News clippings announcing new citizenship for a group of German teenagers living in Huntsville, Alabama.
Citizenship--United States
German Americans
Immigrants--United States--History--20th century
Operation Paperclip (U.S.)
Huntsville (Ala.)
Madison County (Ala.)
The members of the group were all children of German engineers who were brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip. The clippings include photos of the group with their new immigration registration cards.
Chattanooga Times
Huntsville Times
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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Newspapers
Clippings
Text
Autographs of the Mercury Seven astronauts.
Astronauts--United States
Project Mercury (U.S.)
The group gave out autographs during their visit to Redstone Arsenal in 1959. A news clipping with a photograph of five of the seven astronauts in Huntsville is attached.
Keepsakes
Still Image
"14 Employees Graduated With First UAH Class."
Aeronautical engineers
Commencement ceremonies
Engineers in government
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Clipping from the Marshall Star, May 29, 1968, vol. 8, no. 36.
Marshall Star
"Haskins Makes Quick Change from Civilian Ph.D. to Pfc."
Haskins, Richard
Military engineers
Physicists--United States
Redstone Arsenal (Ala.)
Clipping from the Redstone Rocket, March 2, 1954. The article highlights Haskins' background as a physicist and his role in the 9330 Technical Service Unit.
Redstone Rocket
AIDS (Disease)
1917 Clinic at UAB
Schedules (Time plans)
HIV (Viruses)
AIDS Education
HIV-positive persons--Care
University of Alabama at Birmingham. 1917 Clinic
A detailed schedule for an AIDS training program hosted at Shades Valley Lutheran Church in January of 1996. It also shares a new phone number for AIDS volunteers to use, and lists the sponsoring organizations of the program.
The Marge Ragona Collection, The Birmingham Public Library
9330 Technical Service Unit Year Book 1951-1952.
Guided missiles
Soldiers
9330 Technical Service Unit
Yearbooks
AIDS Doesn't Discriminate - Birmingham Post Herald
A full page ad in the 1991 Birmingham Post Herald for the charity A Baby's Place in Alabama, explaining their purpose and how AIDS can affect babies and small children.
A Baby's Place
The Birmingham Post Herald, Newspapers.com, Ancestry.com (LLC) https://www.newspapers.com/image/795954150/
Advertisements
AIDS is a Small Problem - Birmingham Post Herald
A full-page advertisement in the 1995 Birmingham Post-Herald from A Baby's Place of Alabama. It explains the affects of AIDS on babies and small children, and explains what A Baby's Place does as a charity to help with it.
A.M. Booth Contractor and Builder account page, 1901.
Booth, A.M.
Harrison Brothers Hardware (Huntsville, Ala.)
This is an image of an A.M. Booth accounting page with dates from August 3rd to September 6th of unknown years. The text at the top of the page states "Bought of A.M. Booth Contractor and Builder. Dealer in All Kinds of Building Material." Items, most likely for the reconstruction of Harrison Brothers in 1902, are listed on the page along with prices and payments.
A.M. Booth, Contractor and Builder (Huntsville, Ala.)
Lists
Telegram and a handwritten letter from A. J. Abrahams to S. Schiffman.
Business
Collecting of accounts
Cotton manufacture--United States
Cleveland (Ten.)
In the telegram A. J. Abrahams acknowledges that S. Schiffman will cover a $300 bill. It ends with a promise to explain the circumstances in a letter that will follow. In the handwritten letter to S. Schiffman, A. J. Abrahams details the circumstances surrounding the need for S. Schiffman to cover the bill and thanks him for his kindness.
Abrahams, A. J.
Correspondence
Telegram
A pink triangle against a black backdrop with the words 'Silence=Death' representing an advertisement for The Silence = Death Project used by permission by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power
ACT UP
Wikipedia, Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence%3DDeath_Project#/media/File:A_pink_triangle_against_a_black_backdrop_with_the_words_'Silence=Death'_representing_an_advertisement_for_The_Silence_=_Death_Project_used_by_permission_by_ACT-UP,_The_AIDS_Coalition_To_Unleash_Power._Wellcome_L0052822.jpg
Posters
Memorandum from Dr. C. Adams, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Building Committee, to Christel McCanless, Librarian, Huntsville Campus Library.
Adams, C.
McCanless, Christel Ludewig
Academic libraries--Collection development
Academic libraries--Space utilization
The memo contains calculations for necessary shelf space and access space in the proposed library building and takes account of collection growth. Includes floor plans and elevations.
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States
Defense information, Classified
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles
Jupiter missile
Leaks (Disclosure of information)
This is an extract from Special Orders Number 135 regarding Colonel John C. Nickerson, Jr.
Adamson, O. E.
Orders (military records)
"Frances Roberts: Her Life and Legacy" exhibit panels.
Roberts, Frances C.
Alabama--History
Historic preservation
Libraries--Special collections--Archival materials
This exhibit was made possible by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Alliance in collaboration with the UAH History Department and the UAH Humanities Center.
Adan, Drew
Gibbons, Caroline
Grimsley, Reagan L.
Kaparos, Sara
Morris, William
Exhibition posters
"Application of Nuclear Propulsion to the Mars Manned Landing Mission."
Mars (Planet)--Exploration
Nuclear rocket engines
Saturn Project (U.S.)
Spacecraft propulsion
Space flight to Mars
This report has been prepared to provide Aerojet management and the interested NASA offices with nuclear propulsion decision aid data. The primary intent of these analyses is to evaluate potential space missions which may utilize nuclear propulsion in an effort to determine the most desirable characteristics of a nuclear propulsion system.
Advanced Concepts, Reon Division, Aerojet-General Corporation.
Reports
Letter to Robert K. Bell from Col. Forrest J. Agee.
Agee writes this letter in response to Bell's June 3, 1957 letter to the Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, regarding request for access to classified information. He states that the request is "not favorable considered" and the necessary information could "readily be obtained from direct testimony."
Agee, Forrest J.
Letter Concerning FCR's Paper on Lowe and the Greenback Party, to Roberts, Frances C., 1951
Essays
Farmers and Greenback Insurgency, 1878-1882 (Madison County, Alabama)
Professional correspondence
Publications
University of Alabama
Agee, Rucker
Social work with HIV-positive persons
AIDS (Disease)--History
AIDS Education and Ministry Project at UAB
AIDS Care Teams
The front and back of an informational brochure for the AIDS Care Teams from the 1917 AIDS Clinic at UAB and the AIDS Education and Ministry Project at UAB. It gives an overview of how the program works and where to get training to volunteer with the program.
Marler, Malcolm, 1955-
"AIDS Care Teams." In Marge Ragona Collection, AIDS Education and Ministry Project. 2174.2.27. Birmingham Public Library Archives, Birmingham, AL.
Friday Morning Grace
Marge Ragona Collection, AIDS Education and Ministry Project. 2174.2.27. Birmingham Public Library Archives, Birmingham, AL.
This is a page from an informational booklet for the Friday Morning Grace program at the 1917 AIDS Clinic at UAB. It details out the AIDS Care Team model that the clinic trains volunteers in.