White-Douglas Home for Aged Women on 22nd Street South in Birmingham, Alabama.

This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on April 11, 1941, with the following caption: "They Get New Home - The little old ladies who have been living at the Octavia White Home, an institution for aged women at 504 South Fifty-Sixth Street, Friday were settled in a new home and fin...

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Main Author: Cook
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/162745
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Summary:This photograph was published in the Birmingham News on April 11, 1941, with the following caption: "They Get New Home - The little old ladies who have been living at the Octavia White Home, an institution for aged women at 504 South Fifty-Sixth Street, Friday were settled in a new home and finding it very pleasant. All day there was a lot of quiet excitement and contented murmuring about their new abode, the Charles J. Perry home at 1251 South Twenty-Second Street. The Perry home has been renovated and remodeled, and will accommodate the 18 women, and the name of the institution has been changed to the White-Douglas Home for Aged Women. Two of the women shown arriving at the new home are Mrs. Annie Porter (left) and Mrs. Miriam Jones."