Newspaper clipping files for the neighborhoods of Five Points South (60 articles), Huffman (40 articles), Smithfield (10 articles), and South Highland (15 articles) are now available online.
Newspaper articles about the Pratt City neighborhood have been added to the Digital Collections Database. The 64 articles cover the years 1932-1983 and discuss topics such as Pratt City pioneers, neighborhood projects and urban renewal.
In November, 1926, the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company began a monthly publication titled Pig Iron Rough Notes.
In the early 1980s, Kathryn Tucker Windham conducted oral histories with residents and former residents of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Transcripts of her interviews are now available online. More: continued here
Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Company developed the cities of Fairfield (Corey) and Mountain Brook. The company also built several neighborhoods, hotels, apartments, and office buildings in Birmingham. In order to promote their real estate ventures the Jemison Company published Jemison Magazine. This fascinating serial is now available online and covers the years 1910-1914 and [...]
Now available online is the 1914 publication Play ground day: greater Birmingham play ground demonstration. It includes many photographs of children on local playgrounds, names of the children, and photographs of city officials and leaders. More: continued here
Check out the more than 125 items added in January More: continued here
The Avondale Sun, a newspaper published by Avondale Mills for its employees, ran from 1924-2006. Over its 82-year history, it published community and employee news, company information, and photographs. G. Stephen Felker, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Avondale Mills, Inc., donated the Avondale Sun newspaper collection to the B. B. Comer Memorial Library in [...]
Newspaper articles about the Norwood neighborhood have been added to the Digital Collections database. More: continued here
Newspaper articles about Elyton, former seat of Jefferson County (AL), are now available online. More: continued here
