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Huntsville Chamber of Commerce Page in the Huntsville Post, 1900

This is a page from the December 27, 1900, Art Industrial Edition of the Huntsville Post. This newspaper was used as a promotional material for the City of Huntsville. On this page, is an advertisement for the Heralds of Liberty, a progressive organization in Huntsville, and an article about the work of the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce. The men photographed on the page are Oscar Goldsmith, Vice-President; T.W. Pratt, President; H.J. Lowenthal, Treasurer; and N.F. Thompson, Secretary.

$33, 800 Fire on Commercial Row, 1901

This news article from The Journal, Huntsville, Alabama's Black-owned newspaper, lists the cost of a fire on Commercial Row in December 1901. The article was published on December 26, 1901. The total cost of the fire was $33, 800.

United Charities and the Dallas Day Nursery, 1900

This is an article featured in a Dallas News section of the Huntsville Weekly Democrat on September 19, 1900. According to the article, Dallas Mill had plans to establish a day nursery on the W.H. Moore property with the help of United Charity. United Charities was a group of women who lobbied the Huntsville city council to better the conditions in Huntsville's cotton mill villages. The day nursery was expected to solve the problem of child labor in the mill. Mrs. Anna B. Robertson and Mrs. Alberta C. Taylor visited the Dallas Mill in Nashville to research the day nursery there. Mrs. Robertson was to be the matron of the nursery. The article also announces a dormitory for homeless girls and a school to be built on the same W.H. Moore property.

A Disastrous Fire on Commercial Row, Weekly Democrat, 1901

This article from the Huntsville Weekly Democrat reports the cause and the estimated losses of the Commercial Row Fire on December 21, 1900. According to the article, the fire originated in the Alabama Feed and Implements Company store. One man died due to injuries from the fire and another man was injured. Estimated losses for each of the businesses on the street are listed in the article. The estimated loss for Harrison Brothers two buildings was $4,500.

Convolutional Neural Net Loss Plot

A loss plot for the letter convolutional neural net classifier.

Convolutional Neural Network Architecture

The architecture for the letter recognition convolutional neural network.

Table of Results from Automated Transcription Pipeline

A table that holds the results from testing for the automated transcription pipeline.

Layout for Letter Recognition Pipeline

The layout of the pipeline for the automated transcriber. It shows the input from a 1613 Bible, object detected, cropped, then transposed to a letter.

Object Detection Bounding Box Loss Plot

The loss plot for the bounding boxes from a YOLOv12 object detection model. Used to detect letters in a word.

YOLOv12 Object Detection Validation Prediction Results

The results from the validation test set for the YOLOv12 object detection model for the automated transcriber pipeline.

1613 Bible Open Image

A page from a 1613 Bible taken from the British Library.

Spine of 1613 Bible

The spine for the 1613 Bible taken at the British Library.

A Photo of Reference to the Land Surveyed on the Rivers Mobile and Alabama since the Establishment of the Civil Government in the Province of West Florida

A Photo of Reference to the Land Surveyed on the Rivers Mobile and Alabama since the Establishment of the Civil Government in the Province of West Florida.