Students eat lunch at UAH freshman orientation.
College students
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville (Ala.)
Madison County (Ala.)
Cobb, Jeff
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
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Photographs
Still Image
Art in universities and colleges
College campuses
Sculptor Kosso Eloul built the painted steel sculpture, located near Roberts Hall, in 1977.
Record albums and other merchandise for sale at the UAH bookstore.
Legal and court documents, 1858 (1 of 2)
Debt
Fayetteville (Tenn.)
Business people
Fearn, Donegan, & Co.
Colcock, Charles J.
Coffey, John R.
Frances C. Roberts Collection, Series 1, Subseries B, Box 4, Folder 4, University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, Huntsville, Alabama
Correspondence
Promissory note
Query Letter Concerning Wyatt, Richard G., to Roberts, Frances C., 1959
Genealogy
History–Sources
Student records
Wyatt, Richard G.
Cole, Frances Wyatt
Statement from the defense counsel of Colonel John C. Nickerson, Jr.
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States
Defense information, Classified
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles
Jupiter missile
Leaks (Disclosure of information)
This statement insists the charges and specifications against Colonel Nickerson "greatly enlarge on any activities or indiscretion that the Colonel might possibly have committed." The counsel states the Nickerson was simply acting out of enthusiasm to serve the Army. It states that Colonel Charles Zimmer and 1st Lt. Lewis Cole have been assigned to Nickerson's defense.
Cole, Lewis
Zimmer, Charles
Documents
Text
Collier, Cliff
Toll roads
Monte Sano Mountain (Huntsville, Ala.)
Collins, Ira F.
Card photographs
Cotton--Marketing
Courthouses--Alabama
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.
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.
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."
"Entrance to O'Shaughnessy Place -- Monte Sano."
Houses
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.
"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.
A horse and buggy team fording a body of water near Huntsville, Alabama.
Bodies of water
"The head of Big Spring Huntsville Ala."
Springs
Big Spring (Huntsville, Ala.)
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."
The view shows Athens Pike (now Holmes Avenue) in Huntsville, Alabama, with Monte Sano Mountain in the background.
Family
Photography
Photograph of two babies. The back of the photo card reads "Ira F. Collins, Photographic Art Studio, East Side Public Square, Huntsville, Ala. Frames and Views for Sale, Copyrighted 1889.
Photograph of W. C. Hutchens and his dog at Big Spring.
Nature
On back: "Willard" and "W.C. Hutchens 1896-1951"