Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, football coach at the University of Alabama, greets Governor Lurleen Wallace outside Denny Stadium (now Bryant-Denny Stadium) to welcome the governor to watch a Crimson Tide football scrimmage.
The building built for the Alabama Insane Hospital, later named Bryce Hospital, was designed by psychiatrist Thomas Kirkbride and architect Samuel Sloan, famed architect of the time. With three wings set in echelon formation, the hospital was an…
At one time, the plant on the banks of the Black Warrior River was the largest cast-iron pipe maker in the world. It survived the Great Depression and boomed during WWII and the Korean War. In the early 1980s, the foundry closed due to…
The building built for the Alabama Insane Hospital, later named Bryce Hospital, was designed by psychiatrist Thomas Kirkbride and architect Samuel Sloan, famed architect of the time. With three wings set in echelon formation, the hospital was an…
The Alston Building is located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Greensboro Avenue and Sixth Street. It was completed in 1910 on the site of the old Tuscaloosa County Courthouse, which had stood there since 1845. The Alston Building was…
Alabama Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant gets a victory ride on the shoulders of guard John Hannah (73) and linebacker Jeff Blitz (25) after the Crimson Tide defeated Auburn 31-7 in the Iron Bowl at Legion Field, Birmingham in 1971.
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…