Thomas M. Owen, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, at the Alabama capitol in Montgomery, ca. 1910. In 1903 the Alabama legislature passed a bill allocating funds for an expansion of the capitol building, and designated a new wing for ADAH.
Thomas M. Owen
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Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History
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