Taylor Ford

Montgomery Advertiser

In December 2016, Alabama Media Group donated more than 3 million photographic negatives to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Throughout the year, ADAH has been working to preserve and digitize the images, and make them available to the public.

The negatives were produced by photographers who worked at The Birmingham News, Mobile’s Press-Register and The Huntsville Times from the 1920s through the end of the twentieth century.

Meredith McDonough, digital assets coordinator for the archives department, said that over 900 images have been digitized so far. Though it will take years to complete the digitization, new material will be added each month.

ADAH, located in downtown Montgomery, is the state’s government records repository, special collections library and research facility. It is also home to the Museum of Alabama, the state history museum.

—Taylor Ford

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