| Summary: | Color print interior view of the Bankhead Tunnel under Mobile River in Mobile, AL. Traffic lanes with double white lines in center. White walls of tunnel with blue striping. Lights on side and top of tunnel. Printed on front: 'Interior Of Bankhead Tunnel Under Mobile River, Mobile, Ala., Photo By Mobile Press Register, 1B-H398.' Printed on back: 'Bankhead Tunnel, named after a distinguished Alabama statesman, is the first engineering feat of its kind in the deep South. A four million dollar, self-liquidating traffic artery under Mobile River, which reduces by seven and one half miles the distance between the city and points north and east on the Old Spanish Trail. Total length 3389 feet, under river portion 1147 feet, width of roadway 21 feet, headroom 13 feet 6 inches. Opened to traffic Feb. 20, 1941. Carter's News Agency, Mobile, Ala., Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C. T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)'
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