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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…

Mrs. J.S. Harrison with Ben Harrison as driver are photographed in front of the Tuscaloosa Female College on Queen City Avenue as they prepare for the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade on May 30, 1916. Others in the photograph are unknown. The Harrisons…

Hernando De Soto and his troops are portrayed in a pageant celebrating the centennial of Tuscaloosa on May 31, 1916.

The rig of Hurdis Thomson of Northport, ready for the 1916 Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade, is shown in front of the Tuscaloosa Female College carrying ladies dressed for the occasion.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller created this float for the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade in 1916. It is composed of an Indian canoe, bound with reeds and crimson poppies filled with Indian maidens. The float was prize-winning because of its appropriateness…

The pageant illustrating the history of Tuscaloosa was performed twice on May 31, 1916, with over 500 participants in Guild Woods. This photo shows Indians who lived in the area meeting De Soto.

The Kaul Lumber Company float was one of many industrial and merchandise floats in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade on May 30, 1916. Four big horses pulled a wagon with a portion of a trunk of a large pine tree as posts at the corners, supporting a…

Representing four generations of life in Tuscaloosa, the occupants in the car are Mrs. Ann Coleman Cochrane, Lucy Cochrane Maxwell, Jeannie Maxwell Richardson, Luther Henderson Maxwell, II and Lucy Maxwell Richardson, later Mrs. Bibb. The unique…

Model T's participating in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade in 1916. Notice the trolley tracks turning the corner.

The Neilson-Smith Shoe Company float in the Tuscaloosa Centennial Parade on May 30, 1916, was composed of "a large shoe mounted on a dray and Mr. Neilson as 'Old Mother Hubbard' sat in the heel of it, complacently smoking a cob pipe, as her children…