Eudora Welty once said that a good snapshot stops a moment from running away. Scottsboro is lucky among small towns to have had many of its moments and citizens captured in photos. There are wonderful images of our town and its people on postcards, family photos, and photos of buildings and events.
We have even had a number of famous photographers pass through town and leave their records of our people and places in the national and state archives.
This part of the Scottsboro Depot Museum site includes not just railroad memories, but family memories and collective public memories as well. Specifically, this page includes:
We welcome your contributions to this page. Do you have pre-1920 images that you can share? Family photos? Old postcard images? Photos of events? Send them to Annette Bradford to have them included on this page.
Do you want a reprint of any image you see on this page? Click here for details.
You can order prints of any of the photos seen in the photo archive at a cost of $5 for a 4 x 6 or $10 for an 8 x 10. The museum's copies of some photos are of such low resolution that only a 4 x 6 of sufficient resolution and quality can be produced.
To order a photo, email MAILTO and include the following information:
Allow $2.00 for shipping and handling. You can also pick up your reprints at the museum desk.
You can also order photos by mail. Write to the following address and include all the above information.
JCHA
Post Office Box 1494
Scottsboro, AL 35769