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The Gorgas Oak, which sat in front of Gorgas House, was named after the Confederate General Josiah Gorgas who served as President of the University 1878-1879.

The core of the tree had been rotten for sometime and in 1982 a storm came through…

Mr. and Mrs. James Anderson, a local couple living in an old faculty residence, rented rooms to coeds when additional housing was needed for women. These student boarders were known as the “Gigglers” and the house, on what is now the present site of…

Alabama traveled to Pasadena for its fifth Rose Bowl appearance, having won the first four games. A Crimson Tide win was not to be on this trip; the team was shut out 13-0 by the California Golden Bears.

Alabama football supporters at the Rose Bowl where the Crimson Tide met Stanford. From left to right: Mrs. C.B. Grimes, Miss Elinor Williams, Mrs. John Mack Brown, Miss Louise Fargason, Mrs. Gordon Holmes. The game ended in a 7-7 tie.

The post office, supply store and cafeteria building was built on University Boulevard in 1925 with funds from the Million Dollar Campaign. During that time, it housed a soda fountain, a favorite campus gathering place. After World War II the third…

The post office, supply store and cafeteria building was built on University Boulevard in 1925 with funds from the Million Dollar Campaign. During that time, it housed a soda fountain, a favorite campus gathering place. After World War II the third…

University of Alabama students Reese Phifer, Bert Bank and George McBurney, who became an attorney in Florence, Alabama, relax in the Supe Store on the University of Alabama campus around 1935.

When the University began, the direction of students was up to the professors and the disciplinary basis was a "teacher say, pupil do" arrangement.

By 1931, the SGA and the Honor System were in full operation. The officers for that year were…

A memorial stone at the Mansion House of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Alabama.

This fraternity was founded at the University of Alabama in 1856. Its founder, Noble Leslie DeVotie, was the first casualty of the Civil War.

Taken about 1859, this is the only known photograph of the original campus of the University of Alabama. The Rotunda is seen on Huntsville Road, now University Boulevard. The first floor housed chapel services. The second floor was the library.…