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Reynolds, 1920
This photo displays students of Alabama College, now known as The University of Montevallo, convened in front of Reynold’s Hall as it existed in 1920. From the very start of Alabama College, Reynolds Hall was affectionately known as The Chapel. Until…
Scene from College Night
One of the traditions of College Night is that all music, scripts, costumes, and sets have to be handwritten or drawn on paper. This source shows Scene 5 from the purple side show in 1973.
School Tuition in 1900 & 1903
The Alabama Girls Industrial School empowered women through education. Although classes offered in the early 1900s reflected what society deemed appropriate and useful at the time, the promotion of higher education for women is one proud heritage for…
Scientific Community Looks to Dr. John R. Steelman
In 1948 President Harry Truman signed an executive order that created an interdepartmental scientific research committee. John R. Steelman's job was to report on the committee's progress and recommend subjects of research. Although America possessed…
Senior Elite
Each year the graduating class at Alabama College would elect a group of elites in different fields such as art, science, home economics, and athletics. The Class of 1954 voted Dolly elite sportswoman.
Smallpox at Montevallo
This letter dated November 24th 1904 was sent by a parent of a student attending the Alabama Girls Industrial School, now called the University of Montevallo. This letter is a response by a parent having been notified of a smallpox outbreak at the…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
The General Plan for Alabama College
The Board of Trustees hired the Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects of Brookline, Massachusetts to layout the growing campus in the nineteen twenties. This is the same firm that designed the Biltmore House grounds in Asheville North Carolina as…
The Ghost of College Night
This article, published in The Alabamian, describes the College Night tradition. The author concludes with a final reference to the ghost of Palmer Hall.
The Other Side of Cows
Pictured here is the Alabama College’s herd of certified Holstein-Friesian cows at milking time. The twice-daily milking process took over an hour. After milking the cows were let out into the pasture to graze and walk around. The dairy was operated…
The Tea House
This photo shows students in the early 1950’s purchasing snacks, drinks, and other convenience items at the Tea House, one of the many purposes Reynolds Hall briefly served as the University campus expanded. By this time in the school’s history, the…
The Tower
The Tower, pictured above, is one of the most recognizable and historic structures on the University of Montevallo's campus. Erected in 1910, the Tower provided the Alabama Girls' Industrial School, the name by which the University of Montevallo was…
Title deed of the Edmund King estate, Shelby County, AL
This is an original title deed granted to Edmund King. It is signed by President Andrew Jackson.
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…
Tuberculosis Free Certification
This is a certificate notifying the Alabama College that the herd of 96 Holstein cattle, located in Montevallo, AL are tuberculosis free. The certificate was issued by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture and…
Tuberculosis Test
This is proof of a result of a tuberculin test done on a herd of 102 Jersey and Holstein cattle done on June 24, 1930. The tuberculosis vaccine was developed in 1927, but still not very wide spread. The cattle tested for tuberculosis were given an…
W. H. Trumbauer: The College Night Ghost
Like many other buildings on the University of Montevallo's campus, Palmer Hall is said to be inhabited by a ghost. The ghost in question would be that of Dr. William H. Trumbauer, an ardent supporter of the school's theater department and one of the…
What Alabama College Offers - Bulletin
The small staple bound bulletin, What Alabama College Offers, was distributed throughout the state of Alabama to promote Alabama College. It includes descriptions of the college campus, environment, and avaliable course work in a pocket size format…
Wills Hall
Wills hall was the original library at the University of Montevallo with its origins as a women’s literary book club. The building went through renovations in 1968 and was replaced as the school's library in 1969 with.the opening of Carmichael…
Wills Hall
Photograph of Wills Hall which served as the campus library at the University of Montevallo from 1923-1968. During the 1940s, Alabama College, the state college for women, was a four-year degree-granting institution for women. Wills Hall was built in…
Yearbook Photo
At Alabama College Dolly was active in campus life, participating in College Night, a Speech Tournament, and the Pi Epsilon Delta sorority. Unsurprisingly, she served as the softball team counselor. The yearbook misspelled her surname"Brunfield".