inn Box 6 2424 Dedication, Fairhope, Ala., Public School [ca. early 1900s] Box 6 2426 The High Chute [water slide] Box 6 2427 Beautiful Winter Haven Court Box 6 2469 Harold Johnson (age 2) with wagon [RPPC] Box 6 2493 Organic Training School [RPPC, pm. 1911] Box 6 2586 Evening Entertainment on Nichols Lawn [RPPC] Box 6 2590 Group on beach [RPPC, pm. 1909] Box 6 2592 View from the bluff overlooking Mobile Bay, Fairhope, Ala. (pm. 1957) Box 7 3054 Baldwin Co., Foley, Ala. Bass fishing Box 1 21 Stream and garden Box 1 22 Rice and velvet beans, Murray’s field [RPPC, pm. 1914] Box 6 2310 Street scene [photo postcard, ca. 1940s] Box 6 2336 Cotton gin, grist mill, & rice huller [RPPC] Box 6 2397 Cutting and threshing 40 acres soy beans - Goetz Farm Box 6 2480 [RPPC, pm. 1920] Street view [RPPC] Box 6 2589 Baldwin Co., Ala., Fort Morgan The Cisterns, Old Fort Morgan Box 1 10 Old gun at Fort Morgan Box 1 11 Fort Morgan Box 6 2124 Old Spanish Fort [sepia photo, ca. 1901-1907] Box 6 2204 Target Practice, Fort Morgan, Shell from big twelve inch gun striking the Box 6 2344 water a mile or more at sea [RPPC] Old Hot Short Furnace at Fort Morgan Box 6 2565 Cotton field [RPPC] Box 7 2633 Sandcrab Island at Fort Morgan [RPPC] Box 7 2648 Fort Morgan Box 7 2733 Seven Flags over Fort Morgan Box 7 2880 Mess hall, 3rd Company, Fort Morgan [RPPC] Box 7 3005 Baldwin Co., Gulf Shores, Ala. Gulf Shores Cottages .... On Pleasure Island “Open Year Round” [pm.1954] Box 5 1905 Gulf State Park Beach [pm.1956] Box 5 1941 Ashwander Beach Cottages [ca. 1960s] Box 5 1953 Gulf State Park Convention Center [aerial view, 5 x 7] Box 5 1962 Gulf Shores [beach scene, ca. 1960s] Box 5 2083 Gulf Shores, West Beach [aerial view, ca.1990s] Box 5 2084 Greetings from Gulf Shores [souvenir packet] Box 6 2239 Roberts Beach Cottages Box 6 2252 The Beach at Gulf Shores [photo postcard, ca. 1940s] Box 6 2342 The Casino, Gulf State Park [photo postcard, ca. 1940s] Box 6 2448 Baldwin Co., Josephine, Ala. Store & P.O. [pm. 1913] Box 5 1948 Baldwin Co., Malbis, Ala. Malbis Memorial Church Box 7 3073 Baldwin Co., Miflin, Ala. Hydroplane [RPPC] Box 6 2593 Baldwin Co., Orange Beach, Ala. Sepia photo of Orange Beach, [pm.1912] Box 5 1889 Orange Beach [aerial view, pm. 2000] Box 6 2182 Sailing, Orange Beach, Ala. [RPPC] Box 6 2351 Baldwin Co., Point Clear, Ala. Point Clear Hotel Box 3 1481-1484 Zundel’s, looking south [halftone print of photo] Box 6 2363 Grand Hotel and beach [RPPC] Box 6 2409 Aerial view of Grand Hotel Box 6 2441 Baldwin Co., Silverhill, Ala. Five boys with rifles [RPPC, pm.1904] Box 6 2357 Silver Brook Farm [RPPC, pm.1907] Box 6 2502 Baldwin Co., Spanish Fort, Ala. Old Spanish Fort Tourist Village [pm. 1953] Box 6 2467 Barbour Co., Eufaula, Ala. Chattahoochee River Box 1 23 Moonlight on the Chattahoochee Box 1 24 Broad Street Box 1 25 Salter Hospital Box 1 26 Shorter Mansion Box 1 27 Soldier’s Monument Box 1 28 Broad Street (Residential section) Box 1 29 Post Office see LPP1, Box 2, Folder 7 (#1657) Broad Street Looking West see LPP1, Box 5, Folder 1 (#1658) Lakepoint Resort State Park Box 5 2100 Gilbert Home