Bertha Marx Adler was the daughter of Birmingham merchant Samuel Marx, one of the founders of Temple Emanu-El. In 1892 she married Samuel M. Adler, a Birmingham businessman and investor. This scrapbook is an atlas that Bertha Marx, then a young woman, converted to a scrapbook by pasting items over the pages. The scrapbook primarily contains programs from Birmingham theater productions, but also contains a few programs from Birmingham High School and an order of service from the 1889 dedication of Temple Emanu-El.

Jeanne Adler was the daughter of Samuel and Bertha Marx Adler and resided on Highland Avenue in Birmingham. This scrapbook, entitled “The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book,” contains clippings, photographs, notes from classmates and other memorabilia relating to Adler’s senior year at Birmingham High School.

Alley School was an elementary school located on Birmingham’s Southside. These two scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, lists of officers and memorabilia relating to the activities of the PTA.

Born in Sicily, Carmella Anselmo Antonio immigrated to Birmingham in 1921 where she taught in the public schools and taught English language and citizenship classes to other immigrants. She worked at the Bechtel-McCone aircraft facility in Birmingham during World War II. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings and other material relating to her life and her students.

This collection contains the personal papers, primarily correspondence, of the Bass family of Birmingham. Most of the papers are letters to and from Mrs. Fred Bass, Sr., her son Fred Bass Jr., and her daughter Helen Bass, for whom the collection is named. The bulk of correspondence dates from the late 1930s and early 1940s the years in which Fred Bass, Jr. attended the Marion Military Institute. The letters to and from Fred Bass, Jr. capture the cares and worries of a boy in the 1930s hoping for a career in the military. There are a few mentions of the oncoming war in the correspondence including a few jokes about Hitler. The collection also contains letters to Helen from her nephew, Fred. These letters revolve around Fred being drafted into the army and sent to Vietnam. While in Vietnam, he served as a detention officer in a POW camp, and in his letters, he gives descriptions of his surroundings.

Birmingham School of the Bible, an interdenominational fundamentalist institution, was in 1934. Originally the school offered classes two nights per week. In 1943 the name was changed to Southeastern Bible School and the institution offered a three-year college level program. After the school developed into a four-year institution the name was changed to Southeastern Bible College in 1952. This collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, and other material documenting the school's founding and early years of operation.

Incorporation papers, constitution and by-laws, minutes of meetings for 1950 to 1980, financial reports for 1955 to 1977, documents relating to the appraisal and sale of the club-sponsored retirement home, and photographs.

Correspondence of the Scholastic Art Awards Program and the Arts Placement Committee, along with publicity materials and an assortment of pamphlets and magazines.

This collection contains directories published by the Birmingham, Alabama Board of Education for the years 1920 to 1924 and 1950 to 1981. The directories list teachers by name, giving addresses and schools where each teacher is employed; names of officers and department heads in the school system; principals and department heads at each school; and school calendars. For the years 1920 through 1965 white and Negro schools are listed separately.

Minutes record the actions of the Board.

Photographs showing students and teachers in classrooms, libraries, playgrounds, shops, lunchrooms and other areas of Birmingham city schools while classes are in session. The collection includes images from white and African American schools.

This scrapbook, apparently kept by superintendent John Herbert Phillips, contains newspaper clippings and typed documents relating to the work of the Birmingham Board of Education.