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1. 37_2_001-008 - Cartoon

   Eight page cartoon in booklet form titled "Dem Were Da Days" by W. A. Dealy, Sr (Bill Dealy). Previously presented as a minstrel show by the PPK Club, Fairhope,Alabama, in 1916, Dealy "revamped and published for my Fairhope friends" in 1943. The prose is written in verse, tongue-in-cheek, following the style of early 20th century minstrel shows. It follows the history of the Colony and Fairhope citizens in comic form. From the Fairhope Si...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
2. FMH_0188 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated February 1916 by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of a minstrel show inside the PPK Club on De La Mare Avenue in Fairhope, Alabama. This is an unusual picture for the time in that it is and interior photograph . From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives. Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History, Donelson Collection.

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. FMH-A0004b - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) dated February 20, 1980 and April 28, 1980 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. This is the second part of an interview with Hazele Williams Payne. The first part can be heard at FMH-A0004a in these Archives, followed by other interviews at FMH-A0007a and FMH-A0007b. Mrs. Payne recounts a wide range of topics about life in Fairhope including people, parties, dances, entertainment, b...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
4. FMH-A0007a - Audio, Digital

   Interview (audio) Part 1 dated April 28, 1982 of Mrs. Hazele Williams Payne (1891-1991). The interviewer is not identified. Others interviews with Mrs. Payne are FMH-A0004a, FMH-A0004b and FMH-A0007b. In this interview, three of W. A. Dealy's comic poems are read by the interviewer and Mrs. Payne comments on the people and situations, providing fascinating and many times humorous and poignant details about early Fairhope. The first poem ...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos

   
5. 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

   
6. FSTC-V0027 - Video, Digital

   Video interview of Maxine Jowers Frederick on March 24, 1995 by Flo Coleman Schneider and Ruth E. Rockwell. Maxine Jowers Frederick, was the daughter of Robert V. Jowers and his wife. (Mrs. Robert Jowers later remarried to William Funk, who worked at Fairhope Hardware.) Maxine moved to Fairhope in 1920 when she was less than a year old. She lived on de la Mare Avenue, also known as Pig Alley. She discussed growing up in Fairhope, life duri...

   Record Type: Archives and Videos