University of Alabama
Organization
Found in 139 Collections and/or Records:
Early University of Alabama Administrative Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-001
Overview
The record group contains many early extant records of The University of Alabama and includes materials documenting a wide range of functions, persons, and aspects of the University.
Dates:
1820 - 1920
William Graham Echols papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0471
Overview
Contains articles written about and by this Methodist minister and professor of religion at the University of Alabama
Dates:
after 1892
Educational Media Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-003
Overview
This collection consists of 435 photographs of different activities at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1963 - 1966
Eugene Allen Smith Glass Negatives
Collection
Identifier: 2007-005
Overview
This collection consists of glass plate negatives depicting Eugene Allen Smith's geological survey trips; various scenes from the University of Alabama campus, building the Smith Hall, Central Iron & Coal in Holt, Alabama, and mining sites, museum artifacts, maps, pages from books, and his family.
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Eugene Allen Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1286
Overview
Contains field notes, correspondence letters, receipts, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorandum, notebooks, copy of the Crimson White (Commencement edition), and dinner guest list for E.A. Smith's 70th birthday party.
Dates:
1837-1921
Eugene Allen Smith Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-024
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.
Dates:
1813 - 1927
Albert John Farrah manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0505
Overview
Typescript manuscripts of two textbooks (two copies of each) created by Albert John Farrah, Dean of the University of Alabama Law School from 1912 until shortly before his death in June of 1944.
Dates:
1934
Farris Dale Beason Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-216
Overview
This collection consists of twenty-four photographs of two homecoming parades at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1963 - 1964
Margaret Faulk collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0507
Overview
Letters and other materials regarding this University of Alabama librarian; most of the collection relates to her illness and death.
Dates:
1932-1942
Fletcher Moore Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-017
Overview
This collection depicts photographs of the University of Alabama and men in Ku Klux Klan clothes.
Dates:
1935
William Baker Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers University of Alabama materials
Collection — Box: 2339
Identifier: MSS-0523
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
Dates:
1943-1946
Folder 5, 1900
File — Box: 6148, Folder: 005
Identifier: Folder 5
Overview
Photographs of students at the Woods Hall at the University of Alabama campus.
Dates:
1900
Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Overview
Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Dates:
1959-1984
President Richard C. Foster Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-008
Overview
This record group contains the presidential records of Dr. Richard C. Foster, University of Alabama president from 1937 to 1941.
Dates:
1923-1948
Richard Clarke Foster scrapbooks and papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0537
Overview
Scrapbook and folder containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming president of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1941
President John M. Gallalee Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-012
Overview
This record group contains the presidental records of John M. Gallalee, president of The University of Alabama from 1948 to 1953.
Dates:
1927-1975
Marian Gallaway papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0554
Overview
Collection of play scripts, theatre notes, research, programs, and photographs compiled by the long-time director of the University of Alabama Theater.
Dates:
after 1948
Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2007-002
Overview
This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates:
1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930
George Benagh promissory note
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1603
Abstract
Promissory note dated January 1, 1858, in which The University of Alabama agreed to pay $150 to W. J. Hays for the use of a slave named Paul for one year. The note was signed by George Benagh, a professor acting on behalf of the University.
Dates:
1858-01-01
George Corley Wallace Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-210
Abstract
Thirty black and white photographs depicting George Wallace at the University of Alabama 1973 19 November during the homecoming activities. It was the Alabama versus Georgia homecoming football game, and Terry Points was the first African American awarded homecoming queen.
Dates:
1973-11-19
Guild of Professional Writers for Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0601
Overview
Materials related to the organization's activities, including its statement of purpose, membership applications and rolls, correspondence, newspaper clippings, works of members, announcements, calendars, newsletters, minutes, and financial records.
Dates:
1977-1999; Majority of material found within 1992 - 1994
Wiley Hagler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0607
Overview
Correspondence, school papers, clippings, and photographs.
Dates:
1901-1972
Virginia Hansen scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0622
Overview
Scrapbook kept during the 13th annual session of summer school for teachers at the University of Alabama, June 8-July 19, 1916, that includes photographs, autographs, anecdotes, notes of social events, a newsletter, and postcards of University of Alabama scenes.
