Alabama Polytechnic Institute

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Photographs of the API campus, including many landmark buildings. Other photographs document university officers, athletic teams and the marching band, campus social events, city of Auburn scenes, and Dean personal photos. A number of these photos appear in the 1925 Glomerata.

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This collection contains letters and ephemera that showcase Fitzpatrick's time at the university.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of five items: a photocopy of a newspaper article about Walter L. Fleming being inducted into the Alabama Hall of Fame; an advertisement for the book "The Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J.C. Lester and D.L. Wilson With Introduction and Notes by Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D."; a letter from W.L. Fleming to his mother and father describing his boarding arrangements as an Auburn college student, as well as a flood in the library (January 6, 1894); a...

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This collection contains some of Gatchell's personal effects such as Christmas greeting cards, photographs, and a scrapbook.

Scope and Contents The first work in this accession, "Reflections from the spring of '84: now...in memory..." publication was compiled by a group of 10 English teachers from the southeast Alabama region. Dr. Graves served as the coordinator of this seminar which was held at Enterprise State Community College in 1984. The contents include short personal accounts from each participant of the seminar including two authored by Dr. Graves himself, "A Note on the Composing Process" and "Dreams and Expectations." The...

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This collection includes a scrapbook containing photographs, newspaper clippings, and other memorabilia regarding athletics, fraternities and sororities, as well as other aspects of student life including jokes and poems, valentines, and campus events at API in the late 1920s. Scrapbook also contains articles about and photographs of Forrest (Fob) James, Sr., father of Alabama Governor Fob James, Jr.

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This collection contains photographs and recollections of Charles B. Koehler and Ken Mattson. They recall dealing with segregation on buses and sitting in the back on purpose. They also mention living on campus in small cottages, eating interesting meals-fried oysters and Orange Crush, visiting surrounding towns, and marching exercises. They also recollect the training they received at API. The photographs are of assemblies of the sailors at API.

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This collection contains a journal listing results of chemical analyses performed at the State Chemical Laboratory located at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Tests were performed on samples of fertilizers, guano, and soil supplements manufactured in Alabama and other states under the direction of State Chemist N.T. Lupton.

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This accession consists of photographs taken by John L. McGrady documenting the lives of the veteran students and their families who lived in the trailer court at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API, now Auburn University) in the late 1940s following the Second World War.