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The wrecked auto is a 1951 Commodore 8. It has been towed to Robertson Service Station across from the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse.

This railroad scene shows Tuscaloosa Cotton Seed Oil Company with the tall smokestack behind the light-colored building. Other business are unidentified and the date is unknown.

A horse-drawn wagon passes the F. W. Monnish Building Materials Store. The location of the store is unknown. The sign on the wagon reads "Phil W. Blondheim." Blondheim owned a clothing store.

Blondheim came from Washington, D.C., to Tuscaloosa…

An advertisement scanned from the 1896 Corolla, the University of Alabama yearbook.

The Corolla, v.3, 1896

Tyler Hagenwald and Bill Hess share a bicycle.

An advertisement scanned from the 1895 Corolla, the University of Alabama yearbook.

Streetcar service began in 1883 with the arrival of the town’s first horsecar trolley. Operated by the Tuskaloosa Street Railway, streetcars were pulled on rail by…

The steam packet "R. E. Lee" is shown docked on the north side of the Tuscaloosa Wharf on the Black Warrior River. The engraving was made around 1887 and is included in the Tuskaloosa Coal, Iron and Land Company promotional catalog.

The streetcar stops at the corner of Broad Street (now University Boulevard) and Greensboro Avenue in front of Brown's Dollar Store that later became Brown's Department Store.

Streetcar service began in 1883 with the arrival of the town’s first…

Electric streetcars like the ones pictured were first used in Tuscaloosa in February of 1915, and superseded the old steam locomotive known as the "dummy line."

Streetcar service began in 1883 with the arrival of the town’s first horsecar…

The trolley is shown on Broad Street (now University Boulevard). Behind the trolley in the building with the white awning is the Charles Black Company, a clothing store. To its left is the Merchants Bank and Trust building. At the other end of the…