Cotton--Marketing
Courthouses--Alabama
Huntsville (Ala.)
Madison County (Ala.)
The photo shows the north side of courthouse square looking east in downtown Huntsville. The Madison County Courthouse can be seen at the right of the photo.
Collins, Ira F.
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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Card photographs
Still Image
"Entrance to O'Shaughnessy Place -- Monte Sano."
Houses
Monte Sano Mountain (Huntsville, Ala.)
The O'Shaughnessy Place, nicknamed "Castle Delight," was built in 1885 by Col. James and Lucy O'Shaughnessy. It was a two-story Queen Anne-style house with four chimneys, gas lights, water lines, and indoor plumbing. Col. O'Shaughnessy was a cotton and real estate broker, seaport and railroad developer, and co-owner of the Huntsville Hotel, Huntsville Opera House, Hotel Monte Sano, and the Monte Sano Railway and Turnpike. The house burned in March 1890 and was demolished in the 1920s.
Caves
Dance halls
Shelta Caverns (Huntsville, Ala.)
The photo shows the owner, Henry Fuller, with his family outside the cave entrance. Fuller purchased the cave in 1888 and developed it into an underground dance hall and bar. The cave is near current-day Pulaski Pike in Huntsville.
Health resorts--United States
The hotel opened on June 1, 1887 as a luxury health resort. It was built by the North Alabama Improvement Company with funding from Michael and James O'Shaughnessy. The hotel closed in 1900 and was demolished in 1944.
O'Shaughnessy, James
Lakes & ponds
This photo shows a scene at Lily Lake on the grounds of Col. James O'Shaughnessy's home on Monte Sano. According to the Historic Huntsville Quarterly, the structure in the foreground of the photo is a "four-tiered vertical framework covered with ivy, and reaching an impressive height of twelve feet or so."
"Natural Wells. 350 ft drop in solid rock -- Monte Sano."
Natural Well (Huntsville, Ala.)
The well is a large limestone cave shaft located near the site of the Hotel Monte Sano.
The photo depicts a man sitting on the rocks amidst the trees. The back of the photo reads, " 'The Eddies' or Eddy Rocks of Monte Sano."
"The head of Big Spring Huntsville Ala."
Springs
Big Spring (Huntsville, Ala.)
The view shows Athens Pike (now Holmes Avenue) in Huntsville, Alabama, with Monte Sano Mountain in the background.
A horse and buggy team fording a body of water near Huntsville, Alabama.
Bodies of water
Crowd gathered at the capitol building in Denver, Colorado.
Colorado State Capitol (Denver, Colo.)
Soldiers--United States
A handwritten inscription on the back of the photo notes, "The day 'our soldiers' came home, in front of capital. Sept. '99."
Monte Sano Boy Scout troop on a camping trip.
Boy Scouts of America
Camping
Photographs
Toll roads
Photo album of downtown Huntsville from the city's sesquicentennial celebration.
Celebrations--Alabama
The album includes photos of the Confederate monument and banners and decorations on the street.
Photograph albums
The photos show scenes from the sesquicentennial festivities in and around the square, including people dressed in early nineteenth century attire, storefronts, and street decorations.
Photo of the cast of a production of Snow White at the Monte Sano community pool.
Community theater
Huntsville (Ala.)--Maps
Monte Sano State Park (Ala.)
This map was drawn by William W. Varnedoe, Jr. and published by the Monte Sano Civic Association. It shows Monte Sano's neighborhoods, the state park, and the mountain's natural features, including springs and caves. The map also notes changes in elevation.
Varnedoe, William W., Jr.
Maps
Topographic maps