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Turbine construction frame, Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
No full textWooden construction frame for turbine at Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Workman stands in front of frame; railroad and timber for construction also are seen.https://roar.una.edu/postcards/1038/thumbnail.jp
Coffee High School, Jackson Highway, Florence, Alabama
No full textCoffee High School, Florence (Alabama). Front view of the original brick structure and partial view of side addition.https://roar.una.edu/postcards/1076/thumbnail.jp
Greetings from Florence, Alabama (Cotton field and Hay bundles)
No full textDepicts hay bundles in field and cotton field in foreground.https://roar.una.edu/postcards/1080/thumbnail.jp
Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital on Alabama Street, Florence, Alabama
No full textEliza Coffee Memorial Hospital, Florence (Alabama). Front view of building on Alabama Street that was completed in 1943.https://roar.una.edu/postcards/1083/thumbnail.jp
Sixth Street, Tuscumbia, Alabama
No full textView of 6th Street in Tuscumbia, Ala. Businesses are seen on each side of the street; building on left has painted Coca-Cola advertisement. Postcard is addressed to individual in Birmingham, Alabama and postmarked 190-.https://roar.una.edu/postcards/1095/thumbnail.jp
Aerial view of Sheffield, Alabama
No full textAerial view of Sheffield, Alabama, primarily of the downtown area. River may be seen in the background.https://roar.una.edu/postcards/1108/thumbnail.jp
U.S. Nitrate Plant No. 2: At the woodchip bin
No full textView of four young boys standing on top the woodchip bin, with woman gathering woodchips and man standing on steps in front of housing for African American laborers.https://roar.una.edu/nitrateplant/1015/thumbnail.jp
U.S. Nitrate Plant No. 2: Ordnance Barracks near Block R looking northeast
No full textView of barracks housing near Block R with laborers and automobiles seen in the area.https://roar.una.edu/nitrateplant/1040/thumbnail.jp
Carl Dice Grocery and Alstine & Company Drug Store
No full text1894 photograph depicting Carl Dice Grocery and Alstine & Company Drug Store on East Tennessee Street in Florence, Alabama.
The supplemental source written Sept. 3, 1997, by Col. William Lindsey McDonald indicates more details about the history of the Carl Dice Grocery.
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1894 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CARL DICE GROCERY AND THE ALSTINE & COMPANY DRUG STORE BUILDING ON EAST TENNESSEE STREET (present location of Studio 124)
This early Florence photograph was made in 1894. It shows the isolated two story building which is now the location of Studio 124. Next door is a small barber shop.
Carl Dice was a native of Sturgis, Michigan. In 1894 he established a grocery store on East Tennessee Street in Florence. Dice was also an investor in railroad and steamboat lines. While in Florence he served one term on the City Council and was President of the Improvement Association.
In 1895, Horaca P. Lucas of Florence, who had worked as a clerk for Dice, became his partner in this store. Lucas soon acquired the entire business at which time Dice moved to Michigan where he established stores in Monroe and Wyandotte, Michigan.
In 1918, Lucas established the H. P. Lucas Wholesale Company, which became one of the largest of its kind in Florence. During his youth William C. Billy Handy who became known as the Father of the Blues drove a delivery wagon for Lucas.
Horace P. Lucas was born in 1870 in Grand, Tennessee. At an early age he moved with his family to Green Hill in Lauderdale County, Alabama. He attended the Florence Normal School which is now the University of North Alabama. Lucas served a number of years as Chairman of the City Board of Education, was a director of the First National Bank, and one of the leading members of the Poplar Street Church of Christ. Lucas was married to Janis Moore of the Mars Hill Community. Their daughter, Mollie, was married to Julian Nance of Florence. Lucas died in 1932.https://roar.una.edu/mcdonald_images/1034/thumbnail.jp
Rock Excavation in Lower Lock of Wilson Dam
No full textView of rock excavation in the lower lock for the construction of Wilson Dam.https://roar.una.edu/mcdonald_images/1063/thumbnail.jp