Alabama Newscenter — Birmingham’s History Captured in Postcards From a Century Ago

By Carla Davis

A horse race at the Alabama State Fair in October 1906, a view of the old Terminal Station in downtown Birmingham, picketers at a now-defunct mine in west Jefferson County, and street scenes featuring men in suits and top hats and ladies in old-fashioned long dresses carrying parasols. Those are among the many snapshots in time that would have been lost forever without postcards.

Steve Gilmer said postcards are more than inexpensive souvenirs that visitors to Birmingham can bring home as keepsakes from vacation.

“They are a historic record of the glorious years of the Magic City and its growth starting in the early 1900s,” said Gilmer. “They used to be in every drugstore, every filling station and every 10-cent store. Now it’s hard to find postcards of the city.”

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