Anniversary of the Founding of Mobile, Alabama
This image, taken at Ladd Stadium, shows one event in Mobile's celebration of its removal from Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to its present location in 1711. The mayor that year, Joseph Langan, had decreed that all Mobile men grow beards and mustaches so that they would look like the men who had foun...
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University of South Alabama Archives, McCall Library
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/usa01/id/176 |
| Summary: | This image, taken at Ladd Stadium, shows one event in Mobile's celebration of its removal from Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to its present location in 1711. The mayor that year, Joseph Langan, had decreed that all Mobile men grow beards and mustaches so that they would look like the men who had founded the city in 1702. |
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