Guide to the Theresa Adkison Photograph Collection

Record Group 037

Date processed:  6-30-2004

Processed By: MTO

Repository Information

Archives of Wiregrass History & Culture

Troy State University Dothan

P.O. Box 8368

Dothan, AL  36304

Phone:  334-983-6556 x-327

E-mail:  Archivist Dr. Martin T. Olliff  <molliff@troy.edu>

Administrative Information

Accession Number  04-0620

Date Span         1920s

Collection Size   7 digitized photographs

Biographical Sketch   Theresa Adkison responded to an appeal made to the public by Dothan Landmarks Foundation seeking photographs to be included in the forthcoming _Railroading in Dothan and the Wiregrass_, a book in the "Images of Rail" series from Arcadia Press. She contributed seven photos as listed in the inventory.

One of the photos is of Mrs. Adkison's father, Henry W. Arnold, Sr., who was a grocer in the Five Points section of Dothan and who might have been the first business license inspector for the city.

Scope / Content     Seven photographs of railroading around the Wiregrass of Alabama, including five of an event she called "The Big Wreck" n.d. Two of the photos are of a bale of cotton to be shipped via American Railway Express, one of which includes her father.

Access:  Open per donor agreement

Inventory 

 

037-04-0620-001:  Henry W. Arnold, Sr., sitting on bed of Ford truck with bale of cotton to be shipped via American Railway Express, July 22, 1925.  Arnold owned a grocery in Dothan's five-points section and is reputed to have been the city's first inspector of business licenses.
 

 
037-04-0620-002:  Ford truck loaded with bale of cotton to be shipped via American Railway Express, July 22, 1925.

 
037-04-0620-003:  Photo taken at scene of "The Big Wreck," n.p., n.d.

 
037-04-0620-004:  Photo taken at scene of "The Big Wreck," n.p., n.d.

 
037-04-0620-005:  Photo taken at scene of "The Big Wreck," n.p., n.d.

 
037-04-0620-006:  Photo taken at scene of "The Big Wreck," n.p., n.d.

 
037-04-0620-007:  Photo taken at scene of "The Big Wreck," n.p., n.d.