Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly column is dedicated to former congressman and Wiregrass Archives donor Terry Everett, who turned 82 this month.
Terry Everett (born Feb. 15, 1937) of Enterprise, Alabama, represented Alabama’s Second Congressional District in the U.S. House as a Republican from 1993 until retiring in 2009. He was particularly interested in national security, national intelligence, the US military, veterans’ affairs and agriculture, all of which come from his long association with the Alabama Wiregrass…
Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly column shows a photo collection of Troy University in the mid-1950s.
“Selected Views of Troy State College” – An Artvue Post Card Co. Souvenir Booklet
In the mid-1950s, Artvue Post Card Company of New York published a booklet depicting ten buildings on the Troy University Campus. Artvue was founded in 1936, and in 1952 purchased the Albertype Company, which allowed it to publish Baseball Hall of…
Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly column examines a collection of Christmas cards dating to 1924.
The Wiregrass Archives has just received a found collection (scavenged from the curb) that contains a number of Christmas cards dating from 1924 to 1958, all sent to the same Alabama resident. With just a little bit of experience, you can see that they are fairly specific to the artwork common to their era, and…
Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly column focuses on the evolution of the railroad industry in the Wiregrass.
A resident of Headland, Alabama, from his birth in 1915 until his death in 1988, Thomas W. (Tom) Solomon had a love affair with railroads. He worked as a draftsman for the Atlantic Coast Line then with the Florida East Coast Railroad, but his real passion was photographing and painting railroad machinery and other scenes…
