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  • Butler School

    Front: Butler School, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Butlers School

    Front: Butlers School, Huntsville, Ala.
  • High School

    Front: High School, Huntsville, Ala.
  • High School

    Front: High School, Huntsville, Ala.
  • View from Monte Sano State Park

    Front: View from Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Huntsville High School

    Front: Huntsville High School, Huntsville, Ala.
  • View from Monte Sano State Park

    Front: View from Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Highway to Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Ala.

    Front: Highway to Monte Sano State Park, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Weeden Homestead

    Front: The Weeden Homestead, Huntsville, Alabama. "Bandana Ballads"
  • Carnegie Library

    Front: Carnegie Library, Huntsville, Ala.
  • The Beirne Home, Erected in 1837

    Front: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
  • The Beirne Home, Erected in 1837

    Front: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
    Back: The Bierne [sic] Home, Erected in 1837, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Major Echols Home

    Front: Maj. Echols Home, Huntsville, Ala.
    Back: Maj. Echols Home, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Scene on Franklin Street

    Front: Scene on Franklin St., Huntsville, Ala.
  • Residence of Mr. & Mrs. Milton K. Cummings

    Front: Residence of Mr. & Mrs. Milton K. Cummings, Huntsville, Alabama
    Back: This residence was built in 1860 by Major Robert H. Watkins. In 1863 became the headquarters of General John A. Logan of U. S. Army during the time he was Federal Commander of Huntsville.
  • Weeden House

    Front: Weeden House, Home of Howard Weeden, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Franklin Street, Looking South

    Front: Franklin Street, looking South, Huntsville, Ala.
  • Oaklawn Plantation

    Front: Oaklawn Plantation, Huntsville, Alabama
    Back: OAKLAWN PLANTATION, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
    This is but one of many outstanding Ante-Bellum homes in the area. Its present owner, Mr. Max Luther, has modernized the building without losing any of its gracious beauty, surrounded by almost 200 acres which is now being operated as a stock farm.
  • Oaklawn Plantation

    Back: OAKLAWN PLANTATION - one of the most beautiful ante-bellum homes in Huntsville, Alabama - was built around 1844 and served as a hospital during the Spanish-American War. The late Max Luther transformed the 175 acre estate into a stock farm. He also maintained a very fine stable for his noted five- and three-gaited saddle horses.
  • Rolling Cotton Down the Bluff

    Front: Rolling Cotton Down the Bluff, Huntsville, Alabama
    Back: ROLLING COTTON DOWN THE BLUFF. This picture shows the negroes rolling the cotton down the bluff to be loaded on the waitiug steamer. The average bale weighs 500 pounds. One hundred years ago it would have taken a person working night and day two years to separate the seed from the cotton in one bale; to-day a battery ginnery has a capacity of 155 hundred pound bales in twelve hours.