Box SC1850-1899.004
Container
Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:
Roar of the Crowd, with the One and Only Joe Louis (Movietone Biography), 1953
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1953
Two Tuscaloosa Yellow Fever broadsides, 1878
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.01
Scope and Contents
Two broadsides regarding yellow fever in Tuscaloosa. The first, "No Yellow Fever in Tuscaloosa" printed handbill (9" x 6"), informed citizens that although two visitors to Tuscaloosa from Vicksburg had succumbed to the fever, in the following two weeks, no one in Tuscaloosa had fallen ill of the disease. The second, "Mayor's Office" handbill (6 3/4" x 4 1/8"), signed by then mayor O. Berry, informed cities that had enforced a quarantine against Tuscaloosa to rescind that order, as the town...
Dates:
1878