Box 6 2101 Conner-Taylor Home Box 6 2102 Barbour Co., Clayton, Ala. Confederate Monument Box 1 30 Bibb Co., Centreville, Ala. Confederate Monument Box 1 31 Blount Co., Allgood, Ala. Lime Plant of the Cheney Lime Company Box 6 2488 Bullock Co., Union Springs, Ala. Library Box 1 32 Methodist Episcopal Church Box 1 33 Main Street Box 1 34 Powell Street Box 1 35 Civil War monument and street scene [pm. 1960] Box 6 2237 Butler Co., Greenville, Ala. Home of J. E. Kendricks Box 5 1858 East end [pm. 1915] Box 6 2294 Eureka Lodge 64, marching with flags and banner [RPPC] Box 6 2457 Calhoun Co., Ala. Cotton picking (2) Box 1 36 Confederate monument Box 7 3010 Calhoun Co., Anniston, Ala., Miscellaneous Samuel Noble Monument Box 1 37 Anniston Inn Box 1 38 Carnegie Library Box 1 39 Greetings from Anniston, Ala. [souvenir packet] Box 3 1492 Greetings from Anniston, Ala. Box 6 2229 [pm. 1943, identical to cover of souvenir packet above] Grace Episcopal Church Box 5 1631 St. Michael’s and All Angels Church see LPP1, Box 2, Folder 14 (#1729) U. S. Weather Bureau see LPP1, Box 2, Folder 8 (#1730) U. S. Post Office see LPP1, Box 2, Folder 7 (#1731) Wilson Building see LPP1, Box 2, Folder 6 (#1732) The Country Club see LPP1, Box 4, Folder 12 (#1733) Swann Chemical Company’s Plant see LPP1, Box 4, Folder 2 (#1734) Noble Street Looking South see LPP1, Box 5, Folder 1 (#1735) A Beautiful Residence on Sunset Drive see LPP1, Box 4, Folder 4 (#1736) U.S. Pipe and Foundry Co. Box 5 1888 Greetings from Anniston, Ala. Box 6 2127 Aerial view of Anniston, Ala., looking north Box 6 2223 Boat House at Oxford Lake [pm. 1905] Box 6 2288 Anniston Net and Twine Mill Box 6 2301 Monsanto Chemical Co. Box 6 2402 Plant of Union Foundry Co. Box 6 2403 Noble Institute [pm. 1909] Box 6 2411 Post Office and Government Building [pm. 1913] Box 7 2754 Church of St. Michael’s and All Angels [pm. 1926] Box 7 2756 Oxford Lake Box 7 2774 Samuel Noble Monument [pm. 1951] Box 7 3070 Calhoun Co., Anniston, Ala., Fort McClellan Fort McClellan, Anniston, Ala. [souvenir packet] Box 3 1491 Main Barracks, Fort McClellan Box 5 2039 Aerial View, Fort McClellan Box 5 1632 The Swimming Pool, Fort McClellan see LPP1, Box 3, Folder 11 (#1645) If you would like to cheer me up, And tickle me all through, Just drop Box 6 2254 a line to Camp McClellan, Ala. That’s all you have to do [drawing of WWI soldier, no image of Camp McClellan, pm.1918] YMCA Truck at Camp McClellan © 1917 Box 6 2330 Colored soldiers, Fort McClellan Box 6 2348 Post Exchange, Fort McClellan [pm. 1943] Box 6 2349 The flame tank in action at the U.S. Army Chemical Center and School Box 6 2350 Fort McClellan A regimental street, Camp McClellan Box 6 2414 Reading in the Camp Library, American Library Association, Box 6 2428 Camp McClellan [WWI era] Home of the Commanding General, Camp McClellan, © 1917 Box 6 2433 Advanced infantry trainees fire the M-16 rifle on a range at Fort McClellan Box 6 2439 Field Bakery, Camp McClellan, © 1917 Box 6 2506 Enlisted White Men’s Service Club Box 6 2549 Home of commanding general at Fort McClellan [1944] Box 6 2551 Amphitheater [pm.