Alabama Illustrated

James L. Baggett, Kelsey Scouten Bates

• Publisher: Turner
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781684422760
• eBook ISBN: 9781618589941
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

In the nineteenth century, the people of Alabama relied on newspapers to learn about the world outside their own hometowns. Prior to the 1890s, the technology did not exist to economically publish photographs in newspapers, so some publishers employed artists to draw and engrave images of places, events, and people. Many of these engraved illustrations, which accompanied news stories, poems, and short fiction, are impressive for their detail and artistic quality. From the 1850s to the 1890s, more than 250 engraved images of Alabama were published in national and international illustrated newspapers. Alabama Illustrated contains nearly 50 of those illustrations from five nineteenth-century newspapers such as Harper's Weekly. These striking black-and-white images depict city and country scenes of everything from politics and civil war to agriculture, industry, entertainment, and everyday life, providing readers passionate about history and art a unique insight into Alabama's rich cultural past.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Portrait of Hon. William R. King, Vice President of the United States
• Residence of the Late Vice President King—His Death Place
• Scene on the Alabama River, Loading Cotton
• The Tilt
• The Amphitheatre
• State House Where the Congress of the Southern Confederacy Meets
• Inauguration of President Jefferson Davis
• Cotton-Shoot on the Alabama and Shooting Cotton-Bales
• City of Montgomery, Alabama
• The Cabinet of the Confederate States at Montgomery
• The White House at Montgomery—Rent $5000 a Year
• Union Southern Men Welcoming Our Gun-Boats in Alabama
• The City of Huntsville, Alabama
• Searching for Rebels in a Cave in Alabama
• The Murder of General Robert L. M’Cook, Near Salem, Alabama
• Stevenson Held by Union Forces and Negroes Building Stockades
• The War in Alabama—Fort Grant
• Stevenson, Alabama
• Huntsville, Alabama, from General Logan’s Head-Quarters
• Our Fleet off Mobile, View of Mobile, Grant’s Pass, and Fort Morgan
• Soldiers’ Ball at Huntsville, Alabama—Dancing the “Virginia Reel”
• Fort Morgan and the Rebel Fleet and Off Mobile
• The Federal Army Crossing the Coosa River
• Alabamians Receiving Rations
• Pictures of the South—Magnolia Grove, on the Shell Road at Mobile
• An Illegal Still in Alabama
• View of the Tombigbee River, Alabama
• Emerson College, Mobile, Alabama
• Approach to Montgomery, Alabama
• A Night Drill on the Levee at Mobile, Alabama
• Mobile—The Gulf City
• Szene nahe Leeds, Alabama, wahrend des Sturmes am 19, Februar 1884
• Berherung des Sturmes in Alabama
• The Camp Ground, The Grand Review, and The Prize Company
• The New Bridge over the Alabama at Selma
• Fiftieth Anniversary of the Montgomery True Blues
• The Recent Floods in the Alabama River—A Family Refuge in a Tree-Top
• Birmingham, Alabama—Scene in a Real Estate Exchange
• The Great Industry of Birmingham, Alabama—A Pig Iron Furnace
• Charcoal Burners
• Coke Ovens
• Wharf Scene at Mobile, Alabama
• Montgomery, Alabama
• The Attack on the Jail at Birmingham, Alabama
• Alabama—Disastrous Wreck, Near Birmingham
• Booker T. Washington
• Notes on the Engravings
• Suggestions for Additional Reading