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1. 34_72_044-045 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph and Historic Sites Survey Update Form dated 2014 of 315 De La Mare Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. This building is located in the Downtown Fairhope Historic District. See 34_71_001-127 for all buildings in this District or search "Downtown Fairhope HIstoric District." This commercial building, housing Aubergine Antiques and Oriental Rugs at the time of this cataloging,sits on the site of the Men's Club, also known as the PPK Club, a ...

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. FMH_0671 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of the German Club (also known as the German-America nClub) by Frank Stewart The Picture Man dated 1916. Information for this picture is from "Stewart The Picture Man Images of Fairhope" (2017) by historian Donnie Barrett, page 142. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. FMH_0673 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph by Frank Stewart The Picture Man of the road along the bayshore in Fairhope, Alabama. This is identified as a Stewart photo in "Stewart The Picture Man Images of Fairhope" (2017) by historian Donnie Barrett. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. FMH_0892 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph attributed to Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of a boat being towed past Knoll Park to Mobile Bay in Fairhope, Alabama. According to Fairhope historian Donnie Barrett, this is the Osprey, a boat built by School of Organic Education instructor Willard Edwards in the wood shop on the school campus. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives,Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. FMH_1048-1050 - Photograph, Digital

   Photographs from the Book Signing held at the Fairhope Museum of History for Cathy Donelson, historian and author of "Fairhope in the Roaring Twenties," an Images of America Book published in 2013 by Arcadia Publishing. Ms. Donelson is pictured in period costume with Musum Director Donnie Barrett and Assistant Director Jim Bates. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. FMH_1103-1110 - Photograph, Digital

   Pictures of the 150th birthday celebration of Fairhope Founder E. B. Gaston (1861-1937). The event was held in November 2011 as part of the Round Up Day celebration - the day on November 15, 1894 when all those wishing to be a part of the new colony of Fairhope came together to start the colony. E. B. Gaston's great grandson Barry Gaston, wife Stevie Gaston and their daughter were guests of honor, and granddaughter Jessica made the cakes - a...

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. FMH-A0001 - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio only) titled "Native American Indians on the Eastern Shore" dated June 15, 2013. Fairhope Museum of History, Director Donnie Barrett is interviewed by Michael Titford. Barrett, a local historian with archaeological experience, discusses the Native American Indian presence on Mobile Bay's eastern shore from the Paleolithic era into the Creek era. Topics include archaeological findings (e.g. shell middens, pottery, tools, buri...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
8. FMH-A0002 - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio only) titled "Eastern Shore During the Colonial Period" dated June 29, 2013. Fairhope Museum of History, Director Donnie Barrett is interviewed by Michael Titford. In this wide-ranging interview, Barrett discusses the history of the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay through the transition to Colonial times from when the population was primarily Native American Indian. Topics include Native American pottery, various settlements,...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
9. FMH-V1005 - Video, Digital

   Video produced by the Fairhope Museum of History c. 2010 about the 1934/1935 Fire Truck on display. Museum Director Donnie Barrett and Museum Docent Ralph Thayer discuss the history of the truck. The truck is built on a 1934 Ford chassis, with the fire appartatus installed in 1935 by the Peter Pirsch and Sons Company in Kenosha Wisconsin. The City of Fairhope bought the truck from the Town of Hogansville, Georgia in 1955 to use for grass fire...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
10. FMH-V1008 - Video, Digital

    Video: "Journey Stories Volume 3 Fairhope, Alabama." Fairhope citizens tell how they came to live in Fairhope and about their lives here. Dated August 21, 2012. In Volume 3, seven oral histories are presented in the following order: 1. Donnie Barrett 2. Henry Crawford III 3. Jennifer Fidler 4. Lucille Fracas 5. Claude "Rusty" Godard III 7. Carrie Powell From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History C...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
11. FSTC-0151 - Photograph, Digital

    Presentation slide with label of 3 photographs about James Bellangee, a member of the Fairhope Industrial Association Locating Commttee which found the site in 1894 for the Fairhope Colony. Includes a photograph of Bellangee, a picture of his lettuce garden (with A.H. Mershon's house in the background), and a picture of Bellangee's house in the 2000s with founding director of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donnie Barrett, in the foreground. Fr...

    Record Type: Photo

    
12. FSTC-0507 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of McKean's Hardware located on the southeast corner of Fairhope Avenue and Section Street in Fairhope, Alabama. Note the traffic light which has four vertical lights. According to Fairhope historian Donnie Barrett, the bottom light was used during emergencies. It blinked red when the fire truck went out. The fire department was located at 24 N. Section Street where the Fairhope Museum of HIstory is currently located. From the F...

    Record Type: Photo

    
13. FSTC-V0003 - Video, Digital

    Video of play titled "A Fair Hope of Success" produced on December 15-18, 1994 by playwright Mark Gillespie for the Fairhope, Alabama Centennial. Thie play is set in Iowa and Fairhope where E. B. Gaston and a group of men ultimately mold Henry George's single tax theory to better reflect their own goals. Gaston came up with a plan called "true cooperative indvidualism" and that, in fact, made it not a socialist community, but one where indivi...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
14. FSTC-V0008 - Video, Digital

    Video titled The Legacy of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation produced in 2016 by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. The history of the Corporation (FSTC) and the beginnings of the Fairhope Colony are disucssed as well as an explanation of Henry George's Single Tax theory and how it is demonstrated in Fairhope. Present-day video of Fairhope, and photographs of early Fairhope and late-nineteenth century Des Moines, Iowa are included. Th...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
15. FSTC-V0012 - Video, Digital

    Documentary video dated 2002 titled "A Fair Hope" written and directed by Michael Letcher for The University of Alabama Center of Public Television (APT). Reformers (members of the Fairhope Industrial Association, later renamed the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation) founded Fairhope in 1894 to address the economic and social problems of late 19th century America by demonstrating the practical application of the single tax economic theory. ...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
16. FSTC-V0043 - Video, Digital

    Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated March 3, 2015 with Donnie Barrett. Donnie Barrett, former Director of the Fairhope Museum, provides information on why the Fairhope founders came to Alabama to set up a model community and the reform ideas they brought with them. He discusses the Populist movement of the late 19th century and the rise of the Single Tax Colony in Fairhope. This presentation had to be retaped due to technical problems ...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
17. FSTC-V0049 - Video, Digital

    Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated January 5, 2016 with Donnie Barrett. Frank Stewart came to Fairhope during the early days and brought with him a glass plate camera. By 1913 he was selling his post cards in his shop at the Fairhope Post Office. He continued photographing anything of interest up to the 1940's. The Fairhope Museum of History has over 400 original Frank Stewart photographs and many will be on the FSTC Archival site in...

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
18. FSTC-V0055 - Video, Digital

    Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated February 2, 2017 with Donnie Barrett. This presentation begins with a description of the first landing parties in 1894 and the colony they founded. Donnie Barrett, founding director of the Fairhope Museum of History and Fairhope historiian, describes many of the first settlers who contributed much to Fairhope. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

    Record Type: Archives and Videos

    
19. FSTC-V0057 - Video, Digital

    Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated April 4, 2017 with Donnie Barrett. A pictorial journey through early Fairhope. Donnie Barrett, founding director of the Fairhope Museum of History presented and discussed the history of a selection of photographs from the museum archives collection with a focus on unpublished photos rarely seen. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

    Record Type: Archives and Videos