Urban and Economic Development

Contents

Companies

Individuals

Organizations

Research Collections, Scrapbooks, and Photographs

Maps

Periodicals

Companies

AVONDALE LAND COMPANY Records, 1885-1917
Description of Collection

BIRMINGHAM REALTY COMPANY Scrapbooks, 1901-1905 and 1925-1941

BLOSSBURG LAND COMPANY Records, 1889-1918

CENTRAL LAND AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY Business Records, 1886

CITY PAPER COMPANY Records, 1897-1935
Description of Collection

EAST LAKE LAND COMPANY Journal, 1886-1904

EAST LAKE LAND COMPANY AND RELATED COMPANIES Business Papers, 1886-1950

V.J. ELMORE STORES, INCORPORATED Construction Files [documentation and photographs relating to this Alabama based dime store chain]

ELYTON LAND COMPANY Business Records, 1870-1900 [the company that founded the city of Birmingham]

HIGHLAND AVENUE AND BELT RAILROAD COMPANY Business Records, 1887-1896

HOMEOWNERS LOAN CORPORATION Property Listings, 1938

JEMISON, ROBERT, JR. MOUNTAIN BROOK ESTATES Records

JEMISON, ROBERT, JR. MOUNTAIN BROOK LAND COMPANY Records

JEMISON, ROBERT, JR. MOUNTAIN TERRACE LAND COMPANY Records, 1905-1914

LOVEMAN’S DEPARTMENT STORE Business Records, 1887-1977

MOLTON, ALLEN AND WILLIAMS Real Estate Listing, undated

NORTH BIRMINGHAM STREET RAILROAD COMPANY Business Records, 1898-1899

NORWOOD TRANSPORTATION COMPANY Business Records, 1914-1921

STEEL CITY PAWN SHOP Ledger Books, 1930-1931 [located in Ensley]

WEBB, J.B. AND COMPANY Ledger Book, 1889-1890 [early Birmingham saloon]

Individuals

HEAD, JAMES A., SR. Papers, 1925-1990 [Head owned a Birmingham office supply company]

HOLT, THAD Papers, 1969-1981 [contains material relating to the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity and the Community Affairs Committee of Operation New Birmingham]

JACKSON, FREDERICK M. Papers, 1908-1931 [Jackson was President of the Perfection Mattress and Springs Company and was active in social causes, particularly the temperance movement and the Anti-Saloon League]

JEMISON, ROBERT, JR. Papers [Jemison was a prominent real estate developer in the Birmingham area for most of the 20^th century]

JEMISON, ROBERT, SR. Papers, 1885-1926

LACKMOND, CATHERINE M. Papers, 1922-1986

MENDEL, LEO Scrapbook, 1941-1951 [clippings relating to Birmingham area real estate]

MONTGOMERY, JAMES ALEXANDER Papers, 1865-1944 [material relating to coal mining, railroads, and street railways]

OTTS, JOHN M.P. Office Files, 1915-1930 [Otts served as Assistant Secretary of the Jemison Company]

ROUNTREE, JOHN ASA Alabama Good Roads Movement Scrapbooks, 1909-1917

ROUNTREE, JOHN ASA Bankhead Highway Association Scrapbooks

ROUNTREE, JOHN ASA Good Roads Movement in Alabama Scrapbook, 1909-1918

ROUNTREE, JOHN ASA Papers

ROUNTREE, JOHN ASA United States Good Roads Association Scrapbooks

SMITH, FRANK Papers [Smith served as Mayor of Elyton at the time of the 1910 Greater Birmingham Movement]

STERNE, MERVYN Papers [Sterne was a partner in Birmingham mortgage and securities firms]

TORCHMARK CORPORATION Research Material: Frank Samford, Jr.

WALD, EDWARD Waldridge Terrace Land Company Papers, 1903-1930

WATERS, NEWMAN HOSMER, SR. Papers
Description of Collection

Organizations

BIRMINGHAM AREA BOARD OF REALTORS Proceedings of the Second and Third Annual Conferences of Developers of High Class Residential Property

BIRMINGHAM AREA BOARD OF REALTORS Scrapbooks, 1927-1959

BIRMINGHAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Minutes of Meetings, 1887-1889

BIRMINGHAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Papers (Airline Service Investigations), 1967-1971

BIRMINGHAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Papers (Pamphlets and Reports), 1936-1970s

BIRMINGHAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Records, 1944-1977

BIRMINGHAM BEAUTIFICATION BOARD Records

BIRMINGHAM BUILDERS EXCHANGE Construction Guide, 1947-1979

BIRMINGHAM REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION Minute Book, 1899-1907

CAHABA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Records, 1938-1947 [relates to Cahaba Village, a federally-funded housing development near Trussville, Alabama]

OPERATION NEW BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Green Project Files

OPERATION NEW BIRMINGHAM Red Mountain Expressway Scrapbook, 1959-1961

REDMONT PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION National Register of Historic Places Survey Records, 1869-1985

UNDERWOOD PARK ASSOCIATION Papers, 1905-1956 [material relating to Oscar W. Underwood Park in Birmingham]

Research Collections, Scrapbooks and Photographs

BUELL, JOHN Mountain Brook Annexation Elections Files, 1959-1964

ONE GREAT CITY CAMPAIGN Oral History Interviews, 1995

PHILLIPS, W.B. Property Atlas, 1930s

PHOTOGRAPHS Aerial Photographs of Jefferson County, Alabama, 1966 and 1977

PHOTOGRAPHS General Collection

RED MOUNTAIN EXPRESSWAY Reports

SMITH, DENNIS Information on Birmingham and Alabama Soft Drink Bottlers [late 19th and 20th centuries]

"TRAFFIC OPERATIONS PROGRAM TO INCREASE CAPACITY AND SAFETY" Report, 1972 [report on the city of Birmingham prepared for the Alabama Highway Department]

Maps

BAIST’S PROPERTY ATLAS OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, 1902

SANBORN MAP COMPANY Fire Insurance Maps, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee

WHITSON (BETHEL W.) ORGANIZATION Real Estate Maps of Birmingham Area, circa 1930s

Periodicals

JEMISON REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE COMPANY The Jemison Magazine, 1910-1914 and 1926-1930

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