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The Northport Civic Club float for the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade.The automobile was driven by Miss Pearl Maxwell who became Mrs. Peters. The woman in the front passenger seat is Mrs. J. E. Shirley, wife of a Northport doctor.

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The queen of the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade, Julia Lucille Nuzum Morris, and her attendant, Annalee Fitts, are shown in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade in 1916.

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Julia Nuzum Morris (Mrs. Charles Morris) was queen of the festivities around the Tuscaloosa Centennial Celebration in 1916.

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The Rose Store float in Tuscaloosa's Centennial parade was "profusely decorated with roses, as well as a bunting and festoons. In the center of their float was a big flower basket filled with the prettiest roses and girls to be found in Tuscaloosa,…

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The driver in this Tea Club float for the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade is Mrs. C.P. Bell nee Addie Shirley. Front seat passenger is Mrs. John Neilson. Back seat passengers are Mrs. W.J. Barnes and Mrs. Tom Ward. The Tuscaloosa News on May 30, 1916,…

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The Tuscaloosa Cotton Seed Oil Company float was one of many industrial and merchandise floats in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade on May 30, 1916. The float was pulled by a large four-horse team carrying 38 different kinds of food products made by…

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United Daughters of the Confederacy float, decorated in the colors of the Confederacy, was driven by Mr. Luther Maxwell with Mrs. Maxwell in the front seat. In the back (left to right) are Mrs. J.M. Rogers (nee Alner Jenkins), Mrs. Ellen Peter…

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The Zamora Shrine drill team in Tuscaloosa's centennial parade in 1916. The team is on Market Street (now Greensboro Avenue) approaching Broad Street (now University Boulevard). Hinckley Photo Shop is on the right and Brown's Dollar Store beyond it.

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The soldier in the center is John C. Foster.

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This postcard was mailed from France from James L. West to his father, L. H. West in Samantha.

The message says: Helo (sic) How are you all tonight? Fine, I hope. For self, getting along fine. Say I heard you all had a big snow back in the stats…
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