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Mobile’s long history includes joyous Mardi Gras celebrations and
tragic natural disasters. Civil War and segregation, shipping and
manufacturing, dirt streets, and booming wharves are part of its
fascinating story. Cargo shipped to and from its busy docks
gradually shifted from cotton to timber to bananas to manufactured
goods. In World War II, its population grew exponentially as the
city became an important shipbuilder for America’s arsenal. With
a selection of fine historic images from their best-selling
book, Historic Photos of Mobile, Carol Ellis and Scotty
E. Kirkland provide a valuable and revealing historical
retrospective on the growth and development of
Mobile. Remembering Mobile transports readers to a time
of hoop skirts and horse-drawn carriages, then shows them how the
city changed during the first half of the twentieth century.
Timeless, black-and-white images capture historic colleges,
family-owned shops, the longest American flag ever displayed,
hurricane damage, social change, tall ships, and scenes of daily
life in generations long gone.
Mobile's long history includes joyous Mardi Gras celebrations and
tragic natural disasters. Civil War and segregation, shipping and
manufacturing, dirt streets and booming wharves are part of its
fascinating story. Cargo shipped to and from its busy docks
gradually shifted from cotton to timber to bananas to manufactured
goods. In World War II, its population grew exponentially as the
city became an important shipbuilder for America's arsenal.
Historic Photos of Mobile transports readers to a time of
hoop skirts and horse-drawn carriages, then shows them how the city
changed during the first half of the twentieth century. Timeless,
rarely seen, black-and-white images capture historic colleges,
family-owned shops, the longest American flag ever displayed,
hurricane damage, social change, tall ships, and scenes of daily
life in generations long gone.
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