Images from the Doris Rich Collection

This collection contains 286 black and white photographs and postcards illustrating south Baldwin County's early development. The Foley and Magnolia Springs areas are particularly well documented.

 

Wenzel's Store on Chicago Avenue in Foley. At one time, the upper rooms once contained a dance hall. Later, the Presbyterians used the second floor for services.

Negative:  Rich-6

 Wenzel's Store on Chicago Avenue, Foley (33390 bytes)
Chicago Street looking north from Laurel, Foley, 1920 (37243 bytes)  

Chicago Street looking north from Laurel, ca. 1920.

Negative: C-8182
An Elberta, Alabama, hunter shows off skins from his kills, ca. 1915.

Negative: Rich-23		 An Elberta hunter shows off his skins, 1915 (26754 bytes)

July Fourth celebration, Magnolia Springs, 1912 (49988 bytes)

 Magnolia Springs, Alabama, July 4, 1912. The celebration included an oration; music, foot, boat, and swimming races; and a dance at the town hall.

Negative: C-8024
 

The Woodbound resort, a fifty-four-room hotel built before 1900, fronted on Bemis Bay on Magnolia River.

Negative: C-8126

 The Woodbound Resort around 1900 (31484 bytes)
A leisurely summer day at Orange Beach (47812 bytes) A leisurely summer day at Orange Beach, Alabama.

Negative: C-8160