Related Records

1. 17.17.15-16 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 5/2/1911 discussing how to handle automobiles on the wharf.

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2. 17.17.18 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 5/20/1911 reporting on how to handle automobiles on the wharf while keeping them off the railroad tracks.

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3. 17.17.22-23 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Wharf Company dated 8/17/1911 reporting general business acitivities for the Wharf Company.

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4. 30.24.1-12 - Correspondence

   Correspondence of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation dated June 1926. Included is a letter to T. E. Mann about the quitclaim deed of the S. S. Mann corporation to the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation, a letter to Norman Maddocks who is taking up the lease, several letters about taxes, and references by E. B. Gaston about his upcoming trip to the International Single Tax Conference that he and Mrs. Gaston will be attending in Copenhagen, his "Gre...

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5. 40_58_015_d - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of Eva Bebolt Berglin (Mrs. A. O. Berglin) standing beside her car in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. This picture is from a December 29, 1993 article about the Berglin family published in the Fairhope Courier. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives/

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6. BSS.370-371 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated c. 1910 (postcard has August 15, 1910) by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the E.C.Slosson and Eugene Slosson houses on Bayview Street in Fairhope, Alabama. The postcard's message sends greetings from Fairhope where the sender is enjoying the bathing (swimming.) From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. .

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7. BSS.416-417 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph postcard dated 1911 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of Edward C. Slosson and Eugene Slosson in the Sarah Jane automobile in Fairhope, Alabama. The back of the card has "Grandpa Slosson and Uncle Gene. 1911. Holsman automobile, guided by lever, and with buggy wheels. Car previously belong to Dr. Mershon. Once they were unable to stop this car. They circled the yard and finally lassoed a tree to stop the car." A greyscale versi...

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8. BSS.519-520 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph of Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, and his wife Hattie Stewart in their automobile in Silverhill, Alabama. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

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9. FMH_0036 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated July 4, 1928 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "On the Bluff - July 4-28." The location is Henry George Park in Fairhope, Alabama. People have driven their cars to picnic in the park overlooking Mobile Bay. Watermelons are on the menu and are seen in the lower left corner. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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10. FMH_0163 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of a street scene in Fairhope, Alabama, c.1940s. The picture is looking south on Section Street as it intersects with Fairhope Avenue. Several businesses are seen "Gaston Motor Company, McKean's Hardware, Fairhope Pharmacy and the Central Cafe. Another version of this picture, less cropped and with a different tone, is at FSTC-0242 in these Online Archives. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fair...

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11. FMH_0180 - Photograph, Digital

    Post Card of downtown Fairhope, Alabama. The picture is taken looking east on Fairhope Avenue. The photographer is standing at the intersection with Church Street. Photo not dated, but likely c.1930s-early 1940s. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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12. FMH_0270 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph, not dated, and of poor quality. This is the Fairhope Wharf in Fairhope, Alabama and looks east to the shore. Cars picking up passengers from a recently arrived bay boat are seen, although some steamers could accommodate vehicles on board for the trip to Mobile. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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13. FMH_0272 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph c.1920s of the four Sundberg children standing in front of the family car: Ruth, Marion, Frances and Edwin, dressed in their swim suits. Their maternal Aunt Nell (Ellen Slosson Boise), who is blind, sits in the back seat. That is likely the children's father Reuben Sundberg at the wheel. The car sports a "Fairhope" flag. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collec...

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14. FMH_0274 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of Reuben Sundberg in his car. He has just driven the car off the Bay Queen bay boat steamer onto the end of the Fairhope Wharf. No date. Some of the larger bay boats could ferry a limited number of vehicles to Mobile. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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15. FMH_0281 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, and wife Harriet Gray Stewart (aka Hattie Stewart) in their automobile in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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16. FMH_0322 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph dated November 11, 1918 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the Victory Day Parade in downtown Fairhope, Alabama celebrating the end of World War I. The picture looks northwest with Crawford's General Merchandise Store on the right, and Mrs. Anne B. Call's Pinequat shop (formerly Call's Millinery, Dry Goods and Ladies' Furnishing Shop) clearly seen. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Mus...

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17. FMH_0336 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of Greer's Grocery Store in Fairhope, Alabama. Greer's opened in 1926 and was located on the west side of Section Street near the intersection with De La Mare Avenue. Later, the store moved to the east side of the street and to the south where it is still in business today (2022). From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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18. FMH_0367 - Photograph, Digital

    Poor quality photograph by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of the view from the top of Wharf Hill in Fairhope, Alabama. Date is July 4, 1927. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

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19. FMH_0508 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of the 300 block of South Section Street in Fairhope, Alabama, c.late-1950s. The car in the foreground sits on the east side of Section Street. The new First Baptist Church building is seen on the right. The Baptist congregation in Fairhope dates to the early 1900s, and this is the third church built by the Baptists as they kept up with their growing number of parishioners. The land for this church was acquired in 1955 from Felix...

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20. FMH_0526 - Photograph, Digital

    Photograph of the Fairhope Pharmacy in downtown Fairhope, Alabama. This pharmacy was built in 1916 by then-owner Dr. C. L. Mershon, and replaced the first pharmacy building, which was a wooden structure. The well-maintained street and curbed sidewalks fronting the businesses are clearly seen along with a car. The building on the right (partial image) was built in 1913 beside the old Pharmacy and first did business as Fairhope Fruit and Confe...

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