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Historic Alabama: Building Faith

Under construction in 1960 is the chapel at Tuskegee University.

Retrospect: The history of Holt’s Central Iron & Coal Co.

Holt's Central Iron & Coal Co. installed a foundry on the shores of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County.

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Historic Alabama: Night moves

A snapshot of Ingalls Shipbuilding Co. in Decatur in 1942.

The early years of ice cream in Sylacauga

A building in Sylacauga has been home to decades of ice-cream manufacturing, most recently Blue Bell.

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Historic Alabama: Stitched into time

An early look at Baker Cotton Mills in Mobile.

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Retrospect: The Radio Products Corp.’s Superflex

Ernest W. House changed radios forever when he created a regenerative electric circuit to perfect tuning.

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