Here are some interesting photographs from the Alabama Department of Archives and History from Bibb County, Alabama. Do you know any of the missing names?
Graduating class at a public school in Blocton, Alabama ca. 1900-1919 – “Girls made their dresses at a cost of 45 cents to 65 cents and average cost 55 cents each. (Top row, left to right: Annie Merle Farrar, Willard Thomas, Claud Howard, B. M. Huey, Jessie Winston, Eunice (?) Thomas, and Mary Wallace. Bottom row, left to right: Margaret Melvin, Mable Wallace, Lida Morse, Kate Morse, Lavella (?) McIntosh and Annie Morrison Q8851
Group of children and adolescents inside the old Baptist church in Randolph, Alabama ca. 1900 Q9451
Eight young African American women outside a school building in Bibb County, Alabama ca. 1910-1915 Q8723
Students standing in front of a one-room schoolhouse in Randolph, Alabama Q9457
My grandmother and great aunt…..bottom row middle
Hi John, you can click on the link to the picture and inform the Alabama State Archives of their names by email. I bet they would like to have their identities.
Tammie Skinner Davis this is interesting. Do you know anyone who might know some of these people? The archivists are looking for help.
My grandparents were from bibb County. He was John Fancher She was Etha Edmonds
They were pioneers and I bet that was A lot of money back then..
They look serious.
I love photographs like this. If only pictures could talk, the stories they would tell.
Margie Duncan Sparks
Helen Peffer
Leslie Stone
Audrey Garcia
Audrey Garcia
Wanda Duncan
Donna Lucas Tonnemacher
There was a column in the montgomery paper called TimesGone By. Years ago They printed an item that was then 50 years old that said that Ben Gilmer was voted best dressed at Lanier High. He had become president of South Central Bell and I sent it to him. He wrote me a note saying that the reason he was best dressed was that his mother made his shirts. He had two while everyone else had only one.
Their exit exam would be like a foreign language to today’s students. I’d fail it too.
Annie Morrison, the bottom right was my Gr grandfather’s sister
My grandfather was Ben Huey in the photo.
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