A hayfield near Montevallo in Shelby County in the late nineteenth century. The photographer, R.W. Carleton, documented Montevallo from about 1880 to 1905.
Shelby County Haymaking
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Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History. Photograph by R. W. Carleton.
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