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  • "De Lan' O' Cotton."

    Front: "De Lan' O' Cotton."
  • "Everything is O.K ?.. In outer space!!"

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Alabama, The Space Capital. Everything is O.K ?.. In outer space!!
  • "Greetings from Huntsville, Ala. The Rocket City"

    Front: Greetings from Huntsville, Ala. The Rocket City.
    Back: Huntsville, Ala., "The Rocket City"
    Huntsville has earned the title "Rocket City" since the Army located most of its missile and rocket men at Redstone Arsenal.
  • "Greetings from Outer Space - Huntsville, Ala."

    Front: Greetings from Outer Space, Huntsville, Ala.
    Back: JUPITER-C
    left: U.S. Army JUPITER-C Missile. This rocket, developed at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville. Ala., was used to launch the free world's first scientific earth satellite, the EXPLORER.
    Right: U.S. Army JUPITER Missile. The JUPITER Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile is being developed at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville. Ala. It is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead to a distance of 1500 nautical miles.
  • "NASA'S SA-5 undergoing pre-lounch check-out."

    Back: NASA'S SA-5 undergoing pre-launch check-out. The Saturn is the free-world's largest space booster. It develops a million and a half pounds thrust. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville. Alabama, has been developing and providing rockets for our space achievements since the very beginning of our entry into this field.
  • "Picking Cotton."

    Front: "Picking Cotton. Huntsville, Ala."
  • "The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes"

    Front: The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, Huntsville, Ala.
  • A Business Center

    Front: A Business Center, Huntsville, AL
  • A Fall Scene on the Road to Monte Sano

    Back: HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, "Outer Space Capital, USA"
    A Fall scene along the road to the top of Monte Sano. The State Park is well-known for the fine horses and horseback riding trails.
  • A Good Cotton Day

    Front: County Court House. A good cotton day, Huntsville, Ala.
  • A Large Retail Trading Center

    Back: STREET SCENE, Huntsville, Alabama, a cultural center of the Old South. Huntsville is a large retail trading center, the focal point of an industrial segment of 8 million persons in a 200 mile radius.
  • Aerial view of Burritt on the Mountain

    Back: Aerial view of Burritt on the Mountain - A Living Museum with Jones Valley in the background.
  • Aerial View of Huntsville, Alabama

    Back: AERIAL VIEW OF HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA "Where America's Race to the Moon Began"
    This scene shows a part of Big Springs Park, the City Hall, Madison County Courthouse, State National Bank Building and other fine edifices in downtown.
  • Aerial View of Main Business Section

    Front: Aerial View of Main Business Section, Huntsville, Alabama
  • Aerial View of Troop Housing

    Back: An aerial view of Troop Housing at the Missile and Maintenance Center and School at Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama.
  • Alabama A & M College

    Back: ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE, Normal, Alabama
    A partial view of the campus in the Fall. Organized in 1875 as the Huntsville Normal and Industrial School by William Hooper Councill, with 2 teachers and 61 pupils, it is now nationally recognized.
  • ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE

    Back: ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE, Normal, Alabama
    Bibb Graves Hall in center and on the right is the Student Union Building (College Center).
  • Alabama A & M College

    Front: Historic Huntsville
    Back: Historic Huntsville, Alabama. ALABAMA A & M COLLEGE.
    On this campus site once stood the Green Bottom Inn, one of Huntsville's earliest hostelries, noted for its race track. GRAY GANDER, once rated the world's fastest horse and winner of a $20,000 purse (not a small amount in the 1800's), raced and worked out here. Many notables, including President James Monroe, President James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson, gathered here for rest and diversion.
  • ALABAMA A & M Science Building

    Front: Alabama A & M
    Back: ALABAMA A & M, Normal, Alabama
    Science Building in foreground - also showing Bibb Graves Hall, Student Center, Library, Cafeteria and Women's Dormitory.
  • Alabama Space and Rocket Center

    ALABAMA SPACE & ROCKET CENTER. A 1.9 million dollar, State-owned science exhibit containing Exhibit Building, Rocket Area, Apollo-Saturn V Moon Rocket, Moon Crater and Missile Area. Features 50 audience participation exhibits describing rocket propulsion, living in space, Apollo lunar landing and story of the universe. Located within city limits of Huntsville, Alabama.

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