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Every photograph on this site is public domain or Creative Commons, and every photographer is credited here.
The images on this site come from the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Farm Security Administration by way of the Library of Congress (public domain), and from photographers who published their work under Creative Commons licenses on Wikimedia Commons. Attribution is a condition of those licenses.
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Norwood Boulevard, Norwood | Norwood | Lahti213, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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McDowell Memorial Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Norwood | Norwood | Mthunter58, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Bethel Baptist Church, Collegeville — a National Historic Landmark of the civil rights movement | Collegeville | Jet Lowe, Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The 3200 block of 29th Avenue North, Collegeville | Collegeville | Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The 3200 block of 29th Avenue North, Collegeville | Collegeville | Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The Bethel Baptist parsonage and guardhouse, Collegeville | Collegeville | Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Bethel Baptist Church, 3200 28th Avenue North, Collegeville | Collegeville | Ron Cogswell, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | Source |
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Shady Grove Baptist Church, Collegeville | Collegeville | Quentin Melson, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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North Birmingham and Collegeville looking south toward downtown | North Birmingham | Jet Lowe, Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Slossfield Community Center, listed on the National Register of Historic Places | North Birmingham | Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Slossfield Community Center | North Birmingham | Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Slossfield Community Center | Evergreen | Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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The Finley Roundhouse, built 1915 as part of the Southern Railway's Finley Yard | Evergreen | Finleyman9819, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Sardis Baptist Church, Birmingham | Fountain Heights | Quentin Melson, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Birmingham houses photographed for the Farm Security Administration, 1936 | Fountain Heights | Walker Evans, Farm Security Administration (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Downtown Birmingham seen from Oak Hill Cemetery | Fountain Heights | Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source |
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A shotgun house on Third Street in Thomas, a Jefferson County mill village | Thomas (Jefferson County) | Diesing, David H., creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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A pyramid-roofed worker cottage on Third Street, Thomas | Thomas (Jefferson County) | Diesing, David H., creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Worker housing along Seventh Street, Thomas | Thomas (Jefferson County) | Deising, David, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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A double two-room house with side porches, Edgewater | Edgewater (Jefferson County) | Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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A worker house with a columned porch, Edgewater | Edgewater (Jefferson County) | Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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A bungalow cottage built as Tennessee Coal and Iron worker housing | Jefferson County | Lowe, Jet (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The Joseph Martin House, 4502 Sixth Avenue | Birmingham | Jet Lowe Related names: Benz, Sue, transmitter (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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A double two-room cottage on Cedar Street | Jefferson County | Lowe, Jet (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Front porch window detail, Benjamin Pinckney Worthington House | Birmingham | Unknown (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The Jordan House | Birmingham | Sharon Phelan Evans, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source |
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The Thompson House | Birmingham | Sharon Phelan Evans, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source |
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Thomas School, Second Avenue North | Avondale | Lowe, Jet (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The Mill School at Avondale | Avondale | Hine, Lewis Wickes; National Child Labor Committee Collection | Public domain | Source |
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St. Luke AME Church, 28th Street North | Birmingham | Unknown (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Harmony Street Baptist Church | Birmingham | Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church | Birmingham | Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Streetscape at South Elyton Baptist Church | Birmingham | Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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St John the Evangelist, North Birmingham | North Birmingham | Brianboru100, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church | Birmingham | Unknown (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Bethel Baptist Church, Collegeville — eastern elevation | Collegeville | Lowe, Jet Related names: Shuttlesworth, Fred Lee; Alabama Christian Mo (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Avondale Park | Avondale | Lahti213, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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The pond at Avondale Park | Avondale | Lahti213, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Source |
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Railroad Park, downtown Birmingham | Birmingham | Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
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Rickwood Field | Birmingham | Related names: Lavoie, Catherine, transmitter Klugh, transmitter (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The 2100 block of 2nd Avenue North | Birmingham | Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Source |
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20th Street looking south from Linn Park toward Red Mountain | Birmingham | Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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Morris Avenue | Birmingham | Unknown (Library of Congress) | Public domain | Source |
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The Birmingham skyline | Birmingham | Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, via Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Source |
Photographs are cropped and resized for the web. Several carry a share-alike condition; see each license for terms. Replacing these with the organization's own photography removes all of these obligations.