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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.

On December 22, 1940, the USS Tuscaloosa embarked from the Naval Operating Base at Norfolk, VA carrying Admiral William D. Leahy (1875-1959), the newly designated Ambassador to France, and his wife Louise, for passage to Lisbon, Portugal and thence…

Cadets from the British Royal Air Force march to their Army training planes at Hargrove Van de Graaff Airport June 10, 1941, as they prepare to begin their instruction by pilots of the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics. As the first contingent of…

The photographs show the installation at the University of Alabama's Manderson Landing Park on the Black Warrior River of the plaque describing the historic walk that celebrates Tuscaloosa's history and marks the location of the time capsule to be…

This postcard was mailed from France from James L. West to his father, L. H. West in Samantha.

The message says: Helo (sic) How are you all tonight? Fine, I hope. For self, getting along fine. Say I heard you all had a big snow back in the stats…

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.

Claude Smith, Barton Delbridge and Willard Christian touched up the body of this 1952 Oldsmobile in a two-toned paint job that would have cost $200 at the time. The car was to be auctioned by the Goodfellows.

A brochure prepared and published by the Tuscaloosa  Bicentenial Commision concerning the activities planned to celebrate Tuscaloosa's bicentennial from December 13, 2018 through December 13, 2019.In 2016 the City of Tuscaloosa appointed Mr. Tom…

A beard-growing contest was held as part of the celebration of Tuscaloosa's Sesquicentennial. Joe Searcy, left, took home prizes for Best In Show. The man on the right is Norbert Chabaniss. He was married to Julia Duckworth and their daughter Julia…

The "Tuscaloosan" was a Consolidated B-24 U.S. Army Air Force bomber which was the main type of bomber used in WWII. . The photo appeared in the Birmingham News-Age-Herald on Oct. 3, 1943, and the people, left to right, were Mrs. Gladstone Yewell,…