Historical Birmingham Photography Book Giveaway!!

Rachel Callahan

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UPDATED: I HAVE ANOTHER GIVEAWAY THAT FEATURES FIVE MORE OF THESE BOOKS BUT ABOUT DIFFERENT SUBJECTS!! $175 TOTAL VALUE!! CLICK HERE TO GO ENTER IT!
Turner Publishing sent me an awesome book to give away to you guys!!

It is called Historic Photos of Birmingham, and has 200 pages that poignantly tell the story of the city from the 1870’s to current day.

They sent me a copy as well so that I could check it out. When they offered it to me, I wasn’t sure if it would be interesting to me – I’m not huge on historical pictures normally. But let me tell you, the first night we got it, Chris and I both got completely sucked into it and read the entire thing!!

Now that might be impressive, but it IS a picture book. But we pored over it, reading every caption and studying every picture. It was fascinating!!!

The photos coupled with their well-written captions portray a storyline that is just completely captivating. It so made me want to go back and experience Birmingham in all of those time periods!! But just for a little bit. . . until it was time to do laundry or go to the bathroom or take a bath or. . . well you get the point.

If you’re not from Birmingham, this is a series – they also have similar books on quite a few other cities. Check to see if your city is on the list here.

Here are a couple of pictures of what is in the Birmingham book:

Downtown Birmingham in the 1870’s: dirt roads and tract houses.
The Jemison house in the 1880’s right in the middle of downtown. Apparently Mr. Jemison was “Mr. Birmingham” and owned quite a bit of it. Look at the tall buildings in the background that were already built that long ago!!
A traffic cop in the 1920’s:
The Spirit of St. Louis’ visit to Birmingham in the 20’s after it’s historical flight:
A group of CIVIL WAR veterans getting together to reminisce:
This picture really intrigued me. It was taken in 1961 at the Fairgrounds (somewhere I went many times as a child), and the kid in it looks JUST like my Dad did as a kid. Even Dad had to look at it for quite a while to confirm that it wasn’t him, finally deciding so that he looked a tad bit young to be him at the time:
The Alabama Cheerleaders back in the days of modesty:
All in all, it was a fascinating read. There were so many events photographed that mine and Chris’ parents and grandparents could very well have been in attendance. It’s a great read!!

So I have one copy of the Birmingham book to give away!! The retail price is $40 – this is a high quality, “coffee-table” book. It is really as good as I’ve said – I promise!!

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The contest will close on Monday, February 2nd. I will randomly draw a winner and announce it at 3pm on February 3rd. I will also email the winner if available.

Good luck!!

UPDATED: I HAVE ANOTHER GIVEAWAY THAT FEATURES FIVE MORE OF THESE BOOKS BUT ABOUT DIFFERENT SUBJECTS!! $175 TOTAL VALUE!! CLICK HERE TO GO ENTER IT!

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314 thoughts on “Historical Birmingham Photography Book Giveaway!!”

  2. I thought I would be the first to comment, of well. My Dad would have been at all those places and used to tell us about them. LYB, kitty

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  6. Birmingham – especially it’s police dept. – have been near and dear to my heart for a long time. And recently, God is giving me burden to intercede for this city. I mean, I’ve always prayed for the city, but not in the way He’s calling me to now. That book would be wonderful to help me understand the history of B’ham and how it contributes to what it is today!

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  7. I love these books, love looking at the past and how much time has changed..would love to see the Chicago one.

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  10. It sounds like a great book to have. Even though I’m in England, I do have a P.O. Box in Battle Creek, Michigan that you could mail it to if I were to win. (HeHe).

    Thanks Rachel.

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  12. Even though I am not from Birmingham, I would love the book. I have friends and relatives that are from Birmingham and the History major in me loves old photos.

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  13. The basement at the Birmingham Library downtown has thousands of these old photos. It is fun to go through and see places that you see today and realize there was a whole other “universe” that existed then!
    Dad

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  15. WOW what a wonderful book. I love to read about the history of certain cities. I would love to win. Thanks for the chance.

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  16. So interesting. We tend to look at Birmigham the way it is now. It’s interesting to read journals of my parents or grandparents and try to imagine the way it was when the came to Birmingham the first time. I’d love to have this book. Sandy

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  19. What a neat book. I’d love to add this to my historical photo books collection! Thank you for hosting this giveaway.

    curlycurvy -at- gmail -dot- com

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  27. These books are neat! My dad’s hometown has one too. In fact, he was thumbing through one half-heartedly during Christmas at the variety store. When he left the store Chase and I picked one up and bought it for a little extra Christmas present. Before we wrapped it up for him, we nosed through it and found a pic of my grandmother in it from her high school majorette days!

