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Every photograph on this site is public domain or Creative Commons, and every photographer is credited here.

The images on this site come from the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Farm Security Administration by way of the Library of Congress (public domain), and from photographers who published their work under Creative Commons licenses on Wikimedia Commons. Attribution is a condition of those licenses.

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ImageNeighborhoodPhotographer License
Norwood Boulevard, Norwood Norwood Lahti213, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
McDowell Memorial Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Norwood Norwood Mthunter58, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Bethel Baptist Church, Collegeville — a National Historic Landmark of the civil rights movement Collegeville Jet Lowe, Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The 3200 block of 29th Avenue North, Collegeville Collegeville Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The 3200 block of 29th Avenue North, Collegeville Collegeville Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The Bethel Baptist parsonage and guardhouse, Collegeville Collegeville Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Bethel Baptist Church, 3200 28th Avenue North, Collegeville Collegeville Ron Cogswell, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0 Source
Shady Grove Baptist Church, Collegeville Collegeville Quentin Melson, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
North Birmingham and Collegeville looking south toward downtown North Birmingham Jet Lowe, Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Slossfield Community Center, listed on the National Register of Historic Places North Birmingham Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Slossfield Community Center North Birmingham Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Slossfield Community Center Evergreen Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
The Finley Roundhouse, built 1915 as part of the Southern Railway's Finley Yard Evergreen Finleyman9819, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Sardis Baptist Church, Birmingham Fountain Heights Quentin Melson, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Birmingham houses photographed for the Farm Security Administration, 1936 Fountain Heights Walker Evans, Farm Security Administration (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Downtown Birmingham seen from Oak Hill Cemetery Fountain Heights Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Source
A shotgun house on Third Street in Thomas, a Jefferson County mill village Thomas (Jefferson County) Diesing, David H., creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
A pyramid-roofed worker cottage on Third Street, Thomas Thomas (Jefferson County) Diesing, David H., creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Worker housing along Seventh Street, Thomas Thomas (Jefferson County) Deising, David, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
A double two-room house with side porches, Edgewater Edgewater (Jefferson County) Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
A worker house with a columned porch, Edgewater Edgewater (Jefferson County) Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
A bungalow cottage built as Tennessee Coal and Iron worker housing Jefferson County Lowe, Jet (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The Joseph Martin House, 4502 Sixth Avenue Birmingham Jet Lowe Related names: Benz, Sue, transmitter (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
A double two-room cottage on Cedar Street Jefferson County Lowe, Jet (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Front porch window detail, Benjamin Pinckney Worthington House Birmingham Unknown (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The Jordan House Birmingham Sharon Phelan Evans, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Source
The Thompson House Birmingham Sharon Phelan Evans, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Source
Thomas School, Second Avenue North Avondale Lowe, Jet (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The Mill School at Avondale Avondale Hine, Lewis Wickes; National Child Labor Committee Collection Public domain Source
St. Luke AME Church, 28th Street North Birmingham Unknown (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Harmony Street Baptist Church Birmingham Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Thirty-Second Street Baptist Church Birmingham Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Streetscape at South Elyton Baptist Church Birmingham Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
St John the Evangelist, North Birmingham North Birmingham Brianboru100, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Birmingham Unknown (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Bethel Baptist Church, Collegeville — eastern elevation Collegeville Lowe, Jet Related names: Shuttlesworth, Fred Lee; Alabama Christian Mo (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Avondale Park Avondale Lahti213, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
The pond at Avondale Park Avondale Lahti213, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Source
Railroad Park, downtown Birmingham Birmingham Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Source
Rickwood Field Birmingham Related names: Lavoie, Catherine, transmitter Klugh, transmitter (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The 2100 block of 2nd Avenue North Birmingham Chris Pruitt, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Source
20th Street looking south from Linn Park toward Red Mountain Birmingham Lowe, Jet, creator (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
Morris Avenue Birmingham Unknown (Library of Congress) Public domain Source
The Birmingham skyline Birmingham Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Source

Photographs are cropped and resized for the web. Several carry a share-alike condition; see each license for terms. Replacing these with the organization's own photography removes all of these obligations.