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1950_May_Dir - Telephone Dir
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company telephone directory published May, 1950 for the Fairhope, Alabama and Bay Minette, Alabama exchanges. Includes phone numbers and addresses for homes and business, as well as a Classified section (Yellow Pages) for business advertisements. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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40_31_001-036 - Newspaper
Newspaper supplement of the Fairhope Courier (Gulf Coast Media) dated Jyly 2-3, 2008 titled "City of Fairhope 1908-2008 Glorious Fourth Edition." Includes photographs and articles about the history of Fairhope and the beginnings of the municipality in 1908. Some topics: Boy Scout Troop 47, local churches, Fairhope Museum of History dedication, Pottery, movie theater, School of Organic Education, Kudzu vines, Fairhope gullies, Greeno Masonic ...
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40_32_001-024 - Newspaper
Newspaper supplement recognizing Baldwin County's Bicentennial in 2009. Published by Gulf Coast Newspapers on November 4-5, 2009 and titled "Heritage Harbor Days - Celebrating Baldwin Coumty's Bicentennial." Includes articles on Baldwin County history, the USS Alabama, Fairhope Museum of History, Fire Towers, Quilters and Logging. In addition many photographs of Baldwin County communities are included. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corp...
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FMH_0123 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph taken after 1936 of City Hall in Fairhope, Alabama. Other pictures of this building, which was built by Forster and Sons in 1928, are available in these online Archives and can be accessed using keywords "city hall" in parentheses. This building by renovated in 2007 as a joint project with the City of Fairhope and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation to house the Fairhope Museum of History (opened 2008). From the Fairhope Si...
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FMH_0713 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of a Sunday School picnic at Bailey's Creek in Point Clear, Alabama. Swimmers are in the foreground, with other people gathering in the distance under the trees. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.
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FMH_0736 - Photograph, Digital
Professional portrait photograph of an unidentified African American woman. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.
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FMH_0796 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of people on horses and in buggies traveling through the piney woods in what is likely Baldwin County, Alabama. This very clear picture shows good detail of the buggies, horses and people. No date and no exact location for this photograph. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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FMH_0797 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph (poor quality) of the James A. Carney bay boat steamer docked in Mobile, Alabama. The Carney saw service on Mobile Bay from 1894 until she was wrecked in the hurricane of 1916. The Carney was the bay boat which transported Fairhope's founders to the eastern shore from Mobile to establish the colony of Fairhope on November 15, 1894. See other photos of this bay boat steamer by using keyword "Carney" in these online Archives. Fr...
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FMH_0802 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph dated June 30, 1910, by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of shade tobacco being cultivated by the W. S. Harvey Tobacco Company in Robertsdale, Alabama. A young girl in a hat tends the tobacco. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History
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FMH_0822 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "Battles, Ala." Mr. Stewart took the picture of the resort community of Battles Wharf (Battles), Alabama looking east to the shore. The long wharf where bay boat steamers arrived is seen as is the Battles Pagoda, and several of the buildings along the shore. Frank Stewart made many of his photographs into post cards. Here, someone has written "Enjoying myself immensely fishing and driv...
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FMH_0823 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph c.1914 titled "Lespedeza Hay on Longview Farm. Foley, Ala." The man standing on the right is identified as "Huff." P. W. Huff was the owner or manager of Longview Farm. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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FMH_0824 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of a couple in a car parked in front of a house in Robertsdale, Alabama. The young woman has on heavy, long gloves and is at the wheel of the car. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History.
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FMH_0826 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "The Bay Shore, Battles, Ala." Battles Wharf (aka Battles), Alabama was, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a popular resort along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay. Located between Fairhope on the north and Point Clear on the south, Battles had two hotels, the Beach Hotel and the Battles Hotel. In this photograph, the Beach Hotel is out of the picture's frame, but photographer...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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FSTC-0143 - Photograph, Digital
Presentation slide with label of 3 photographs of the Fairhope Museum of History, formerly City Hall. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-0154 - Photograph, Digital
Presentation slide with label showing photographs of models of bay boats from a 2015 exhibit at the Fairhope Museum of History in Fairhope, Alabama. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
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FSTC-0302 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of the Magnet Theater in Fairhope, Alabama, built by Judge Edward P. Totten in 1924 at the southeast corner of Fairhope Avenue and Church Street. Architect was J. Platt Roberts of Mobile, Alabama. It later became the Playhouse Theater and the Fairhope Theater. It burned in 2011. There are several of the wooden seats seen in the picture in the collection of the Fairhope Museum of History. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation...
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FSTC-V0074 - Video, Digital
VIDEO of 2025 Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Lecture Series Title: Henry Stuart's Correspondence, Diaries & Photographs: New information from the Hermit of Montrose. Date: January 28, 2025, Run Time: 1 hour 26 minutes. Presentation by Catherine King was given as part of the 2025 Fairhope Single Tax Lecture Series. The Lecture discusses new information donated to the Fairhope Museum of History by Henry Stuart's family. Included are ph...
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