This promotional booklet describes the facilities offered by the City of Huntsville, Alabama, during the 1960s, including various city departments, utilities, schools, industries, and cultural institutions.
This guide to Redstone Arsenal contains a history of the Arsenal, complete with pictures of "Army Missiles of the Past" and details about the Army Commands stationed there, as well as descriptions of the amenities, facilities, and social opportunities available on base and in the Huntsville area.
This pamphlet includes a memo to "Key MSFC Employees" from M. Keith Wible, Chief of the Manpower Utilization and Administration Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.
Front: Greetings from Huntsville, ALA. Huntsville Spring in Winter. Court House. Back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress May 19, 1898.
Front: Greetings from Huntsville, ALA. Huntsville, U. S. Court House & Post Office, Hotel Monte Sano and Grounds. Back: Private Mailing Card. Authorized by Act of Congress May 19, 1898.
Front: Colonial Homes, Huntsville, Ala. Back: Few parts of the South equal Huntsville in wealth of handsome ante-bellum Homes. Posterity may view with profitable concern No. 1, the residence first Secretary of the States of the Confederacy, who issued order to fire on Fort Sumter in 1861, first shot ot the Civil War. This edifice was built in 1815. No. 2, the home of the first Governor of Alabama, built in 1837. No. 3, the palatial home ot a wealthy planter of the Old South, built in 1835.
Front: Greetings From Rocket City - Huntsville, Alabama, Home of the Redstone Arsenal Back: Huntsville is the home of Redstone Arsenal which houses the U. S. Army Missile Command with responsibility for all Army Missiles and Rockets, the U. S. Army Ordnance Guided Missile School where soldiers receive missile training and the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA which provides the giant rocket vehicles for the nation's space program.
Front: Huntsville, Alabama, The Space Capital Back: HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA, "The Space Capital Of The Universe" Shown Here Are The Former Madison County Courthouse, Big Springs, Oaklawn Home, Redstone Missile, The Saturn #1 Space Vehicle.
Front: Greetings From Rocket City - Huntsville, Alabama, Home of the Redstone Arsenal Back: Huntsville is home of Redstone Arsenal, the Army Ordance research and development center for rockets and guided missiles. Here has centered the development of such famous rockets and guided missiles as the Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules, Corporal, Sergeant, Hawk, Dart, Little John, Honest John, Lacrosse, Hermes, Redstone, Jupiter and Jupiter C, which launched America's first earth satellite.
