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Computing Machinery and Intelligence
A portion of the text of "Computing machinery and intelligence" by Alan Turing, which posed the question "can machines think" and proposed the Turing test. -
Ruth Heimburg with her children Ruth Marie and Klaus circa 1959.
Ruth and her two older children traveling. Location and destination unknown; either going to or from German and Huntsville, Alabama. -
Typed letter in Deutsch from Ruth Heimburg to her Father, April 1949.
This image is of a type-written letter by Ruth Heimburg in Deutsch. Sent from Ft. Bliss, Texas to her Father in Germany. Notably, Ruth asks her Father if her younger brother Dieter has been cooking his potato goulash as that is his "specialty." -
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Hampton Court Palace Haunted Gallery
A gallery lined with 16th century paintings, including portraits of Tudor monarchs. Legend has it that when Queen Katherine Howard discovered she was being charged with adultery, she broke free from her guards stationed outside her room and ran along this route in the hope of finding King Henry in the Chapel to plead her innocence to. It is said that her ghost can still be seen running through this "Haunted Gallery," wailing for mercy. -
AIDS in Alabama in the Decatur Daily
A chart from a digitization of the Decatur Daily Newspaper showing the current number of AIDS cases in Aalabama in 1994. -
Katherine Howard's letter to Thomas Culpeper
This is the only surviving letter written by Katherine Howard. It is addressed to Thomas Culpeper, whom she was accused of having an affair with. The letter can be interpreted in many different ways, from evidence of the affair to the possibility of Katherine being blackmailed. -
Advertisement for Grand Cleaners.
Grand Cleaners, located at 801 Franklin St. SE in Huntsville, was owned and operated by Shelby and Lou Johnson. The Grand Cleaners building opened in 1947 as a state-of-the-art drycleaning facility. Sterling Travel Agency now occupies the building. -
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. -
Details of an Ice Chart of the Southern Hemisphere
Showcases where Captain Cook saw pack ice outside Antarctica's coast. -
South Polar Chart
Chart showing tracks of expeditions to Antarctica -
Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup presented by Messrs. Root & Co., Ltd.
This is a pamphlet advertising the first edition of the Cuca Cocoa Challenge Cup Race at Herne Hill Velodrome. It includes rules, -
Wood engraving of the first quinine tree being planted in the Neilgherry hills, India.
Cinchona plantations in the Neilgherry hills India. Sir William Denison, the governor of Madras, is planting the first tree in a new plantation for the production of quinine. -
View of Morton Hall and extension
Morton Hall, located on 301 sparkman drive northwest, is the hall right next to the Franks dorms and houses most of the language arts and other humanity subjects in uah. It is one of the oldest buildings on UAH campus which was first created in 1961. -
Montgomery Advertiser Photographs of AIDS Outreach
A clipping of the digitization of the October 21, 1989 edition of the Montgomery Advertiser's Religion Section that has a photograph of AIDS outreach attempts by churches. The top photo is of Revs. Elizabeth Leech (left) and Stephen Pieters. The bottom photo is of Rev. William Rupracht. -
A Picture of the Agape House from the Birmingham Post Herald
A digitization of a picture of the Agape House in Birmingham, Alabama before renovations started to turn it into a special AIDS housing unit. -
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Remembering
A clipping of a digital scan of the December 2, 1994 Birmingham Post Herald Metro-State page