^v--^^ •^^^^ •^i^o^ -^^^v .•.^'%.. ■• '^jv^-'- '"''.O -e.-o^ ^^^<>'-' f>^ .•il'* /**> * O ^ • r.* y V'.->^»a' "<,'*:f.r.\6*^ '^.'-'^^^^^^'^v" 0^ .0* .il''. V 0^ .•;•'♦ *> • -x'?-' • .6^ ,0^ V*^^^*^' V*^'%^' V^^'*y' V*^-**/ V ^0 7 ' • cy O » — . V •1""' ^ •l'°' .^^^, <^ '• . I ^, A*> '.Lie:-'* '^^ '^ •I o ■. V.^' »':^s- %/ ;:^i^-- Vo^' o:^--. \/ V.<^' ♦' .0 J'"'^^ » -e. ■^/•tft . ^^^v ^vsa^.'. '-^^.^ o'^^^ia'- '»'ov^ :;si^*- ^-^^^ 'bV «'. '^^^o^ /. ^° ■'«*•. VIKWS OF BIRMIXGHAM ALABAMA WITH A GLIMPSE AT SOME OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT AND THE INDUSTRIES BASED THEREON • PUBLISHED BY ISIDORE NEWMAN & SON BANKERS NEW YORK NEW ORLEANS Copyright, 1908, by ISIDORE NEWMAN & SON. »-:,A»OK->.:^—v: PHOTOCRAPH OF DRAWING OF BIRMIXCHA.M'S NEW UNION PASSENGER STATION NOW NEARING COMPLETION BIRMINGHAM THIS book is designed to give a graphic view of prominent features of the City of Birmingham as it appears to-day. The city has been named the Magic City, and to one who sees what has been accomplished thei-e within a very short period and is not informed about its resources, the growth seems ahiiost magical. In the cover design the artist shows, however, the tangible, underlying cause of the wonderful growth of the City of Birmingham, which may be seen in the three natural elements so fortunately placed together within a limited area, as if Nature herself had designed to found a City on Steel. Nowhere else in the world are the three elements, coal, iron ore, and limestone, which are the ingredients necessary to make iron, found in such close proximity. The products of these elements are shown as the basis of the Steel Mills and arising from the mills one sees the present finished product — the City of Birmingham. The Birmingham District has a population of 150,000, comprises about 100 square miles, and includes, besides Birmingham City proper, twenty-five other cities and villages and twelve well-popu- lated sections not incorpoi'ated. Birmingham (city proper) covers six and thi'ee-fourths sfiuare miles. Birmingham is a citj' of home-owners. There are a number of residential sections which, for originality and beauty of architecture, vie with the best in the land. As an evidence of Birming- ham's growth, it can be cited that more than 1(5,000 homes have been built within the city limits and vicinity since the census of 1!)00. Birmingham has the best sanitary sewerage in the South, built at a cost of $500,000. One sewer is fourteen and three-fourths miles, another twelve miles long. It has twelve parks, with an area of 200 acres, and fifly-six miles of macadamized streets; an inexhaustible water supply, adequate for a city of 1,000,000 population, the water being unsurpassed as to purity by that of any other city. It has ninety churches and a most excellent public school system with a new $200,000 high school, at which manual training is given. It has Howard College and Birmingham College, Birmingham Seminary, Pollock- Stephens Institute, Birmingham Medical College and Birmingham Dental College, and two hospitals. Birmingham has a splendid climate, an open season thi'oughout the year. The past twelve months the temperature has averaged 46.5° for winter, 65° for spring, 80.5° for summer, and 66° for fall. Birmingham is destined to be the greatest of the Southern cities. Her geographical location in the cotton belt, in a rich agricultural section, an important center for the distribution of timber, and in the center of the most wonderful mineral region in the world, with everj' blessing