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Photographer: Tim Carr
Taken: January 4, 2010
Caption: Vulcan Park & Tower 1938.
Additional Description: VULCAN PARK & TOWER 1938.
Sponsored By: The Kiwanis Club & Park & Recreation Board of Birmingham built with the aid of the federal & local governments, under the direction of T.H. Joy, C.E., & R.S. Marshall, Sup't Park Board.
KIWANIS CLUB COMMITTEE. J. Mercer Barnett & T.H. Joy, Co-Ch'mn., T.L. Bissell, W.D. Moore, A.C. Montgomery, Erskine Ramsey, W.A. Currie & C.F. Wittigen.
PARK BOARD. Thomas Bowron, Karl Landgrebe, J.M. Jones, Jr., Tram Sessions, Mrs. Chas. J. Sharp & C.L. Baily.
CITY COMMISSION. J.M. Jones, Jr., Pres., Eugene Conner, J.W. Morgan.
Height of Pedestal 125 ft. Weight 2000 tons.
FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY.
Anchored by links of steel, on Red Mountain's iron vein. Our Vulcan views a city spread over hill and plain. Built, like this tower, by men whose work and skill and Birmingham's best nerve, that helped them to fulfill the prophecy he made in nineteen hundred four; our population grown since then to even ten times more who plead for art and science new victories to reveal and build a greater city with the onward march of steel. J.H. Adams.
Submitted: January 8, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p92144
File Size: 4.656 Megabytes

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