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Box SC1900-1949.007

 Container

Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bag

 unspecified — Box: SC1900-1949.007, Folder: 2393.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a small paper bag made to promote the University of Alabama School of Chemistry exhibit at the Alabama State Fair in Birmingham, Alabama, September 26 - October 1, 1938. There is no indication what might have been in the bag at the time of the fair. There is also a note printed on the bag stating that it was made in the "Bag Department of Gulf States Paper Corporation in their Kraft Pulp and Paper Mill at Tuscaloosa."
Dates: 1938

Papers

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.007, Folder: 4002.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes a twenty-three page autobiography of John Lawrence Hollis who worked for Alabama Power in the first half of the twentieth century. It also includes a photograph of Hollis taken in 1960, another photograph of Hollis on a pocket CD-R, his business card, and a photocopy of a photograph of Mitchell Dam employees in 1940.
Dates: 1940-1960

Scrapbook

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.007
Scope and Contents From the Collection: A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm. It documents a trip by public health officials from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, in which Mobile journalist Eyre Damer participated, following the American yellow fever epidemic of 1905 which was blamed on fruit companies...
Dates: after 1900