Alabama Reunion Train Event Covers
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Scope and Contents
The collection contains a complete set of seventeen stamps commemorating the stops made by the Alabama Reunion Train in 1989. The stamped and "postmarked" cards are in specially designed folders embossed in gold with the Great Seal of the State of Alabama. The train stopped or passed through Sheffield, Decatur, Huntsville, Ft. Payne, Attalla, Birmingham, Bessemer,Tuscaloosa, Selma, Calera, Montgomery, Troy, Dothan, Evergreen,Opelika, Bay Minette, and Mobile between May 21 and 27, 1989. Each card has a colored design on the left side depicting a large tree with a swing hanging from one of the branches and has a twenty-one cent Railroad Mail Car 1920s stamp. The cancellation on each card depicts a locomotive engine above a banner and exiting a circle where the circle says "The Alabama Reunion" and the banner says "Special". The cancellation also indicates the city and zip code of the city's rail station.
Dates
- Creation: 1989 May 21-27
Creator
- Key, Lyle (Person)
Biographical / Historical
The Alabama Reunion Special was part of a marketing and public relations campaign designed to increase tourism and economic development and to promote the state's positive image. The Special set out on a seventeen-city , seven-day tour of the State on May 21, 1989, travelling from Sheffield in the north and ending in Mobile in the south on May 27.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A complete set of seventeen stamps commemorating the stops made by the Alabama Reunion Train in 1989
Provenance
gift of Rutherford Lyle Key, 2015
General
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Processed by
Martha Bace, 2015
Source
- Key, Lyle (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Alabama Reunion Train Event Covers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- November 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository