Photograph Collections
| Name | Valeria Wheeler Cochron Photographs |
| Dates | 1910-1920 |
| Extent | .10 cubic foot |
| Historical Note |
Valeria Bell Wheeler was born October 21, 1889, in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, the oldest child of Lillian Parr and Ulysses Grant Wheeler. Her family moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the 1890s. After her father’s death in 1897, the family moved to Cairo, Illinois. In 1912 Valeria Wheeler graduated from the St. Thomas Hospital School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee. She then worked as a private duty nurse in Huntsville, Alabama. On February 17, 1917, she married S. George Cochron, a Nashville watchmaker. The Cochrons had no children, but they eventually adopted George’s teen-aged nephew. George Cochron died on February 11, 1950, and Valeria Wheeler Cochron died on January 27, 1973. They are buried in Marion, Kentucky. |
| Scope and Contents |
Contains 50 black-and-white snapshot photographs of Cochron, her friends, family and a few of the doctors she knew in her nursing career. |
| Arrangement | None |
| Accession Number | M2000-12P |
| Provenance | Donated to the UAB Archives in May 2000 by a great-niece of Valeria Wheeler Cochron. |
| Copyright | The UAB Archives owns the copyright to some of the material and maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection. |
| Fnding Aid | Printed descriptive guide by Donnelly F. Lancaster, revised by Tim L. Pennycuff, available in repository. |
| Access Points |
Cochron, Valeria W., d b. 1889-1973 |
| Document Types |
Photographs |
| Location | Photograph Stacks |
| Related Series |
n/a |
| Physical Condition | Acid free folders and an acid free box. |
This page created 2011 and last updated 2018
Copyright: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees
| Name | Ken Ives Studio Photographic Collection |
| Dates | 1956-1966 |
| Extent | 1 cubic foot |
| Historical Note |
The Ken Ives Studio operated from 1903 Cahaba Road, English Village in Mountain Brook, Alabama. No other information is known at present. |
| Scope and Contents |
The materials in this small collection consists of 38 prints and 731 negatives of The University of Alabama School of Dentistry taken by the photographic studio of Ken Ives. The material appears to have been taken for use in the Dentala, the yearbook of the School of Dentistry of the University of Alabama. |
| Arrangement | Separated into prints and negatives series and loosely arranged chronologically within each. |
| Accession Number | M1996-06P |
| Provenance | Transferred to the UAB Archives from the Reynolds Historical Library. |
| Copyright | The UAB Archives maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection; the current holder of the copyrights to these materials is unknown. |
| Fnding Aid | Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository. |
| Access Points |
Dental personnel z Alabama z Birmingham |
| Document Types |
Photographs |
| Location | Photograph Stacks |
| Related Series |
None |
| Physical Condition | Acid free folders and an acid free box. |
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Copyright: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.
| Name | Slossfield Photograph Collection |
| Dates | 1934-1940 |
| Extent | 1 cubic foot |
| Historical Note | In August 1934 a baseball field was dedicated in an industrial area of north Birmingham. The construction of the field was made possible by the City of Birmingham Park and Recreation Board, the American Cast Iron and Pipe Co. (ACIPCO), and Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. Named Sloss Field in honor of the contributions of the Sloss-Sheffield Co., and its president Hugh Morrow, the ball field was constructed as a recreational site for African American employees of the steel industries. Over 50,000 of Birmingham’s African American citizens resided within a two-mile radius of the new field. Soon after the opening of the field, city officials and W. D. Moore, president of ACIPCO, secured federal funding through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to construct a new community center in the surrounding neighborhood. On November 11, 1937, a formal dedication ceremony was held for the opening of the first two buildings of the center, the Administration Building and the Youth Training Center. Soon, the center also hosted a branch of the Birmingham Public Library System and on February 4, 1938, the Slossfield Health Center was dedicated as the third building. In 1939 the Recreation Building would be completed as the final building at Slossfield. Prior to the opening of the Health Center, weekly afternoon health clinics had been held in the Slossfield Administration Building. Federal, state, and city funding had made possible the construction of the Health Center along with the Chicago-based Julian Rosenwald Foundation. In a contest sponsored by International Harvester Co., in conjunction with the American Negro Exposition held in Chicago in 1940, Birmingham’s Slossfield was selected as the “most outstanding” African American community center in the United States “from the point of view of service to its residents.” The Slossfield Health Center is important in the history of Birmingham as it was one of the first “modern” facilities constructed for African American patients and staffed by African American physicians and nurses. When opened in 1938, the center had one full time physician and six nurses; by 1944 the staff included thirteen physicians who served in a part-time basis and five physicians who were full-time. Operating under the auspices of the Jefferson County Health Department, the center also had the service of numerous local white physicians who served as consultants. Funding for the center proved problematic in the post-World War II period and the Slossfield Health Center was closed in 1948. |
| Scope and Contents | Contains 114 prints and numerous negatives that document the history of the Slossfield Community Center, including the Youth Training Center, adult vocational education activities, and the Slossfield Health Center |
| Arrangement | By prints and negatives |
| Accession Number | M95-05P |
| Provenance | Originally donated to the JCMS/UAB Health Sciences Archive and later transferred to UAB after that repository was disbanded. |
| Copyright | The UAB Archives maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection. |
| Fnding Aid | Printed descriptive guide by Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository. |
| Access Points | African Americans x Medical care z Alabama z Birmingham. Slossfield Community Center (Birmingham, Ala.). Health facilities. Urban poor z Alabama z Birmingham. |
| Document Types | Photographs. Negatives. |
| Location | Photograph Stacks |
| Related Series | n/a |
| Physical Condition | Acid free folder, acid free box |
This page created 2014
Copyright: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.
| Name | Tinsley R. Harrison Photograph Collection |
| Dates | 1890-1978 |
| Extent | 1 cubic foot |
| Historical Note | Tinsley Randolph Harrison (1900-1978) was an Alabama native who graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and later served in the administration of three different medical schools, the Bowman-Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forrest University (North Carolina), the Southwestern Medical School (Texas), and the Medical College of Alabama. He was also the chief editor of the Principles of Internal Medicine (1950), which became known as Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and which remains in print until the current time. For additional information on Dr. Harrison's life and career, see the overview for his manuscript collection (MC03). |
| Scope and Contents | This is a collection of photographs combined together to document the life and career of Harrison, some of the images were donated by the Harrison family, some by UAB faculty and staff, and some were created by various offices on the university campus. A vast majority of the images in this collection were donated by Dr. James A. Pittman, Jr., one-time dean of the UAB medical school and a long-time friend of Dr. Harrison and his family. The collection was organized in 1993 upon the request of the University Archivist. |
| Arrangement | Organized by prints, lantern slides, and audiovisual material |
| Accession Number | Various |
| Provenance | Various |
| Copyright | The UAB Archives owns the copyright to some of the material and maintains its proprietary rights to all material in this collection. |
| Fnding Aid | Printed descriptive guide by William A. Harris and Tim L. Pennycuff available in repository. |
| Access Points | Harrison, Tinsley Randolph, d 1900-1978. Harrison family. University of Alabama. b Medical College of Alabama. University of Alabama. b School of Medicine. University of Alabama in Birmingham. |
| Document Types | Lantern slides. Negatives. Photographs. Video cassettes. |
| Location | Manuscript Stacks |
| Related Series | MC03, Tinsley R. Harrison Papers MC07, Tinsley R. Harrison Collection |
| Physical Condition | Acid free folder, acid free box |
This page created 2014
Copyright: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees.