Alabama Polytechnic Institute

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.

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.

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.

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.