By the mid 19th century, Birmingham had one of the most prominent railroad systems throughout all of the southern states.In Birmingham’s early days, immigrants from many different countries landed there to work in the mills and mines. It is an unparalleled visual record of our state in the 20th century.How is the collection getting to the State Archives?Coleman Worldwide Moving of Dothan is donating its services to relocate the collection from Mobile to the State Archives building in Montgomery, where it will be preserved permanently.In a process that will last several years, the Alabama Department of Archives and History will scan the negatives and display the images online at the The first images will not appear online until after the ADAH conducts a preliminary survey of the collection to assess its scope and to evaluate any conservation needs. The Birmingham News obituaries and Death Notices for Birmingham Alabama area . Read 1990 Newspapers at NewspaperArchive® and search our 3.04 billion articles about 5.6 billion people with articles spanning 410 years from all 50 states and 33 countries. Copyright © 2020 NewsBank, Inc. 5801 Pelican Bay Blvd. Once scanning of the negatives begins, new content will be uploaded regularly.Selected images from the collection were scanned previously by Alabama Media Group and will remain online at Will the entire contents of the collection be posted online?In instances where a photography assignment produced multiple shots of the same scene, typically only a selection of representative images will be posted online. He died in Birmingham in 1997. This collection is the largest photographic addition to the state archives and the largest donation of any kind by a private donor. Visit the How can I purchase a reprint of a page or article from the newspapers’ archives?Color reproductions of many newspaper pages produced since 2005 may be purchased from Alabama Media Group at its Additionally, public libraries have local newspapers’ entire publication history available on microfilm and can provide black-and-white photocopies for a fee.In Montgomery, the EBSCO Research Room at the Alabama Department of Archives and History also has the newspapers available on microfilm. Instructions for submitting reference requests will be available on the Due to the special handling requirements of the collection and ongoing processing by ADAH staff, public access to the original film negatives will not be available.Alabama Media Group is helping ADAH prioritize photos of greatest interest for digitization.
Alabama newspapers Current issues of Alabama newspapers available through the Internet. Get to know your ancestors' stories—the lives they lived, their hardships and triumphs. Beginning mid-2017, newly digitized images and a searchable index will be made available online for public use.View the images as they are made available at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.View a selection of previously published photos from the archives.The collection contains more than 3 million photographic negatives produced by newspaper photographers working for The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, Mobile’s Press-Register and affiliated publications between the 1920s and the early 2000s.
Visit the The largest photojournalism collection in Alabama, with images spanning much of the 20th century. The negatives are organized generally by photo assignment in chronological order and stored in paper sleeves typically used by photojournalists for film photography.
It documents almost every aspect of life in Alabama for a period spanning more than eight decades. These keywords can be searched from within itsWhy can’t I find a photo of a particular person, place, or event?With millions of images in the collection, it will take time for the Alabama Department of Archives and History to catalog, research and digitize photos. Alabama Media Group is proud to give the Alabama Department of Archives and History a time capsule of Alabama’s history told through millions of photos that until now, have never been available to the public.More than 3 million images from The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile’s Press-Register make up this unique archival record.This collection is the largest photographic addition to the state archives and the largest donation of any kind by a private donor. With just a name and date, you can discover articles, obituaries, wedding and birth announcements, classifieds, and much more.
Discover more about your ancestors than names and dates in Birmingham newspapers.