Opelika Public Library Vertical File Collection
Collection
Identifier: OPL001
Abstract
Originally created and formed in the Lewis Cooper Jr. Library, The Opelika Public Library Vertical File Collection was built by librarians and archivists who took materials and clippings from newspapers and magazines to entire publications, journals, and maps to create files about Opelika and persons and subjects of interest.
Dates
- Creation: 1920 - 2014
Full Extent
12 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Alabama
- Alexander City
- Auburn
- Bartram Trail
- Bean Mill
- Camp Opelika
- Camphill
- Chambers County
- Cusseta
- Dadeville
- Eufaula
- Fairfax
- Fort Toulouse
- Frederick House
- Gee's Bend
- Geneva Street Historic District
- Goldhill
- Halawaka Bridge, Halawaka Creek
- Horseshoe Bend
- Industrial Park
- Lafayette
- Lanett
- Lee County
- Lee County Courthouse
- Loachapoka
- Lowndes County
- Macon County
- Monroeville
- Moundville
- Oak Bowery
- Opelika
- Phenix City
- Roanoke
- Russell County
- Salem
- Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge
- Selma
- Smiths
- Spring Villa
- Tallapoosa County
- Tallassee
- Tiger Town
- Tuskegee
- Tuskegee, Alabama
- Valley
- Waverly
Topical
- Actors, Actresses
- Advertisements, Opelika
- African American Novelists
- Alabama Attorney General, 2002
- Alabama Authors
- Alabama Elections 1994
- Alabama Historical Quarterly
- Alabama Music Group
- Alabama Sturgeon
- Alabama, Libraries
- Answers to Opelika trivia
- Architecture
- Archives, Alabama
- Arts
- Astronauts, Alabama
- Authors, General Articles
- Bicentennial, Opelika
- Birds, Alabama
- Births, Statistics
- Black History
- Blind & Physically Handicapped Applications
- Blue Law, Opelika
- Bridges
- Buildings -- Remodeling for other use
- Business enterprises -- Alabama -- Opelika
- Businesspeople -- Alabama -- Opelika
- Camper Murder, Michael Froney
- Caves
- Cemeteries
- Christmas, Songs & Meaning
- Churches
- City Administration
- City of Opelika News (Businesses, etc.)
- Civil Defense (Need to change)
- Civil Rights, Alabama
- Civil War
- Civil War, Opelika
- Commercial buildings -- Alabama -- Opelika
- Community life -- Alabama -- Opelika
- Conduct of life
- Constitution, Alabama, 1983
- Courts
- Decades in Alabama, 70s
- Driving Handbook, Al. Department of Public Safety
- Education
- Election Procedures
- Elections and Campaigns
- Elections, City, 1988-1996
- Emblems
- Enrision, Opelika
- Environment
- Ethics Bill
- Flag, State
- Floods
- Football, Auburn
- Football, Opelika High
- Garden Clubs, Opelika
- Governors, General Archives
- Great Places to Retire
- Heartbreak Hotel, Movie
- History of Opelika
- History, Alabama
- Homes, Opelika
- Hometown Pride
- Hospitals
- Hurricanes, Frederic 1979, Dennis 2005
- Industry, Alabama
- Industry, Opelika
- Iraq, War on Terrorism
- Jail, Opelika
- Judges, Alabama
- KKK, Klu Klux Klan
- Katrina
- Kudzu Plant
- Maps
- Mental Health
- Miss Alabama
- Norma Rae, Movie
- Opelika Buisinesses
- Opelika City Council Business
- Opelika Downtown
- Opelika, Pow Camp
- Opelika-Auburn News, History
- Orradio
- P.O.W., Alabama
- Parks and Recreation
- Pepperell Village WW1
- Poetry
- Politics, ALA, History
- Prisoner of War Camp
- Quarry
- Radio Stations
- Railroads
- Railroads, Train, Opelika
- Reconstruction
- Rivers
- Sesquicentennial
- Television
- Textile Mills
- Tuskegee Airmen
- WWII
- WWII, Opelika
- World War II
- Title
- Opelika Public Library Filing Cabinet Collection
- Author
- Matthew Surrett
- Date
- 2026
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Opelika Public Library Archives Repository
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