From its birth to the present, Huntsville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the city has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book Historic Photos of Huntsville, Jacquelyn Procter Reeves provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Huntsville. Remembering Huntsville captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From early days to recent times, Remembering Huntsville follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

Huntsville is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Huntsville has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Huntsville has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens. Historic Photos of Huntsville captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Huntsville’s industrial revolution from the cotton fields, to being the birthplace of many technologies that would take man to the moon, Historic Photos of Huntsville follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history. This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.