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A Disastrous Fire on Commercial Row, Weekly Democrat, 1901
This article from the Huntsville Weekly Democrat reports the cause and the estimated losses of the Commercial Row Fire on December 21, 1900. According to the article, the fire originated in the Alabama Feed and Implements Company store. One man died due to injuries from the fire and another man was injured. Estimated losses for each of the businesses on the street are listed in the article. The estimated loss for Harrison Brothers two buildings was $4,500. -
United Charities and the Dallas Day Nursery, 1900
This is an article featured in a Dallas News section of the Huntsville Weekly Democrat on September 19, 1900. According to the article, Dallas Mill had plans to establish a day nursery on the W.H. Moore property with the help of United Charity. United Charities was a group of women who lobbied the Huntsville city council to better the conditions in Huntsville's cotton mill villages. The day nursery was expected to solve the problem of child labor in the mill. Mrs. Anna B. Robertson and Mrs. Alberta C. Taylor visited the Dallas Mill in Nashville to research the day nursery there. Mrs. Robertson was to be the matron of the nursery. The article also announces a dormitory for homeless girls and a school to be built on the same W.H. Moore property. -
Contract between Hutchens & Murdock and the Huntsville Ware-House Co.
This contract outlines the purchase and installation of automatic sprinklers for the sum of $1,674.00. The contract outlines the agreement of how the Huntsville Ware-House Co. will pay after the installation and the promises made by Hutchens & Murdock of products and techniques used. These scans include the handwritten notes on the backs of each page. -
Advertisement for Grand Cleaners.
Grand Cleaners, located at 801 Franklin St. SE in Huntsville, was owned and operated by Shelby and Lou Johnson. The Grand Cleaners building opened in 1947 as a state-of-the-art drycleaning facility. Sterling Travel Agency now occupies the building. -
Monthly monetary tally for Huntsville Shoe Co.
A monthly monetary tally for Hunstville Shoe Co. written on S. Schiffman & Co. -
"Educational Lift-Off: Dedication 1969."
The program dedicates three new Huntsville schools, each named for a member of the Apollo crew that died in the pad fire of February 21, 1967. This program was included in one of two scrapbooks that Christel and George McCanless made for UAH history professor Frances Roberts in 1969. -
Bill for Oscar Goldsmith and the Huntsville Land Company.
A bill for six rolls of roofing for $9.30 to Oscar Goldsmith with the Huntville Land Co. -
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"Huntsville: Strategic Center of the Southeast."
The map is an excerpt from Huntsville tourism materials, "Information Kit, Facts, and Figures on Living in Huntsville-Madison County, Alabama." -
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"Saturn V Apollo flight configuration."
Diagram displaying the internal rooms, pieces and functions of the Saturn V as well as the space-suits of the astronauts. -
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The Tribune, Monument Edition.
Published on Thanksgiving Day 1900, this issue of the Tribune includes stories, songs, and poetry; lists of dead Confederate soldiers from Huntsville and Madison Count; and coverage of the erection of the Confederate monument in downtown Huntsville. Much discussion is made as well of the "Lost Cause," a mythology that perpetuates the belief that the cause of the Confederate States was noble and just and denies that slavery played the central role in secession. Includes columns written by Virginia Clay-Clopton and John Tyler Morgan. -
Finance Report, 1953
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"Huntsville, Alabama: Missile and Space Capital."
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. -
Stipulation of the testimony of William F. Hunt.
Written testimony of William F. Hunt, employee of Reynolds Metals Company, as presented if he were "present in court". No signatures of the defense counsel, accused, or trial counsel are on the document.