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In the first photo "the Syrup Sopper," Clyde W. Price, is shown with Miss Wheelchair Alabama.

The second photo shows an advertisement in The Tuscaloosa News on April 25, 1969, in which Price congratulates the city of Tuscaloosa on its 150th…

Col. Tandy Barrett presents an award of appreciation to Joe Duckworth

Col. William Tandy Barrett of Tuscaloosa was a military hero and one of the founders of Northington Laundry.

Barrett had a long history of civic service including many roles…

Woolsey Finnell was born on October 24, 1866, in Duncanville near Tuscaloosa. He was an 1887 engineering graduate of the University of Alabama. Commissioned into the U.S. Army as a major in 1917, Finnell served in the Engineer Corps in France…

Coleman Hargrove "Hog" Van de Graaff was the second son born to Circuit Judge Adrian Sebastain "Bass" Van de Graaff Sr. and Minnie Cherokee Jemison Van de Graaff.

Like his older brother, Adrian, Hargrove attended the University of Alabama and…

Coleman Young was born May 24, 1918, in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Coleman Young, a dry cleaner, and Ida Reese Jones.

He moved with his family to Detroit in 1923. At Ford Motor Co. he became involved in union activities and civil rights…

David M. Cochrane graduated from the University of Alabama in 1938 and began practicing law in his hometown, Tuscaloosa. He won the bout for probate judge for the first time in 1959. He stood for conservative budgeting and community advancement…

Dayton Hale was president and chief executive officer of Tuscaloosa Federal Savings and Loan Association resigning in 1980 to join with his sons in a law office concentrating on the fields of energy and natural resource development. He served as…

A photograph of Mrs. Dee Davis, Tuscaloosa civic leader and camellia expert. Davis was married to the late Dr. Jack Davis, who started two camellias in the couple's greenhouse that were named after his wife. Davis is well-known across the southeast…

According to his Tuscaloosa News obituary DeVane King Jones was a native of Tuscaloosa who practiced law in the area from 1915 until his death in 1964. DeVane K. Jones was a member of the American, Alabama and Tuscaloosa Bar Associations and was…

This document from the War Department certifies that Morris Friedman completed a course of instruction at the Military Instruction Camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y. in 1916.