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A photograph a day from The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of South Alabama.

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This photo of the Dunbar High School Tigers was taken in October 1946, when the school was located on Davis Avenue. It was later replaced by Central High School. Shown in the photograph are (bottom row, left to right) Levi Magwood, James W. Hollins Jr., Robert Lee McAroy, and Alphonse Harris. In the middle row from left to right are Freddie Smith, Reginald Packer, Melvin Allen, Rufus Hives, Roosevelt Pompey, Cleveland Smoke, and Thomas Moppins. Coach Vernon Gavin is standing on the far left on the top row, next to Leonard Jackson, Louis Burden, Dan Morgan, George Dickinson, Edward Lewis, and Coach Earl P. Battles. S. Blake McNeely Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Portrait of woman and child, Mobile County, 1895. T. E. Armitstead Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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S. H. Goldman Dry Goods And Shoes, 1924. Bernice Centanne Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Formal portrait of a Lutheran Church group, children and adults, undated. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Oakdale Church of Christ at 867 Baltimore, photographed in 1951. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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From a 2010 exhibit of quilts displayed in the Mobile Botanical Gardens. Azalea City Quilters Guild Collection, Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, this photograph shows Kela and Harry Zarembo (at right) both survivors of the Shoah whose families were murdered. After the war the Zarembos moved Mobile and in their later life once they were settled, were active philanthropists including the donation of an ambulance to the Magen David Adom in Israel in memory of their parents. Mobile Area Holocaust Survivors Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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The Mobile Fire Department Band, undated. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Probably the best class picture ever made. From the Organic School, Fairhope, Alabama, 1910. Lois Slosson Sundberg Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Portrait of two children ordered by Mrs. W. Beroujon. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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The Lyric Theater at 251 Conti Street. The sign advertises "B. F. Keith Supreme Vaudeville" with tickets for only 15 cents! Erik Overbey Collection The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Copeland Hardware Company on a rainy day, 1920. Erik Overbey Collection,The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Child reading a comic in grocery store, c. 1940 - who hasn't done this? ADDSCO Papers, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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An iconic image of civil rights powerhouse John Leflore in  front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. under the inscription "Equal Justice Under the Law," 1958. Shoals, Patton, Jackson, and an unidentified woman stand with him. John Leflore Papers, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Henry Williams poses with the bust of Cudjo Lewis outside the Africatown church where Lewis served as caretaker. Azalea City News Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Two story house with ironwork porch, address unknown, 1930s. S. Blake McNeely Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Men shucking oysters at Alabama State Docks, 1930s. S. Blake McNeely Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.