Fannie A. Steele Scrapbooks

STEELE, FANNIE A.
Scrapbooks, 1896-1924

Biography:

According to an item in this collection (file 1737.3.2) Fannie A. Steele moved to Birmingham, Alabama in 1882. She is not included in Birmingham city directories until 1902, where she is listed as the widow of John J. Steele and residing at 621 Twenty-Second Street North. Fannie Steele is last listed in the 1922 city directory residing at 2125 Seventh Avenue North.

Sources:

Birmingham City Directory 1902. Atlanta, Georgia: Mutual Publishing Company, 1902.
Polk's Birmingham City Guide 1922. Birmingham: R. L. Polk and Company, 1922.

Scope and Content:

These two scrapbooks are typical of the kind kept by American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The scrapbooks contain primarily newspaper and magazine clippings of poetry, sermons, artwork, news stories relating to history and the Bible, and health and beauty tips. Several of the clippings illustrate the racial attitudes of the time, and other clippings illustrate attitudes toward women and the concerns and interests of women. Several clippings, booklets, one greeting card, and other items were tucked between the pages of the scrapbooks but had not been attached. These items have been removed from the books and filed separately.

Subject Areas:

            Authors--Alabama--Birmingham.
            Scrapbooks.
            Steele, Fannie A.
            United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
            Women -- Alabama -- Birmingham.

Size: 2 linear feet (3 boxes)

Source: James D. Garner

Restrictions: Standard preservation restrictions.
Do not photocopy scrapbooks.

Guide Prepared by: Jim Baggett (September 2000)

File Number		Description

1737.1.1		Scrapbook, 1896 to 1917 and undated. Includes several clippings of artwork depicting characters from the Bible and historic figures, poetry, and a news story regarding the showing of the film "Birth of a Nation" in Birmingham. In newspaper story entitled "Confederate Flag Stood for Belief in Self-Government Right" the author argues that Confederate soldiers did not go to war to preserve slavery.

1737.2.1		Scrapbook, 1910 to 1922 and undated. Includes the poem "The Night After Christmas" which recounts the consequences of children eating too much. Also includes the poem "Black Mammy" by Birmingham poet Jennie Wright Howell.

1737.3.1		Unattached clippings removed from scrapbook 1737.1.1, 1905 and undated.

1737.3.2		Miscellaneous unattached items removed from scrapbook 1737.1.1, January 17, 1914 and undated.

1737.3.3		Unattached clippings removed from scrapbook 1737.2.1, May 31, 1915 to 1924 and undated.

1737.3.4		Miscellaneous unattached items removed from scrapbook 1737.2.1, 1907 to February 22, 1918 and undated.

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STEELE, FANNIE A. Scrapbooks, 1896-1924

STEELE, FANNIE A.
Scrapbooks, 1896-1924