Nathan Williams Descendants

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Eunice and Elvie

Broadway, Sylacauga, Alabama late 40s I believe. A "Natural Color Card" Made by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis.--1HL. On the back of the postcard it reads: This city was first incorporated as a town in 1838. At that time there were 316 people voting in Sylacauga. Located within 250 miles of the Gulf of Mexico and 300 from the Atlantic Coast, the city is well situated for traffic and transportation.

This is an ad for Avondale Mills, Sylacauga, Alabama that appeared in the April 26, 1947 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. This is one in a series of ads created by Douglass Crockwell that ran in the Post that year. The ad measures 10 3/8 X 13 1/2, great for framing, and is too large to completely fit on my scanner but the borders are nice and even and the words SATURDAY EVENING POST and the date appear in the top margin, ad is in great condition. The ad shows a boy lying under a tree playing a harmonica with his dog.

The text on the ad reads: Human happiness...can it be woven of fabric?

In answer to that question, a challenging picture will begin to unfold before your eyes on these pages in this year.

It is an appropriate year.

It is our fiftieth.

Today the people of Avondale could tell you of boys with a new claim on the future...of old men who are seeing a new day down in the South...of fathers and mothers who exercise a new right to the profits they help create...of over seven thousand people whose ambition it is to find together the best possible ways to produce, not merely good fabrics for Avondale--but a good way of life.

You will learn that our "partnership with people" -- which has grown out of our fifty years' experience--has just begun. But already it has resulted in high rates of income--and production--which are unsurpassed in the entire American cotton industry.

So this Avondale story touches your people too. Your wife, who seeks good fabrics for all your family. Your children, who wear them. You, who pay for them--from the looms of Alabama to the stores of all America.

You will, we sincerely trust, want to watch this striking story unfold under the inspired brush strokes of Artist Douglass Crockwell...the story of this boy of Avondale...of America...of the world of tomorrow...where men will exploit the possibilities in the earth, not the people on it!

Avondale Mills of Alabama
Founded in 1897 by Governor B. B. Comer

AVONDALE SPINS THE YARN AND WEAVES THE FABRICS THAT GO INTO THE HOME FOR EVERY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY

B. B. Comer High School

Tower at Cheaha State Park

Photo postcard of Eva Jane Cotton Mill, Sylacauga, Alabama. In the bottom left corner, it says Palace Drug Co. It is unused, in good condition with corner wear. 3 1/" x 5 1/".