Author: Department of Agriculture and Industries.
Title: Home Seekers and Capitalists Guide to Alabama…Get you a Home in Alabama.
Description: Montgomery, Alabama: Brown Printing Co.; Rand McNally and Co., 1904. Folding 12mo brochure (7.25” x 4”). 21 panels, color map on entire verso, 25.25” x 18.75”. CONDITION: Good, several short separations along old folds.
A promotional brochure with a map serving as a guide to Alabama for prospective home-seekers in the early twentieth century.
Picturing a “Typical Alabama Home” on the front panel, this pamphlet hails the state as one of the foremost in the Union in natural resources and thrift, inviting home seekers and capitalists alike to settle there. The text covers such subjects as agriculture, minerals, timber, the climate, manufacturing, fruit, stock raising, transportation, cotton, homes for sale, the last crop yield, public schools, cities and towns, and more. Pictured are the State Capital, Governor William Jelks, Lieutenant and Acting Governor of Alabama, Russell Cunningham, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, R. R. Poole, and scenes of Alabama life such as the Alabama River and African American sharecroppers working in a cotton field. Also included is an index to Alabama’s chief cities and their populations. The map, published by Rand McNally and Co., shows the entirety of Alabama, with portions of Mississippi and Georgia lying to the west and east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. The principal cities and their populations are listed along the left side of map; an inset map in the lower-right corner shows Birmingham and its environs.
Item #7525
Seller ID: 7525
Subject: Broadsides & Ephemera, Maps