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subject : Swimming pools--Alabama--Birmingham
photograph
Here is a photo of my grandmother, Inez Roquemore Bliss and aunt, Barbara Bliss McCarley at Cascade Plunge in 1927. The pool opened up around 1925.
Birmingham Memory Project (source)
Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) (publisher)
Unknown (creator)
Bliss, Benny (contributor)
1927
photograph
Black and white photograph of children in Avondale Park's wading pool. The park is located at Avenue E (Fifth Avenue, South) between 40th and 42nd Streets.
Birmingham De Luxe book (source)
Davis Advertising & Sales Company (publisher)
1910
photograph
Black and white photograph of a large crowd of bathers at East Lake in the early 1900s. The old bath house is in the background.
Oscar V. Hunt Collection 1075, Archives Department (source)
Birmingham, Ala. (publisher)
Hunt, Oscar V., 1881-1962 (creator)
photograph
b&w photograph of Cascade Plunge's pool located at 68th Street and 4th Avenue South. Looking across the pool to the Cloud Room dance hall. 2nd Avenue, South, at the southeast corner of 68th Street, So
Archives Department Collection 1556 (Photographs, General) (source)
Birmingham News (publisher)
1940
photograph
b&w photograph of the front entrance to Cascade Plunge located at 68th Street and 4th Avenue South. 2nd Avenue, South, at the southeast corner of 68th Street, South
Archives Department Collection 1556 (Photographs, General) (source)
Birmingham News (publisher)
1940
photograph
b&w photograph of male and female bathers sitting on sand under a tent located next to the pool. Alabama State Fairgrounds Swimming Pool.
Archives Department Collection 1556 (Photographs, General) (source)
Birmingham News (publisher)
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