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This photograph of the students in front of Main Hall at the Alabama Girls Industrial School was taken between 1902 and 1907. It is possible that Condie Cunningham would have been in her freshman year in this photograph.

Cunningham died in 1908…

Peterson Hall, originally built as an infirmary, was named for the university’s second president, Dr. Francis Marion Peterson. Construction for the building began in May 1913, and it was ready to house patients less than a year later in April 1914.…

Henry Clay Reynolds, first president of the Alabama Girls’ Industrial School, was not an educator, but rather an enthusiastic advocate for public education. A businessman and town notable, Reynolds lobbied for the state to build a school for girls in…

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…