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Description:: The LeMoyne-Owen Collection consists of reflections written by students enrolled in Professor Michael P. Johnson’s History 202 and 204 classes at LeMoyne-Owen College in the spring of 1968.
Date of Original:: 1968-03-28
Contributing Institution:: Rhodes College

Description:: This collection contains more than 3 million negatives taken by newspaper photographers working for the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and Mobile’s Press-Register between the 1920s and the early 2000s (mostly from the 1960s to the 1990s).
Date of Original:: 1956/1991
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: The Local Television News Collections at Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) comprise approximately 1.5 million feet of 16mm motion picture film outtakes dating from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, donated by several South Carolina television stations. These outtakes document over two decades of local people and events, as well as reportage surrounding significant moments in national and world news throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Paper holdings include teleprompter scripts from 1963 through 1979.
Date of Original:: 1955/1980
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Civil rights related materials including correspondence, business records, diaries, newspaper clippings, and photographs primarily from the 1950's through the 1960's.
Date of Original:: 1950/1969
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries

Description:: In the fall of 2019, WSFA donated its collection of historical news footage to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Included are more than 7,000 audiovisual items recorded by camera operators from the 1950s to the 2000s, along with other materials such as scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, correspondence, and newsletters. The content documents almost every aspect of life in Alabama, providing a remarkable visual record of our state in the second half of the 20th century. The footage is especially rich in regard to state government and politics, but other topics such as sports, business, and society are also well represented.
Date of Original:: 1950/2010
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: The Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection includes over 20,000 images covering a a wide range of topics, places, and individuals from throughout the state's history.
Date of Original:: 1931/2000
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

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