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FMH_0540 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of Frank Stephens (1859-1935). Stephens was an artist, sculptor and activist who founded the single tax colony of Arden, Delaware with William Lightfoot Price in 1900. This photo is from a lecture tour flyer. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.
Record Type: Photo
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FMH_0542 - Photograph, Digital
Photograph of George L. Rusby, single-tax advocate and New York businessman, who became a member of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation in 1903. The photo is advertising Rusby's lectures. He is under manangement of the Henry George Lecture Association. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Fairhope Museum of History Collection.
Record Type: Photo
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FSTC-V0041 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated January 1, 2015 with Anna Coleman Myers and Reed Myers. Anna and her husband, Reed, discuss her grandfather, Clement L. Coleman, who was a founder of Fairhope and their years as students at the Organic School. They discussed their youth in Fairhope and the activities, folkdancing, the gullies, bay boats, and early Fairhope. 1 hour Video. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0042 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated February 3, 2015 with Maggie Mosteller-Timbes who portrays Marietta "Aunt Mettie" Johnson. The School of Organic Education at Fairhope, Alabama began in a little cottage in the fall of 1907. It grew to a campus of ten acres and was one of the country's first progressive schools. Marietta Johnson lectured extensively in the United States and abroad. She was a legend in her own time and far ahead in her ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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
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FSTC-V0044 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated April 7, 2015 with George Gilmore. The focus of this talk is the development of the "single tax" idea from Henry George through the idealism of the Des Moines Single Tax Club and its secretary, E.B. Gaston to the founding of Fairhope in 1894. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0045 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated May 5, 2015 with C. C. "Peco" Forsman This lecutre is an overview of Forsman's book, "She's Bound to be a Goer!" and how the steamboat business was a key element in the early period of Fairhope and the greater Mobile bay area including the economic growth of Fairhope and the economic rivalry between competing steamboat companies. Various steamboat tragedies are outlined and the story of the gradual end...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0046 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated June 2, 2015 with Alison Holt Knight. Shuah S. Mann was one of two people who located the site for Fairhope for the demonstration of the economic theory of the Single Tax. As a great great grandaughter of Shuah Mann, Alison discussed 5 generations of the Mann family, their contributions to Fairhope's development, and the artistic and intellectual environment of Fairhope. 1 hour video. From the Fa...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0047 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated July 7, 2015 with Dean Mosher. From the beginning of the colony in 1894, theatre, opera, painting and writing have been an integral part of Fairhope's culture and identity. 1 hour video. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0048 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated August 4 2015 with George Gilmore and Carol Saltz. Overview of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation's contributions from the very beginning of the founding in 1894 until 2015. How the Federal Income Tax changed the emphasis on single tax and how to FSTC continues to contribute significantly to the quality of life in our city. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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
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FSTC-V0050 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated February 2, 2016 with Mary Lois Timbes-Adshead. This lecture describes life in Fairhope in 1916, before WWI and includes people and anecdotes of famous visitors to Fairhope before and after that time. Of special interest is her unique ability to capture the look and mood of the village as it once was, with photographs and stories of people who were an important part of Fairhope's early days. 1 hour...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0051 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated March 3, 2016 with Marion "Pinky" Bass. Marion "Pinky" Slosson Bass presented a pictorial lecture as part of the 2016 Fairhope History Lecture Series. Her great- grandparents Slosson were neighbors of Frank Stewart, the Picture Man in Silverhill before both families moved to Fairhope in the early 1900's. Stewart taught photography to her grandmother Lois Slosson Sundberg, who left a collection of ove...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0052 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated April 5, 2016 with Dean Mosher. The writings of Henry George, the most widely read political economist of his age and one of the most influential reformers in American history. According to George, poverty, exploitation, lack of opportunity, and the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege resulted from the monopoly of scarce resources and the private ownership of land. His principal proposal was ...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0053 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated May 3, 2016 with Alan Samry. Have you seen it? It's a construction block. It's orange -red color is unmistakable. For nearly a century this building block, and other clay-fired products, were used in the construction of many buildings, sometimes visible, but often hidden behind stucco. Businesses, homes, farms, and outbuildings were all built with this Fairhope product. 1 hour video From the F...
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0054 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated January 1, 2017 with Alison Knight and Catherine King The FSTC Archives Committee cataloged the documents of the FSTC and they are now available online. This collection tells the story of the founding of the Single Tax Colony in 1894 by Populist reformers and the development of the community. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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
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FSTC-V0056 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated March 3, 2017 with John Nelson. History of Fairhope's love of the arts - the Arts and Crafts Festival, then and now. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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FSTC-V0056 - Video, Digital
Lecture Series on Fairhope History dated March 3, 2017 with John Nelson. History of Fairhope's love of the arts - the Arts and Crafts Festival, then and now. 1 hour video From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.
Record Type: Archives and Videos
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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