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1. 1.8.71-73 - Letter

   Letter dated 7/17/1902 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania saying that Mr. Powell is doing great work in Philadelphia with the Vacant Lots enterprise. He says that there is nothing one man can do that would so clearly call attention to the land question. It is possible that Mr. Powell can spend a part of next winter in Fairhope.

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2. 1.8.77-80 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/12/1902 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania chastising him for not communicating enough. He feels that he should recieve information about the boat enterprise from time to time without having to ask for it. He says that "if you as secretary of the (Fairhope Industrial) association, have no time to attend to such matters then the association should have additional help to attend to its legitimate business...

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3. 31_1931_1-16 - Meeting Minutes

   Meeting Minutes of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation for year 1931 including routine business, financial statements, lease transfers of the Colony and similar actions. In addition: In 1931, the Corporation's attention was focused on transferring the bayfront park area to the Town of Fairhope. The idea had been introduced in 1921 by E. B. Gaston; ten years later the urgency became apparent to most of the Colony leaders and members because o...

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4. BSS.695-696 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, titled "Roses on Mr. Powell's Residence Fairhope Ala." of climbing roses at the residence of Robert F. Powell in Fairhope, Alabama who purchased it from W. J. de la Mare. The house was located on Church Street at the west end of de la Mare Avenue. R.F. Powell came to Fairhope in 1904 after heading the Vacant Lots Program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was an accomplished agronomist. ...

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5. vi.11.41 - Letter

   Letter dated 12/5/1907 to E. B. Gaston from R. F. Powell saying that he has resigned as superintendent of the vacant lot gardens so that he can devote all of his time to Fairhope. He wants to double the population over the next two years.

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6. vi.11.42-43 - Letter

   Letter dated 11/30/1907 to R. F. Powell from Thomas S. K. Morton, vice president of the Philadelphia Vacant Lots Cultivation Association, enclosing a preamble and resolutions unanimously adopted during a meeting of 11/30/1907 involving Powells resignation as Superintendent.

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7. vi.7.23 - Letter

   Letter dated 3/17/1908 to Hon. Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio from Joseph Fels. He invites him to visit he and his wife at their home Elmwood, Bickley, Kent. He suggests he write Mr. Gaston of Fairhope regarding a deposit. He enclosed a letter from C. Arthur Pearson, the proprietor of the London Times Standard, Daily Express, etc. and other papers with marked articles about his Cleveland work. He mentions that Pearson is a rank Torry, b...

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8. vii.3.54 - Letter

   Letter dated 8/5/1909 to E. B. Gaston from Joseph Fels saying that he homes Mr. Ring likes Fairhope, he is glad Gaston likes his type-setting machine, sends regards to Van Bavel and Koopman. He says that R. F. Powell is in Buffalo and there is a chance he may go to New Orleans to start a vacant lot association there. The agent for Fels & Co. in New Orleans, named Thomas T. Barr is interested in this.

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