Fort McClellan (Ala.)

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Walter Jones’s family; National Guard encampment, field inspection, ceremony, and various training at Fort McClellan, Alabama; and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Walter Jones’s family; National Guard encampment, field inspection, ceremony, and various training at Fort McClellan, Alabama; and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; Walter, Hazel, and Nelson Jones; Dismals Canyon, Franklin County, Alabama; scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; Jessie Gorgas's grave at Evergreen Cemetery; Colonel Butler's war table, ROTC, The University of Alabama; other Jones family members; plants in Mobile County, Alabama; houses at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama; and fraternity pin and other items.

Overview This collection consists of one photographic album containing 129 silver gelatin prints portraying life at Fort McClellan, Alabama—one of four major prisoner of war camps in the state—in June 1943. Private Charles W. Christopher of the Military Police Escort Guard, a branch of the United States Army, collected and arranged the images into the album.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting students, buildings, and scenes at The University of Alabama campus; Walter, Hazel, and Nelson Jones; Dismals Canyon, Franklin County, Alabama; scenes around Huntsville, Alabama; Jessie Gorgas's grave at Evergreen Cemetery; Colonel Butler's war table, ROTC, The University of Alabama; other Jones family members; plants in Mobile County, Alabama; houses at the Cedars Farm in Huntsville, Alabama; and fraternity pin and other items.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Walter Jones’s family; National Guard encampment, field inspection, ceremony, and various training at Fort McClellan, Alabama; and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Walter Jones’s family; National Guard encampment, field inspection, ceremony, and various training at Fort McClellan, Alabama; and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Walter Jones’s family; National Guard encampment, field inspection, ceremony, and various training at Fort McClellan, Alabama; and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 100 photographs depicting Walter Jones’s family; National Guard encampment, field inspection, ceremony, and various training at Fort McClellan, Alabama; and Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.

Overview Includes personal and family photographs, as well as photographs taken in association with Jones' professional endeavors as state geologist of Alabama and during his military service in World War I and World War II.