Historic Photos of Mobile
Mobile's long history includes joyous Mardi Gras celebrations and tragic natural disasters. Civil War and segregation, shipping and manufacturing, dirt streets and booming wharves are part of its fascinating story. Cargo shipped to and from its busy docks gradually shifted from cotton to timber to bananas to manufactured goods. In World War II, its population grew exponentially as the city became an important shipbuilder for America's arsenal.
Historic Photos of Mobile transports readers to a time of hoop skirts and horse-drawn carriages, then shows them how the city changed during the first half of the twentieth century. Timeless, rarely seen, black-and-white images capture historic colleges, family-owned shops, the longest American flag ever displayed, hurricane damage, social change, tall ships, and scenes of daily life in generations long gone.
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Book details
- Author
- Carol Ellis
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › History - Topics
- Mobile, Alabama · local history · black-and-white photography · pictorial history · Mardi Gras · Civil War · World War II · historic American cities
- ISBN-13
- 9781684420100
About the authors
CAROL ELLIS is co-author of Historic Photos of Mobile and Remembering Mobile, both published with Scotty E. Kirkland. Ellis earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of South Alabama and served as Archivist there beginning in 2005, before being named director of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2010. She served on the executive boards of the Society of Alabama Archivists and the Gulf South Historical Association.
SCOTTY E. KIRKLAND is a historian and co-author of Historic Photos of Mobile and Remembering Mobile. Kirkland earned a bachelor’s degree from Troy State University Dothan in 2005 and a master’s degree in history from the University of South Alabama in 2009. He has held positions at the University of South Alabama Archives, the History Museum of Mobile, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History, where he serves as exhibits and publications coordinator. His articles have appeared in The Alabama Review, Alabama Heritage, Mobile Bay Magazine, the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and the Encyclopedia of Alabama.