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The Verner School second grade class photo from 1931 includes (front row, second from left) Mary Martha Hanley and (front row, extreme right) Mildred Hoggle (now Mildred Deslattes). On the back row (left to right) are Bill Noland, Billy Armstrong,…

Group in front of the Tuscaloosa Senior High School. Kneeling left is Rhea Fayssoux and right is James "Curley" Kincaid. At the corner of the building stands J. Oviatt Bowers. Behind the two women in light-colored clothing is John Baker, Vice…

The Tuscaloosa High School Marching Band for 1945-46 shown in front of the school on 21st Avenue. The building, designed by architect D.O. Whilldin, is now the Board of Education Office. Bruce Davis and Rufus Partlow are in the photo. Left is band…

This photo shows a physical education class at Tuscaloosa Junior High School, located at the corner of 10th Street (now Paul W. Bryant Drive) and Queen City Avenue. The address was 915 Queen City Avenue. Rufus Partlow is front left with Bruce Davis…

This is a report card for Bruce Davis when he was in the 6th grade at Stafford School in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

This photo from the 1945-46 school year is not a typical photo for Stafford school classes. It is believed to have been made for a student, Talla Curtis, on her birthday and was a gift to the class from her parents. On the front row: Mildred Chism,…

Ettecca School was five miles north of the present (2014) Northside High School at the intersection of what was then Byler Road (now U.S. 43) and Concord Road (now County Road 12) in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The school was build in 1927 on land…

Hattie Crawford's fourth-grade class at Verner Elementary School is seen during a field trip to The Tuscaloosa News. Front row kneeling, left to right: unknown, Gary Parham, Morris White, Lewis Dean, Bruce Lilly and Frankie Anderson. Second row:…

An advertisement for the Tuscaloosa Female College in the 1896 Corolla, the University of Alabama yearbook.

In 1836 Baptists established the Alabama Female Atheneum which became the Tuscaloosa Female College in 1854. This building housed the…

The First Presbyterian Church of Tuscaloosa established in 1833 the Tuscaloosa Female Institute to educate young white women at the time when there was no public education for them. The building was located on the southwest corner of 9th Street and…