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Overton, Walter |
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34_24_001_024 - Brochures
Brochure c.1941 titled "Fairhope, Alabama: On Mobile Bay." This promotional brochure was subtitled "An Outstanding Summer & Winter Residence Resort." Published by the Fairhope Chamber of Commerce. Text includes a brief history of Fairhope and information about the amenities available for visitors. Several maps are included as well as illustrations by artist Walter Overton. Advertisements from local businesses are printed in the back of t...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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34_34_001_048 - Booklet
"Highlights and Highways of Baldwin: The 1939 Guide to Baldwin County Alabama." This brochure of "what to see and how to get there" is by Walter Overton who wrote the text and illustrated the booklet. From the Fairhope Public Library Collection and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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34_35_001_043 - Booklet
"Let's Talk About Alabama" by Walter Overton, dated 1941, a compiled group of sketches, illustration and history text in booklet form. Overton's illustrations and history text about Alabama (many about the Mobile and eastern shore area) were previously published in the Sunday edition of the Mobile Press Register newspaper. Here, they are compiled and published by The Goldenrod Studio of Magnolia Springs, Alabama, Claude Bagge, manager. ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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35_8_001_028 - Brochures
"Highlights and Highways of Baldwin: The 1939 Guide to Baldwin County Alabama." Includes articles, advertisements, maps, as well as illustrations by Walter Overton. Published by The Goldenrod Studio in Magnolia Springs, Alabama. This promotional brochure cost twenty-five cents and provided information on "what to see and how to get there" in Baldwin County, "America's newest playground on Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico." From the Fai...
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37_2_039 - Brochures
Brochure (40 pages) titled "What Do You Know About South Alabama?" published by the Bank of Fairhope in 1940. Cover and pages 1-3 are missing. Kirby Wharton, president of the bank, writes the forward. The brochure was illustrated and written by Walter Overton, and syndicated by the Goldenrod Studio in Magnolia Springs, Alabama. Overton produced several similar publications, some of which are in these Archives, searchable by his name. Inc...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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40_08_001-021 - Booklet
Booklet "presented by The Grand Hotel" titled "Point Clear Cavalcade 1519-1941" with maps, illustrations and cover by Walter Overton. This is a history of the Point Clear area and the Grand Hotel. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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5.9.1-215 - Letter
Correspondence of E. B. Gaston and C. A. Gaston, secretaries of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated 1934-1952. Includes general FSTC correspondence including inquiries about Fairhope as a single tax colony, inquiries about land for lease, rent bills, and other corporation busienss. 5.9.13-89 is the 1937 Nebraska Tax Commission Report. 5.9.116 is the 1939 FSTC annual election ballot. 5.9.137-138 is correspondence in 1934 about ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FMH-A0007b - Audio, Digital
Interview (audio) dated 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). Part 2. The interviewer is not identified. Other interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007a. In this interview, the rest of the 1935 "Merry Christmas Folks" poem (started in FMH-A0007a) written by W. A. Dealy is read by the interviewer. Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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PMG-1165-1166 - Photograph, Digital
Post card dated 1939 by Walter Overton of an aerial view of Baldwin County. From the Paul M. Gaston Collection, Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives
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PMG-5429-5443 - Booklet
Booklet dated 1946 titled "Fairhope, Alabama....on Beautiful Mobile Bay." This 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" promotional booklet was edited by Converse Harwell and published by the Fairhope Chamber of Commerce. Walter Overton and Claude Bagge prepared the material. The booklet includes information on Fairhope history, amenities, activities, artwork and maps by Overton, a copy of the Fairhope song, "Fairhope, I Love You," a list of Fairhope Chamber of Commer...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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PMG-5444-5470 - Booklet
Booklet (6" x 7 7.8") titled "Southland Sketch Book, The Memorial Edition, A Sketch-book of Deep South Historical Highlights" dated 1977 by Walter Overton. Overton (1893-1976), an artist based in Bon Secour, Alabama, was a newpaper illustrator, historian and publisher of many articles, features and publications about the gulf coast region. . This 1977 booklet was published posthumously as a memorial edition of the Southland Sketches. Ov...
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