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Hitler Fairy
This costume, mocking German dictator Adolf Hitler, was created for the annual College Night production at the University of Montevallo in 1943.
College Night is the Homecoming tradition of the University of Montevallo. It began in 1919 as a…
College Night is the Homecoming tradition of the University of Montevallo. It began in 1919 as a…
Gen'l Stonewall Bunker Hill - Gold Side Character Sketch
This costume sketch comes from the dramatization “Lay Down dat Chicken Boy” by the gold side in 1943. The name of this character comes from both General Stonewall Jackson and the Battle of Bunker Hill. This character reflects the influence of…
Franklin D. Roosevelt Johnson - Gold Side Character Sketch
This costume sketch comes from the dramatization “Lay Down dat Chicken Boy” by the gold side in 1943. The name of this character comes from US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. The costume and character obviously play on racial stereotypes and the…
Dolores Brumsfield White at Henderson State University Softball Field
This photograph taken of Dolores “Dolly” White in October of 2007 showcases yet another accomplishment in her life, a softball field dedicated to her at Henderson State University. After retiring from her baseball career, Dolly began to work at…
Hinman Handshake
Beginning on October 15, 1917 President Thomas Palmer entered into correspondence with the Hinman Milking Machine Company based in Oneida, New York. He was seeking information about purchasing a milking machine for the dairy farm at the Alabama…
Steelman Resignation from United States Conciliation Service
Resignation letter to Frances Perkins The Secretary of Labor from J.R. Steelman as director of United States Conciliation Service
Moo Manor
The Alabama College Dairy was shut down in 1960, after fifty years of operation. The herd and the dairy equipment were sold. The Dairy barn was then converted into an apartment house. The five two-bedroom and two three-bedroom apartment became…
John R. Steelman letter to McCleery
A letter from John Steelman to Dr. E. H. McCleery concerning wolves. John Steelman corresponded with various people in the early thirties about wolves, McCleery being one of them. Steelman asked if Mcleery still had any wolves and indicated an…
Reprint of the 1995 Fritsch official Delores White Baseball Card.
This item is a reprint of the 1995 Fritsch Delores “Dolly” White Official Baseball Card. The front of this card shows a picture of Delores “Dolly” White swinging a bat in her playing days with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The…
Recommendation Letter Written to Dr. Palmer for Job Applicant
The Leland Powers School of the Spoken Word sends a letter of recommendation to Dr. Palmer on behalf of Olivia Ford, a recent graduate seeking employment as a teacher. Miss Ford sent a handwritten letter to Dr. Palmer on June 10, 1920 inquiring about…
Purple Slow Song
College Night is the Homecoming tradition of the University of Montevallo. It began in 1919 as a competition between the classes. It evolved into two sides represented by the school colors, purple and gold. In the early years of the competition each…
Admission ticket to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum event "Dirt on Their Skirts" at Wrigely Field.
On March 18, 2003 the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum sponsored an Electronic Field Trip at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. This field trip would turn the baseball field into a huge classroom and would be broadcast online nationwide. The event was…
Frances Perkins
Frances Caroline Perkins was the United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. A tireless advocate for the country's working class, she helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt bring the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. John Steelman invited…
"Dolly" and the South Bend Blue Sox
Delores "Dolly" Brumfield (White) was only 14 years old when she reported for spring training in Havana, Cuba with the South Bend Blue Sox in 1947. Dolly played one season (1947) with the pictured South Bend Blue Sox.
Photograph Lineup
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Photograph Lineup
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Telegram Between President Palmer and Dr. S. P. Capen
Gay-Teague Hotel, located in Montgomery Alabama, is where President Palmer arranged to meet with Samuel P. Capen who was a higher education specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Education (19114-1919) and subsequently the first director of the American…
Follow-up Letter to Washington
After President Palmer met with Dr. S.P. Capen, higher education specialist at the U.S. Bureau of Education, he followed up with an impassioned letter that reveals details about their exchange in Montgomery. The document encapsulates President…
The Beginning of a Four-Year College
According to this letter by president Palmer to the Alabama governor and the school's board of trustees, the first year of the four-year college was already underway by October 1922 in the home economics major--but all other majors still only offered…
1921-1922 Session Report Letter to the Governor and Board of Trustees
In the Fall term of 1921, the Alabama Technical Institute and College for women began offering a four year degree in home economics, the first of its kind in the state. Colleges all around ridiculed the institute because home economics was not on the…
1922-1923 Session Report Letter to the Governor and Board of Trustees
On February 9, 1923 a committee gathered to divide funds set aside for the expansion of the Institute’s courses of study into a full fledged Bachelor’s program. Alabama College began session in the fall of 1923. In previous years the Institute had…
Purple Stunt Staging Plan (College Night 1942)
For 1942's College Night, each side performed both a dramatic adaptation and a humorous stunt. "Flying Flossie's Flight," the Purple stunt, was the story of a trapeze artist and the psychiatrist called in to help her overcome the complex that…
Mr. Pluto - Purple Stunt Character
In 1945, the Homecoming tradition included a Stunt (comedy) and a Dramatization (drama) skit. For 1945 the Purple Stunt was called "Speak of the Devil" or "Ye Gods!", and was written by The Purple Writing Committee. Since Alabama College was still a…
Mercury - Purple Stunt Character
In 1945, the Homecoming tradition included a stunt (comedy) and a dramatization (drama) skit. For 1945 the Purple stunt was called "Speak of the Devil" or "Ye Gods!", and was written by The Purple Writing Committee. In the play, Mr. Pluto tries to…
The Cow Blanket That Can't Come Off!
An advertisement sent to the Alabama College Business Manager, W.J. Bailey, for a Cow Blanket from the R. Laacke Company. There is a letter that precedes the advertisement which alludes to the fact that it is the third letter which was sent after the…
College Night Hand Signs
One of the traditions of college night that developed later in its course were the hand signals. A purple will hold up the 'peace sign' to represent their side, and a gold will hold up the 'thumbs up' sign to represent theirs. In this source, you see…
Delores "Dolly" Brumfield White
Delores "Dolly" Brumfield White grew up in Prichard, Mobile County Alabama, where she played baseball before and after school with shipyard workers. At the age of 14 her principal gave her permission to quit school and attend spring training with the…
John R. Steelman
John R. Steelman came to Montevallo in 1928 where he taught sociology and economics for six years until 1934. During that time he distinguished himself as an educator and gained a reputation for friendliness. Few could have imagined that Steelman…
Tribute to Steelman by the Senior Class
In 1934, the same year Professor Steelman departed for Washington DC, the school yearbook wrote about his role as advisor to the senior class: “he has so loyally filled this position that he has earned a love and admiration equaled by few. His quick…
Red Bricks
The University of Montevallo's red brick streets are not as new as some people might think. The impetus for this change came from the Olmsted Brothers, a landscape architect firm, that recommended brick streets in 1930 as a way to unify the entire…
Squirrels on Campus
This letter states that the season for taking squirrels closed on February 1st and it would not begin again until the following fall. The letter was written by I. T. Quinn commissioner of the Alabama State Department of Game and Fisheries in…
President Reynolds with his Faculty
The Alabama Girls’ Industrial School opened in 1896 with a faculty of six (five women and one man) and a student body of 145. During Reynolds' three years as president, he acquired 25,000 acres of public land from Congress and built the first…