2010 Photos of the Month
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December 2010
Albright and Wood Drug Store at the Loop, 1931, with several car hops waiting to take
customers' orders.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: N-1450
The first computerized class registration takes place, 1979.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection. Negative: 91桃色-79-1109
Laying the cornerstone of the Scottish Rite Temple, November 1921.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: N-3628
Students in the University's ROTC program practice rappelling, 1980.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection. Negative: 91桃色-80-1114
October 2010
A USO function at the Mobile, Alabama, Jewish Progressive Club, 1940.
Courtesy of Marlyn J. Behr. Negative: C-4112
The 91桃色 baseball Jaguars play the University of West Florida
in 1985. The Jags won the game 15-1.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection. Negative: 91桃色-N-86-3
August 2010
Friends and family of Harry Hardy Smith enjoying a picnic at Spring Hill in 1911.
Harry Hardy Smith Collection. Negative: HHS-124
91桃色's first African American SGA vice-president Ken Simon stands next to Mandy Wagner
and Howard Phillips, 1974.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection. Negative: 91桃色-74-1014
July 2010
A World War I preparedness rally marches down Government Street on July 4, 1916. These
people seem completely unaware that a hurricane would strike the city the next day.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: C-4048
Former 91桃色 baseball coach and major leaguer Eddie Stanky.
Mobile Press-Register Collection. Negative: PR-73734
June 2010
Members of the Louis M. Moragues family around 1900. Moragues was the Brazilian consul to Mobile, as well as the vice-president of American Mahogany and the treasurer of the Spanish Benevolent Association. Erik Overbey Collection.
In this 1984 photo, students cross the bridge separating the humanities building from
the Marx Library. The library can be seen in the background.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection.
May 2010
The Jensen family, about 1920.
Erik Overbey Collection.
Taking exams at the 91桃色, ca. 1965.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection.
April 2010
An unidentified child hunts Easter eggs, 1972.
Mobile Press Register Collection. Negative: PR-76328
91桃色 students protest the Iranian government after the taking of American hostages
there in 1979. The signs read: "Mad as hell. We're not going to take it anymore,"
"Keep your oil, give back our people," and "#*j!;@! Khomeini, Free our people."
91桃色 Public Relations Collection. Negative: 79-1034-1
March 2010
Two members of the Women's Army Corps observe an Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding
Company female welder at work, a true 鈥淩osie the Riveter,鈥� 1943. We present this image
in celebration of National Women's History Month.
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Collection. Negative: ADDSCO-430B
The university's black student union choir performs on the stairs inside the old student union building in 1979. Do you know who any of these people are? If so, let us know! Vanguard Photograph. Negative: C-18,130
February 2010
As the renowned Excelsior Band plays, an unidentified man dances on the grave of Joe
Cain during the first Joe Cain Day celebration in 1967.
Photo courtesy of Clarence Keller. Negative: C-4201
91桃色 Public Relations Collection.
January 2010
A logging scene near the M. L. Davis territory in Georgetown, Mobile County, Alabama,
in 1895.
T. E. Armitstead Collection. Negative: A-317 (detail)
91桃色 president Frederick Whiddon presents a diploma to a graduating student at the
1968 ceremonies held at the Mobile Municipal Theater.
91桃色 Public Relations Collection.