Title	1990s: Earnest Dowdell
Description	This image is a photograph used in the book Auburn, a Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village by Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, 3rd edition, 2013, depicting the history of the city and the university. From page 334: They honored Earnest Dowdell with a fish fry when he retired in 1994, and no wonder. He had worked forty-seven years in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures. "When I started working, we used mules and flip scrapes to build ponds, and the professors worked only on bream and bass, the most common fish in Alabama" Dowdell told the AU Report. "Now there's all kinds of science involved, and the professors work with fish from all over the world: catfish, tilapia, carps, even crawfish." Photo source: Auburn University Archives.
Date	ca. 1990s
Place	Auburn – Lee County – Alabama
LC Subject Headings	Auburn (Ala.) Auburn University African Americans -- Alabama African Americans -- Education -- Alabama Fish culture -- Alabama Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Alabama
EOA Categories	Agriculture -- Fisheries and Aquaculture Agriculture -- Agriculture Education Agriculture -- Agricultural Research Education -- Higher Education History -- 1987-present: Recent Alabama
Original Medium	black and white photograph, 1342 x 1965 pixels
Type	Image
Format	JPEG
File Name	304B.tif
Citation	Logue, Mickey and Simms, Jack. Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village. 3rd edition. 2013.
Repository	Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Digital Publisher	Auburn University Libraries
Language	eng
Rights	This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at achives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732.
Submitted by	Coates, Midge