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	Search results for is    Refine your search Try advanced search results 1-20 of 78 item(s)  page 1 of 4 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  >> ) :: previous : next select all : clear all : add to favorites   Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. Huntsville Manufacturing Company Weaving Room Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; These textile mill employees are working in the "Weaving Room". Weaving transforms yarn into cloth. It interlaces two sets of threads in the machine, which is called a loom. The set of yarn which run the... 2. Big Spring, 1862 Big Spring (Huntsville, Ala.); An early view of the Big Spring at flood stage, ca. 1862. The pump house is being demolished. The old Fearn Canal, which transported cotton on flatboats to the Tennessee River, is visible. 3. Shelta Caverns Caves--Alabama--Shelta Cave; The building over the entrance to Shelta Caverns. The owner, Henry Fuller (shown in the photo with members of his family), purchased the property in 1888 and proceeded to develop it for the public. The... 4. South Side Square, ca. 1869 Huntsville (Ala.)--Buildings, structures, inc.; Courthouse Square (Huntsville, Ala.); This image is from an old stereoscope photo. The old Schiffman Building is on the northeast corner of North Side Square. Harrison Brothers Hardware still occupies a store on South Side Square. 5. Dallas Mills Cotton Festival Float, 1901 Streets--Alabama--Huntsville-Holmes Avenue; Dallas Mill (Huntsville, Ala.); Festivals--Alabama--Huntsville; Dallas Float for Cotton Festival, 1901 - This was the Dallas Mills float for the Cotton Festival Parade in 1901. The scene is on West Holmes Street, looking west from where Fowler's is now located. The... 6. Huntsville Manufacturing Company Roving Room Huntsville Manufacturing Company (Ala.); Textile factories--Alabama--Huntsville; These ladies are working the "roving machines". "Roving" is a smaller strand of cotton that has been further reduced by rollers and bobbin speed. To resist breaking, the roving is given many twists as... 7. Dr. James I. Dawson Dawson, James I., 1925-; Huntsville (Ala.). Board of Education; Community leadership; A graduate of Alabama A&M, Tuskegee Institute, and Pennyslvania State University, Dr. James Dawson is a community leader who has worked in many capacities as an educator, an author, a businessman, and... 8. Madison Male and Female Academy Photograph of Madison Male and Female Academy, located near Pension Row in Madison. Date of photograph is autumn, 1887. No identification is available. 9. Cudahy Meat Packing Company Packing houses--Alabama--Cudahy Packing Co. of Alabama (Huntsville, Ala.); In the Cudahy Packing Co. building, meat was packaged and prepared for shipment by rail. Behind the building and to the left is the Huntsville Freight Station, which was once next to the current Huntsville... 10. Laying railroad track Railroad construction workers--Alabama--Huntsville; North Alabama Railroad Museum workers from the Chase Depot build a stretch of railroad tracks the old-fashioned way on Shields Rd. On each tie, the rail is placed on tie plates and nailed down with spikes.... 11. Guntersville Ferry crossing the Tennessee River Boats and boating--Transportation--Tennessee River; Around 1928, the old Guntersville Ferry is seen crossing the Tennessee River where the Whitesburg Bridge is now located 12. The Big Spring Landscape painting--Alabama--Huntsville--"The Big Spring"; Frye, William; An early view of Huntsville is seen in this painting by William Frye in the 1850's titled "The Big Spring." The painting features the Fearn Canal built in 1825 to carry cotton from the Big Spring to the... 13. Spanish American war troops in Huntsville, Alabama Spanish-American War, 1898--Huntsville (Ala.); Military camps--Spanish American War, 1898--Alabama; Twenty thousand soldiers from the Spanish-American War were sent to Huntsville, Alabama after the war in 1899. This camp is located in front of the Dallas Manufacturing Company near Oakwood and Dallas... 14. First public library in Alabama Libraries--Alabama--Huntsville; This is an architectual drawing of the first public library in Alabama. Built in 1818, it stands in Constitution Hall State Park in Huntsville, Alabama 15. Wernher von Braun in Huntsville Von Braun, Dr. Wernher, 1912-1977; Dr. Wernher von Braun is carried on the shoulders of Huntsvillians at the courthouse square during the splashdown celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing crew. The spacecraft that planted an American... 16. NASA crew Von Braun, Dr. Wernher, 1912-1977; Aerospace industries--Employees; Dr. Wernher von Braun is among a team of NASA scientists and engineers observing the early flight of the Saturn SA-8 vehicle from the complex 37 launch control center of the John F. Kennedy Space Center... 17. Huntsville High School -Randolph Ave. Schools--Alabama--Huntsville; Huntsville High School (Ala.); Huntsville High School on Randolph Avenue. Built in 1927, it served as a high school until 1954, when it was changed to Huntsville Middle School. It is now the Annie C. Merts Center. 18. Huntsville Depot Railroad stations--Alabama--Huntsville Depot; The original Memphis and Charleston Railroad Depot on Church Street was purchased by the Southern Railroad in the 1890's. It is now a museum owned by the City of Huntsville. 19. Huntsville Depot Loading Platform Railroad stations--Alabama--Huntsville Depot; The loading platform of the Huntsville Depot as it appeared in 1955 while the railroad was still the focal point of travel in the North Alabama area. It is virtually unchanged today. 20. North Side Courthouse Square Streets--Alabama---Huntsville; Courthouse Square (Huntsville, Ala.); Looking east along North Side Square (Randolph Street) from West Side Square. The Struve Building, with the round turrets, is at the corner of Randolph and Washington. select all : clear all : add to favorites results 1-20 of 78 item(s)  page 1 of 4 : ( <<  1  2  3  4  >> ) :: previous : next
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