2012 Photos of the Month
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December 2012
The Reiss Mercantile Company held an annual Christmas parade as a promotional event
for their toy department. This one, circa 1925, rolls up Government Street past the
Government Street Presbyterian Church.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: N-4267.
Students celebrate the results of the SGA elections inside the student center, April
24, 1980.
University of South Alabama Public Relations Collection.
November 2012
Workers at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company pause during the work day
to give thanks on Thanksgiving Day, 1943.
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Collection. Negative: ADDSCO-429A.
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ students in front of the Whiddon Administration Building during a political
rally in 1968.
University of South Alabama Public Relations Collection.
October 2012
Trick or Treat! Whether ghost or ghoul, angel or devil, ballerina or racecar driver,
we all love to dress up for Halloween—just as these people did 90 years ago.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: N-4231A.
On October 20, 2012, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ celebrates homecoming. In this circa 1975 photo, Cliff McKay,
Linda Larson, Lois Richards, and Gary Ledbetter do too.
University of South Alabama Public Relations Collection.
August 2012
August is back-to-school month. These children attended the Mobile County Training
School, a segregated school for Mobile's African Americans. They posed for this photograph
in front of a monument honoring the school's first principal, Isaiah Whitley, in 1937.
Most of the children are identified.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: N-2602.
Professor James Kennedy, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ's first African American instructor, at the university's
20th anniversary celebration in 1984.
University of South Alabama Public Relations Collection.
July 2012
An unidentified boy rides his tricycle, circa 1925.
Erik Overbey Collection. Negative: N-7056.
The ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ mascot, Mischka, April 2, 1988.
University of South Alabama Public Relations Collection.
June 2012
