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City Commissioners alight from their official car as the 1916 Centennial Parade ends in front of City Hall on Greensboro Avenue. The commissioners were Cliff Atkinson, D. Beatty Robertson, and Hugh Prince.

The Neilson-Smith Shoe Company float in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade on May 30, 1916, was composed of "a large shoe mounted on a dray and Mr. Neilson as 'Old Mother Hubbard' sat in the heel of it, complacently smoking a cob pipe, as her children…

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.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, January 26, 1983, announcing the death of former Alabama coach Paul "Bear" Bryant of a heart attack.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, June 11, 1963, when Alabama Governor George Wallace made his "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door," attempting to prevent two African-American students from being admitted into the University of Alabama.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, November 20, 1941, when former University of Alabama president Richard Foster died.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, June 29, 1919, announcing the conclusion of World War I.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, April 5, 1968, after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, May 7, 1915, after the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.

Front page of The Tuscaloosa News, November 22, 1963, after the death of President John F. Kennedy who was shot in Dallas.