I'll be sending you the Pickens County Herald clippings about your Daddy in my next email because those images are on Kevin Pake's computer and he's busy on it right now. This email will give you some information about the 1887 panoramic map of Tuscaloosa. I plan on composing a guide to portions of the map which deal with Peco's downtown properties on Greensboro (Market Street) , University (Broad Street and Huntsville Road) and Lurleen North (Washington Street). Very few changes had occurred on Tuscaloosa's landscape between 1865 and 1887 so this 132 year old map gives us a window into a lost civilization which occupied this matrix (Tuscaloosa Street Survey 1821) from 1821 until the Federal invasion and occupation of 1865. Here's a link to one of my blogs where I taken a photograph of the large map we now have in the Pake Realty office and have begun to examine the neighborhood around the Peco building near the intersection of Queen City and University. https://reclaimalabama.blogspot.com/2019/11/i-have-identified-5-demolished.html

This link is to a guide to the 1887 buildings around the present-day Bama Theater @ the intersection of 6th Street (Cotton Street) and Greensboro Avenue (Market Street). This black and white image came from an online version of the 1887 map. https://reclaimalabama.blogspot.com/2019/10/autobiography-of-james-robert-maxwell.html

This link is to other guides I have worked on concerning downtown areas of the 1887 map. https://reclaimalabama.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-two-large-buildings-in-middle-of.html

The Library of Congress has a wonderful collection of these maps that are begging for interpretation.  They have 1491 panoramic maps from the U.S.A. and many from Canada. New York state has 204 of these maps which were produced from about 1875 up until WWI. I am confident that they are just as accurate as Tuscaloosa's. They have 10 Alabama panoramic maps ( Anniston[1887, 1888], B'ham[1885, 1904], Gadsden[1887] , Huntsville[1871], Montgomery[1887], Selma[1887], Tuscaloosa[1887]. They also have 13 Florida panoramic maps, 15 from Georgia, 12 from Tennessee and 4 from Louisiana online.  https://www.loc.gov/collections/panoramic-maps/index/location/?sp=1

Please let me know if you are interested in any of this stuff or if you'd like to have an enlarged and mounted 1887 Tuskaloosa Perspective Map.

Best,
r