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Box 4

 Container

Contains 32 Results:

Phenix City Story Negatives

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Contains negatives of the Clean Up and political appearances; has negative of Patterson pointing with cane to campaign posters

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Gambling Historical, Phenix City, 1940s-1950s

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

8 images of gambling machines, money, and a group of men outside of a courthouse.

Dates: Other: 1940s-1950s

Benton, William “Bill” (Phenix City District Attorney)

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection consists of over 1,000 original photographs and negatives produced by the The Ledger-Enquirer newspaper in Columbus. Many of the photographs contain the crop and proportion marks from the editor and the original identification on the back. They are grouped together mostly by subject with Phenix City Cleanup and the Stocking Strangler cases having their own boxes.

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Bentley’s Sport Shop

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

3 images and 12 negatives of Hugh Bentley and his shop. Bentley was a victim of a house bomb on January 9, 1952. Negatives are of his shop, its advertisements and him working on bicycles and other sports gear in his shop.

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Beachie’s Swing Club Arrests

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection consists of over 1,000 original photographs and negatives produced by the The Ledger-Enquirer newspaper in Columbus. Many of the photographs contain the crop and proportion marks from the editor and the original identification on the back. They are grouped together mostly by subject with Phenix City Cleanup and the Stocking Strangler cases having their own boxes.

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Patterson, Albert L.

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Content Description From the Collection:

This collection consists of over 1,000 original photographs and negatives produced by the The Ledger-Enquirer newspaper in Columbus. Many of the photographs contain the crop and proportion marks from the editor and the original identification on the back. They are grouped together mostly by subject with Phenix City Cleanup and the Stocking Strangler cases having their own boxes.

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Miscellaneous Unfiled

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Folder contains 28 photographs of various Phenix City clean up; a funeral, B-Girls, trials, gambling machines, military/police, elections and the release of The Phenix City Story

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Griffin, Johnny F.

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

4 photos of Johnny Griffin walking up court steps and his victim in the E.R. at hospital

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Pearson, Gordon (Gov.)

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

27 photographs of Alabama Gov. Persons visiting Phenix City and conducting official business

Dates: 1940s-1980s; Majority of material found within 1949-1960

Phenix City - "All American City" , 1956

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

45 Photographs of the parade and ceremony celebrating Phenix City being named “All American City” in 1956

Dates: Other: 1956