of soil and climate that man could desire, foi'etell her advent as the metropolis of the South. J^ ^M., _ m n^jiX ' ^\K ' \^m CUKXER OK THIRD AVEXIE AND 19TH STREET TIIIHU AVENUE AT NKIH'I o E ifl @ H ?»r 19TH STREET NORTH FROM FIRST AVENUE f I^Hk^h^^J ^t'm i^mm- '7 ' ^^ SOUTH 20TH STREET HILL, LOOKINC. NORTH H H 75 a > H O ►J K H Q < UJ > a a H 03 o O O >i H Z O o o 3 W H CO W H o < p > < X z o 2 < ^^^ .m. MORRIS HOTEL, FIRST AVENUE AND 19TH STREET >ST. VlNOKiNTVS IIOSriTAL. JVlll ^IKIJ:!' AM) AVKM E 1 MASONIC TEMPLE, SIXTH AVENUE AND 19TH STREET HILLMAX llUSriTAL, :2UTH STREET AND AVENUE F liAPTI FIRST MKTHODIST EPISCOl'AI. CHURCH, SOUTH ST CHURCH ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ON THIO HIGHLANDS POWELL .SCHCJOL, SLXTH AVENUK ANU U4TH STREET BIRMINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL, SEVENTH AVENUE AND :i4TH STREET ORPHANS' HOME, EAST LAKE, ALA. ^- SOUTHERN AM) ATilLKTR' Cl.llj,'^, FJl'Tll A\ EM K AMi 31111 STltEET CUUNTKY t'Ll H, LAKEVIEW, BIK.MI.Nt.HAM, Ai.A. hm liiiiiiiM I ■ I li i III V~^&*^a»' " -a»^'- r. 8. WEATIIKU BlREAr STATION, ALTA AVENUE AND LAWN STREET ::^^'^..^^.- BIRMINGH.AJi WATEli W UUKS — SHADES MOUNTAIN FILTRATION PLANT RESIDENCE OF WALTER PERCY, HIGHLAND AVENUE AND BEECH .STREET RESIDENCE OF F. Y. ANDERSON, SYCAMORE ST., SOUTH HIGHLANDS RESIDENCE UF R. \V, MASSEY, BEECH STREET AND TI.MMONS AVENUE RESIDENCE OI U. J. Kl.SHTON, IROQUOIS STREET AND HIGHLAND AVENI'I RESIDENCE OF W. P (1. HARDING, GLEN IRIS PARK RESIDENCE OF HOHT. .lEMIsoN, ciLEN IKIS I'AKK THE HEAET BIRMINGHAM 'H()T()(iHAI'H OF DKAWINC ol' TERRACE COURT APARTMENTS >»tffA^-\ii»a.'.-&«^-.rW-'-i..~ iii«ii(4i^; ,*«.';iat^- S. lUOSIDF.XCE OF .lA.MICS WKISKL. lAIli\IK.\\ -aa^a.i.^^...- ^ilfcr HP' f 5- ■ ^1 1:H-.:iW^ '^ fei^i%i*V I ifl BIKMINXiHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO., GENERAL OFFICE, CORNER FIRyi A\LMJ; A.\l> JISI SlliKKT BIRMIXCHAM llAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO., SALESROOM (!AS AND ELECTRIC APPLLVNCES POWER HOUSE, BIU.\IIi\(!FlAM RAILWAY, LICHT A POWER CO., POWELL AVENUE, 18TH TO 19TH STREETS BIH.MIMIIIA.M KAII.UAV, LIGHP cV PoW Kl! CO., TWO \K\\ .sTKA.M TURBI.XH r;i:Xi:KAT()K.S, EACH UF :i,OI)l) K. W. CAPACITY GA.s PLANT, BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO., THIRD AVENUE AND 13TH STREET FREIGHT AND EXPRESS TRAIN. BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO. BIRMINGHAM KAIL\\.\-i. I.l'.lil .v I'liWKK ((»., KKKK.HI liol.sK AM) SUB-STATluX AT EXSLEY, ALA. BIRMINGHAM UAILWAV, Ll(;HT .V FuW EH Co., .SE.Ml-CUiN VKHTIBLK, 4-Ml)TuK ( \l{ NORTH BESSEMER LINE, BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO., NEAR FAIRVIEW EAST l.AKt: ENTRANCE TO A RED ORE MINE. SLOPE Nn. 10, RED MOUNTAIN. (U. 8. STEEL CORPORATION) SLOPE IN WAHNEK CUAL .\11.\E6, UKl'LBLIC, JEFFERSOX COI-NTV. ALA. Bl;,()\\.\ UliE. vALAliAMA CON«ULlUAiLl) (OAL A.\l> i K( i.\ (_'o.) KLECTHIC I'KAM IN TUNiN'EL, WAUiNKU CUAl. MINES Showing pockets on sides from which coal is dumped into cars. These are the outlets of chutes leading from the mine proper. IRON ORE OUTCROP, 22 FEET, ON RED MOUNTAIN, OVERLOOKING BIRMINGHAM LIMK.STONE yUAKKV WHITE MARBLE QUAKUY. ( IAM,ADECiA COUNTY) ':^K 7f«W!^ ti COKE UVE1N6 ENSLEY IRUN FUKNACE.S, TENNESSEE CUAL, IRO.\ cv I;aI]J;(.iAD (_ i -. i I . S. .STEEL CUHl'OKAl li ».\ ,) STEEL MILL AND FURNACES, TENNESSEE COAL, IRON & RAILROAD CO. (U. S. STEEL CORPORATION), ENSLEY, ALA. STEEL PLANT, TE.N-NES.sEE CuAL, iH(_».\ .^- KAILKOAU C\>. (U. ti. 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