Historic Photos of Huntsville
Huntsville is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Huntsville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Huntsville has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.
Historic Photos of Huntsville captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Huntsville’s industrial revolution from the cotton fields, to being the birthplace of many technologies that would take man to the moon, Historic Photos of Huntsville follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history.
This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
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Book details
- Text by
- Jacquelyn Procter Reeves
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 218
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Series
- Historic Photos
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Huntsville, Alabama · Alabama history · local history · pictorial history · historic photography · American cities · space technology history · Southern United States
- ISBN-13
- 9781683369592
About the author
JACQUELYN PROCTER REEVES is a historian and author whose books on North Alabama history include Wicked North Alabama, Hidden History of North Alabama and Historic Photos of Huntsville.
Reeves holds a degree from New Mexico Highlands University. She has served as editor of the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society’s Valley Leaves and as associate editor of Old Tennessee Valley magazine.
When she’s not writing, Reeves has worked as curator of the historic Donnell House in Athens, Alabama, and as owner of Avalon Tours in Huntsville. She also taught history via distance learning through Early Works Museum in Huntsville.
Jacquelyn lives in Huntsville, Alabama.