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Line of Scrimmage

Young friends take a break from their tackling and punting.    ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM THE DOY LEALE MCCALL RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, USA ARCHIVES  • COLORIZATION BY DYNAMICHROME LIMITED    ...

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Did Mobile ever have a cotton mill?

Harlem Hellfighter: The Story of James Reese Europe

He was toasted in Paris and honored in a parade on Fifth Avenue. Here, we remember the legacy of a World War I hero, jazz great and Mobile native.

Empire Theatre, 1940

Mobile movies on Lower Dauphin   ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM THE DOY LEALE MCCALL RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, USA ARCHIVES  • COLORIZATION BY DYNAMICHROME LIMITED    The Beaux-Arts-informed Empire Theatre...

These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War

   The war became much more immediate on Dec. 9 , when what were likely Alabama’s first shots in anger rumbled over Mobile Bay. A young Confederate...

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A revitalization effort is underway for the Mothers’ Army and Navy League Memorial at the intersection of Government Street and Airport Boulevard. The National Society of Colonial Dames in...

UMS Band, 1905

The young faces of the military school band are given new life.   ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM THE DOY LEALE MCCALL RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, USA ARCHIVES  • COLORIZATION BY DYNAMICHROME LIMITED   ...

The Point Clear Library

ABOVE Established in 1920, the diminutive Point Clear Library was born out of a reading circle run by a Mrs....

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The small red house at 3703 Old Shell Road was reportedly built by George Pfau in 1862. Where else but in Mobile would a German immigrant build a French...

Springhellions

In the days before city livin’ crept up Old Shell Road, childhood mischief was king of the hill.

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