Index to the Online Photographs in the Overbey Collection

 

Portraits, c. 1880 - c. 1960

Mobile Mardi Gras Royalty, 1907.

Miss E. Marx, ca. 1900, studio portrait

Albright and Wood car hop in the 1920s.

"Gone With the Wind" at the Roxy theater in Mobile in 1941.

Men working on the Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile, ca. 1940. 

Billups gas station grand opening in Mobile in the late 1940s

Preparedness rally forWorld War I in Mobile.

People's Drugs on  Dauphin Street in the early twentieth century.

.The Sunny South, a river boat, at the Mobile docks in 1914.

"Beach Girls" at Biloxi, Mississippi, 1920s.

Dauphin Street, Mobile's retail center in the "Roaring Twenties."

Tarpon weighing 215-Lbs. caught off Coden, Ala., in 1910

A bountiful catch at the Star Fish and Oyster Company docks in the 1920s.

Babe Ruth , Lefty Gomez, and Bill Dickey played exhibition ball in Mobile.

Cudjo Lewis, last surviving African brought to Mobile illegally.

The "Old Stove Round Up," a Mobile Gas Co. promotional parade, 1930s.