Scrapbook Collection, 1910-1961.

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Scrapbook Collection, 1910-1961.

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Two scrapbooks (1847-1948) with newspaper clippings about Alabama history, historical sites, local industries, and Auburn University alumni, plus newsletters from Delta Kappa Gamma; scrapbook with clippings about historic Alabama houses; scrapbook (1940-1941) with programs from Montgomery, Alabama, cultural events. Scrapbook with newspaper clippings (1910), arranged by county, about Alabama Senator John Hollis Bankhead and the 1910 senatorial campaign; and scrapbook (1961) with newspaper clippings concerning the Civil War centennial celebration in Alabama.

6 items.

Auburn University.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7273007

Auburn University.

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Delta Kappa Gamma Society

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Delta Kappa Gamma is a professional honorary society for women educators. Dr. Annie Webb Blanton and friends founded the Alpha Chapter in 1929 at the University of Texas at Austin with the purpose of promoting women in education and bringing respect and recognition to the profession. The Society now has over 3,000 chapters in 77 state organizations in 14 countries. On March 23, 1935, at the Nimitz Hotel of Fredericksburg, Texas, Dr. Blanton and charter member Lalla M. Odom officiated the organiz...

Auburn university

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East Alabama Male College, sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered in May 1856. Classes opened in 1859 in Auburn, Alabama, but the college closed during the Civil War. Reopening in 1866, the college became a land-grant institution in 1872 and changed its name to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The college was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1899 to 1960, when it became Auburn University. From the description of Founders Day collec...

Bankhead, John Hollis, 1842-1920

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Incorporated in Maine in 1907, the Telepost Company was an independent telegraph company using the rapid system of telegraphy invented by Patrick B. Delaney. The company operated between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities in the west. Rates were a quarter for 25 words and a nickel for each additional 10 words when the message was delivered by messenger; and 50 words for a quarter when the message was sent by wire and delivered to the post office in a sealed envelop. Th...