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A display for Child Safety Week was downtown at Greensboro Avenue and Broad Street (now University Boulevard) at the old flagpole, once a landmark at the intersection. The event was sponsored by WJRD Radio. The photo features prominent local sponsors…

People line the streets of downtown Tuscaloosa for the Christmas Parade.

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.

Dance of the Vegetables was part of a pageant performed May 30, 1916 at Tuscaloosa's Centennial Celebration.

This photo shows a reenactment of a battle between Hernando DeSoto and the Indians. This reenactment was done during the Tuscaloosa Centennial of Celebration on May 31, 1916..

The Order of the Eastern Star Float is prepared to enter the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade. The organization is related to the Masons and began in 1850.

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Photo shows Tuscaloosa Police Chief William Marable with Elvis Presley on Nov. 14, 1971 when Presley was in Tuscaloosa to perform at Memorial (now Coleman) Coliseum. Presley performed in the coliseum two other times: June 3, 1975 and August 30, 1976.

On the float that participated in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade are Mrs. M.T. Maxwell, Mrs. J.C. Perkins, Mrs. H.B. Foster and Mrs. B. Turner. The building in the background is the Tuscaloosa Female College on Queen City Avenue. The Tuscaloosa…

This Fincher and Ozment float won first prize in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade in 1916. On the float are Mrs. William H. Fincher in the driver's seat, Mrs. Eugene Truman Ozment seated in the passenger seat, Thomas McAlpine Ozment and Louise…

A photo of Amanda Coupland, Tricia Lowery, and their two children after Amanda officially adopted them in 2014. The two children hold their adoption certificates.