University of Alabama

Overview Collection contains the Beta Tapes during the student unrest May 1970 at the University of Alabama.

Overview Contains correspondence and records, index to student files (1930-1944), and indices to miscellaneous publications. Publication topics include agriculture, home economics, P.T.A., publishing companies, sororities, University of Alabama publications, publications of other Alabama colleges and normal schools, and out-of-state college publications.

Abstract University of Alabama campus buildings; dorm rooms; football games; cotton gin; football game in California; Mardi Gras in New Orleans 1932; Gulfport, Mississippi; University of Alabama football team; Northport tornado, March 22, 1932; ROTC; track and field; University of Alabama coed; John "hurry" Cain, halfback on University of Alabama football team; article about the Lynn high school; articles about the Northport tornado, March 22, 1932; other news article; cards of YMCA; Cotillion Club...

Overview Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.

Overview Memorabilia of a University of Alabama student, 1930-1934, including a scrapbook, record book, newspapers, and student organization documents

Abstract Diaries whose short entries provide information on the daily activities of this coed from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, member of Kappa Delta sorority, and 1916 University of Alabama graduate.

Abstract Photographs of the first African American student admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, enrolling at The University of Alabama in February 1956.

Abstract This collection consist of two hundred and sixty nine photographs depicting buildings around The University of Alabama campus; Tombigbee and other river's in Alabama; trains; Eugene Allen Smith house on campus and his family; Alabama State Capitol; steamboats; University of Alabama baseball team; scene's from University of Mississippi; and scene's from Wetumka Penitentiary.

Overview Letters and other materials regarding this University of Alabama librarian; most of the collection relates to her illness and death.

Overview Items relating to Walter Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers as students at the University of Alabama, including commencement programs, SGA and WSGA ribbons, Triangle ribbon, library card, and invitation to a dance

Overview Paper entitled "Then Came the Women: The University in the Nineties," written by Bessie Leach Hayden, Dean of Women, about the first sixty years of coeducation at the University of Alabama.

Overview Diary (and transcription) kept by Edna Lee Holladay during her college days at the University of Alabama

Abstract Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.

Overview This collection consists of eighty-five photographs of Jerry A. Davis, Jr. (UA, MA, 1991), his friends and family, school pictures of Tuscaloosa Academy students, University of Alabama Sigma Chi fraternity parties, and vacation scenes.

Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.

Abstract Collection consists of one photo album with one hundred and forty-three photographs of Saul Gordon, a University of Alabama student in the early 1930s. Album contains scenes of campus life, including coeds, buildings, football, the band, ROTC and dorm life. Several photographs are depicting devastation caused by the March 22, 1932 Northport tornado. These photographs are accompanied by clippings relating details of the disaster. Album also includes photographs with scenes from the 1932 New...

Abstract Color and black and white photographs, negatives, and transparencies depicting different events taken place at the University Libraries such as: retirements parties (1992 for Gunetta Rich; 1994 June 20 for Ann Elmore, Mary Henderson, Joyce Lamont, and Joyce Mizer) held at the University Club; 1991 service award; 1994 Tutwiler award; moving a coca cola machine; construction of Hoole Special Collections and moving in to it; 1990 Wade Hall; Amelia II photographs in box# 6142 appeared in issues of...

Overview This collection consists of ten color and thirty-eight black and white photographs of the residents of the International House at the University of Alabama, Shyhming Chang August 2, 1962, Christmas 1963, and different stage performances.

Abstract A letter dated 5 November 1952, from Astor to Dr. John M. Gallalee, president of the University of Alabama, declining a speaking invitation.