Welcome to the Birmingham History Center
inside the exhibit hall, under a vaulted ceiling and surrounded by historical images and artifacts. Groups can also add food and wine to their meeting menu: Young & Vann's broad and skylighted entryway make a natural gathering space for catered receptions, to a maxiumum of 200 people. Call 205-202-4146 for details and fees.Two historic opportunities for veterans
Birmingham History Center partners with Veterans History Project, Blue Star Museums program.
In support
of the national Veterans History Project, the Birmingham History Center is collecting written personal accounts from local veterans who were involved in any U.S. conflict from World War I through the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. Veteran war narratives provide valuable and powerful personal context to the country's recorded history of war. To make a submission through the history center, print out a questionnaire and bring it in or mail to History Project, 1731 First Avenue North, Ste. 120, Birmingham, AL 35203. The information will be passed on unedited to the VHP.
The Veterans History Project, established in 2000 and funded by Congress, is administered through the Library of Congress, which makes availabl.jpg)
e to researchers and the general public the collected first-person war accounts, audio, correspondence, photographs and other media submitted by veterans. The project also collects stories and artifacts from USO workers, flight instructors, medical volunteers, and others who took part in the war industry. To learn more about the project or make submissions directly, visit the website at www.loc.gov/vets/.
In another salute to U.S. military, the history center is a Blue Star Museum, offering free admission to active duty military, National Guard and Reserve personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The Blue Star program is a partnership of the nonprofit Blue Star Families and the National Endowment for the Arts.
of the national Veterans History Project, the Birmingham History Center is collecting written personal accounts from local veterans who were involved in any U.S. conflict from World War I through the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. Veteran war narratives provide valuable and powerful personal context to the country's recorded history of war. To make a submission through the history center, print out a questionnaire and bring it in or mail to History Project, 1731 First Avenue North, Ste. 120, Birmingham, AL 35203. The information will be passed on unedited to the VHP. The Veterans History Project, established in 2000 and funded by Congress, is administered through the Library of Congress, which makes availabl
e to researchers and the general public the collected first-person war accounts, audio, correspondence, photographs and other media submitted by veterans. The project also collects stories and artifacts from USO workers, flight instructors, medical volunteers, and others who took part in the war industry. To learn more about the project or make submissions directly, visit the website at www.loc.gov/vets/.In another salute to U.S. military, the history center is a Blue Star Museum, offering free admission to active duty military, National Guard and Reserve personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The Blue Star program is a partnership of the nonprofit Blue Star Families and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Enduring Business exhibit now open
It's so 75 years ago
Frances Cypress shows a cash register from the 1920s still in use at Dixie Store Fixture.
See the list of enduring businesses here.
Each month, the exhibit will also feature the products, photographs and history of a different company from the list -- first up will be coffee and tea distributor Red Diamond, Inc., founded in 1906 as as the Donovan Provision Co., a dairy and meat supplier.
From the Alabama Theatre to St. Vincent's hospital, these institutions helped shape the face and feel of the Birmingham metropolitan area.
The latest from 1731 Blog Avenue
No glamour in the real lives of early 20th century "Newsboys"
1908 photo of newsboys on the Brooklyn Bridge. Hundreds worked in Birmingham.
Looking beneath the romantic mythology, the author reported that newsboys in Birmingham earned an average of 93 cents a day in the street trade, usually laboring beyond the lax regulations that limited their working hours to between 5 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Read the full entry on our blog.
The American Child was a publication of the National Child Labor Committee, formed in 1904 with the help of Montgomery, Ala. activist Edgar Gardner Murphy. Murphy, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, died in 1913.
What's this?
A U.S. Navy model of one of Birmingham's three namesake military vessels, the U.S.S. Birmingham light cruiser (CL-62).
U.S.S. Birmingham scale model, on loan
Nearly 300 U.S.S. Birmingham crew members were killed during an explosion of the bombed sister ship, the U.S.S. Princeton. The Birmingham and U.S.S. Irwin were both dousing fires alongside the Princeton when its bomb arsenal exploded. Hunreds of Princeton survivors were evacuated by the U.S.S. Irwin before a final, massive explosion sank the crippled aircraft carrier.
Also on exhibit is military footage of the battle, rescue and fatal explosion during the fierce naval campaign to regain the Phillipines from Japanese occupation.
Who we are, What we do
The Birmingham History Center, so renamed in 2010, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with just over 3,000 square feet of exhibit space in Young & Vann's renovated gallery, 1731 First Avenue North in Birmingham. Exhibits are open to the public Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at a low admission price ($4-adults/$3-seniors/$2-students).
The organization today is governed by a 23-member board of directors and headed by Executive Director Jerry Desmond, an author, historian, and former educator who came to Birmingham in 2009 from Georgia, where he directed the Rome Area History Museum.
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