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  32. I loved looking at this book the other night! I would love to get one for my house. My grandma & dad would love to see it.

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  38. Birmingham has such an interesting history! I’m about 55 miles north up I65 but visit often. Put my name in the hat please! :)

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  52. Didn’t do very good in History in school. Now that I’m older trying to learn ,because I love about history, everything I missed in school. Please enter me, thank you

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  65. That book really does look neat! Being a history buff, I love seeing these kinds of books published.

    (my email’s on my blog profile page should you need it)

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  69. Please enter me, I loved visiting Birmingham as a teen. I really want to move there but my husband won’t move that far away.
    angelacisco at rocketmail.com

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  72. I’m having so much fun making friends and blog-hopping again this year.

    Thanks for such a generous giveaway! I hope I’m chosen as the lucky winner!!

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  77. I visited Birmingham years ago. I’m making a note to check this book out. Actually winning it would be a huge thrill.

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  78. I’d love to have this book. Old pictures and the captions that come with them sound so interesting, thanks!

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  86. I love reading about history and enjoy looking thru old black and white pictures!

    Would love to be entered in your drawing. Thank you!

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  96. This looks like a great coffee table book. I would love to win this. Great giveaway.

    ninahackebeil(at)gmail(dot)com

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  100. What a fantastic book. I love this kind of book the pictures are always so interesting.

    mistressfaerie(at)gmail(dot)com

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  102. I love it!! Being from Birmingham, I’d love to have that for my children… and grandchildren! Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  108. Looks like a wonderful book. I’ve seen similar ones about the history of Chicago when I lived there and they make for wonderful conversation with the wonderful b/w photography in them. :) Thanks for a chance to win a copy.

    killlashandra at hotmail dot com

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  109. wow i love to try and win this book please enter me infor this thanks a lot i also know have you on my feed list

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  118. We often go through B’ham on our way home to OK from Atl. We have even stayed there a time or two. Cool place, loaded with history. Would enjoy the book.

    Thanks for participating in the giveaway!

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  123. This looks like a wonderful book. We visited there not too long ago and it would be great to look back on the history of the area! Thanks for the chance to enter.
    princess3sah(at)cs(dot)com

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  128. Being an ALabama girl myself. I would love this book. And I know my hubby would enjoy it also. Please enter me. Thanks.

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  130. Beautiful book. My mother grew up in Birmingham , I’ve never had the chance to visit but would love to see what it looked like through her eyes.
    Thanks for the chance :)

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  132. Very cool. I actually love history and I especially love old photography. What a great book. Thanks for the opportunity.

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  135. I love books like this. We have one from our home towns and I’ve picked up a few from cities we’ve vacationed in too. Thanks for the chance to win!

    Jen
    meddlingkidd [at] aol.com

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  136. These are the type of books I absolutely love. Not only are they great reading, but I get facinated by the old pictures. I love to see the clothes they wore, surroundings, ect. This definately would be on my coffee table if I were to win.

    sallylynnsara@hotmail.com

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  152. looks like a real interesting read please include me in the giveaway. I enjoy looking back in time, history is wonderful
    thank you for the giveaway

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  167. My husband and I absolutely love books like this. Thanks for the giveaway!
    Angela
    itsahumanzoo(at)gmail(dot)com
    P.S. I’ve got a giveaway on my blog as well if you’d like to enter!

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  178. We lived in Birmingham when our daughter was born
    many years ago. This would be great for our family to enjoy.

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  180. Thank you for this giveaway. It looks like a really beautiful book.

    Your blog is really funny. I can’t agree more on the minivan topic! Will come back
    Amy
    valuedcustomer(at)live(dot)com

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  188. My grandfather would LOVE this book. He is into old time pictures. Great giveaway!

    alexandra dot hancock at gmail dot com

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  197. How does one go about subscribing to a blog, anyway? If I knew how, I would definitely subscribe to yours. And I’m assuming the comment I left on your post earlier counts as another entry. :)

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  200. What a cool resource book! I’ve never been to Birmingham, but that actually makes me more interested to read this :-D

    greenyak [at] yahoo [dot] com

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