Magic City Designs; A Landscape History of Birmingham
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Magic City Designs; A Landscape History of Birmingham

Designs on Birmingham: A Landscape History of a Southern City and Its Suburbs This illustrated, seventy-page publication of the Birmingham Historical Society offers perspective on the city’s planning and development, from its earliest phases through 1989. This guide to designed landscapes of metropolitan Birmingham includes a collection of essays, photographs, plans, drawings, and maps, providing…

December 7th, 1941: A Day That Changed History
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December 7th, 1941: A Day That Changed History

Eighty years ago on December 7, shortly before 8 a.m., hundreds of Japanese aircraft dove from the sky in a surprise bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, a United States naval base in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans (including civilians) and wounding over 1,000. The Japanese managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval…

Chip Cooper’s Photographic “Memories”; A Visual Artifact of Memory, Place and Time
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Chip Cooper’s Photographic “Memories”; A Visual Artifact of Memory, Place and Time

Chip Cooper’s photographs of Alabama resonate with a sense of time, past and passing. Printed in vivid color, these varied images may depict the reflections in the window of a beautiful old door, a dogwood in autumn, or the old local grocery store. Cooper reveals structure, not only in a length of fence, or the…