Greetings from Alabama: A Pictorial History in Vintage Postcards from the Wade Hall Collection of Historical Picture Postcards from Alabama

Although he was a native of Bullock County, Alabama, Wade Hall—teacher, writer, poet, critic, interviewer, folklorist, and documentarian—spent most of his fifty-year career in Kentucky. But he was never emotionally far from his home as evidenced by his passion for collecting vintage Alabama postcards. In his lifetime he amassed 10,000, which he then graciously gave to the University of Alabama Libraries and Troy University in a large joint bequest that also included rare books, quilts, folk...