Birmingham, Alabama, 1916 – Vintage Wall Art
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Birmingham, Alabama, 1916 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Birmingham, Alabama, 1916
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Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916 was booming on the strength of Europe's war. Allied governments were ordering large quantities of steel, shell casings, and rail, and the furnaces and rolling mills along the Jones Valley ran at full pressure to fill them. Coal mines and rail yards drew new workers from rural Alabama, Georgia, and beyond, and Black laborers filled many of the hardest jobs at the mills and pits, under wage and housing patterns that kept them apart from white workers. Residents who lived through the year knew it as the start of a demand surge that would reshape the city's payrolls, its streets, and its growing neighborhoods on the slopes above the valley.
| Created / published | 1916 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alabama |
| Original scan | 5,315 × 875 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AL Birmingham 1 1916 |
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