Dates:
1916-1917
Marvin P. Harper papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0632
Abstract
A variety of documents covering: slave ownership documents concerning crimes and deaths; Farrah Law Society plaque; UA football picture from 1920s; Church programs; Stamps; Daughters of the Confederacy minutes. McCall diploma, 1879; and Kennedy family papers.
Dates:
1875-1930
Bessie Leach Hayden paper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0651
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.
Dates:
circa 1953
Jesse C. Hearne, Jr. Scrapbook of Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. on the University of Alabama Campus, 1936
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2567
Overview
Contains scrapbook kept by Jesse C. Hearne Jr., highlighting events of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. groups on the University of Alabama campus in 1936. It is primarily newspaper clippings, but there are 13 photographs.
Dates:
1936
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates:
1840-1925
Hill Ferguson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0511
Overview
Correspondence, clippings, and reports about The University of Alabama collected by this alumnus and trustee of the institution.
Dates:
1892-1964
Hillel Foundation Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0672
Overview
Records, mostly correspondence of Rabbi Henry A. Fischel (1948-1956), relating to the activities of the Hillel Foundation and its role in student life at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1944 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1956
"In Honor of the Cadets who Loyally and Courageously defended Tuscaloosa during Croxton's raid April 4th, 1865, and all those University Students who served" Print
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4193
Overview
Framed print listing the names of the University of Alabama Cadets who were part of the defense of Tuscaloosa in 1865.
Dates:
unknown
Ira Stark Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-023
Abstract
Sixteen black and white photographs of University of Alabama scenes, including students, football parade, ROTC functions and Governor Bibb Graves. Photographs were probably taken by Ira Stark, a University of Alabama student and graduate of 1940.
Dates:
1930 - 1947
Linda Jackson scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3546
Overview
Scrapbook of the historical places on the University of Alabama campus
Dates:
after 1950
Jacob Frederic Goossen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0579
Overview
Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1940-1995
James Austin Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview
A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates:
1898-1941
James Harry Cowan Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2008-006
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of one photographic album with sixty-two photographs of James Harry Cowan, a University of Alabama student from 1915 - 1918. Scenes include University athletes and sporting events, pre-game activities in front of Woods Hall, in Birmingham and Rickwood Park. Also contains newspaper clippings and memorabilia.
The collection contains one card printed on one side with The University of Alabama Alma Mater and on the reverse side the song "God Save, Keep, and Hold Our Men," a...
Dates:
1915 - 1918
James Thomas Murfee Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1031
Abstract
Letters to L. C. Garland, President of the University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.
Dates:
1863 - 1864
James W. Horner Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-212
Overview
This collection consists of one photograph of the University of Alabama Marching Band on the steps of the Amelia Gorgas Library.
Dates:
1943
James William Oakley Jr. Photographs
Collection — Box: 38034.001
Identifier: 2010-020
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.
Dates:
1956 February
Jefferson Jackson Coleman Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-002
Overview
This collection consists of fifty-five photographs of the former Director of Alumni Affairs at the University of Alabama.
He was closely involved in athletics at the University of Alabama. The photographs show various aspects of his life from 1918 through 1989.
Dates:
1918 - 1989
Jerry A. Davis, Jr. Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-200
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.
Dates:
1979 - 1989
Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
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.
Dates:
1820-1920
Jubilee Singers of the University of Alabama Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-004
Overview
This collection consists of colored photographs relating to the Jubilee Singers' 1972 and 1973 concert tours of northeast Alabama.
Dates:
1972 - 1973
Kappa Alpha Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-062
Abstract
This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the Kappa Alpha Order members at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
1951 - 1988
Lamar McCarty Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2009-196
Overview
This collection consists of twelve photographs of homecoming festivities at the University of Alabama, probably taken by Lamar McCarty, University of Alabama Graduate (1938).
Dates:
1937 - 1938
Lecture notes on John W. Abercrombie
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Abstract
Notes for a class lecture on Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama. Includes information on the construction of University buildings during his tenure, as well as his conflicts with former acting president and Latin professor William S. Wyman.
Dates:
not dated
Autherine Lucy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0881
Abstract
Court documents dealing with a suit brought by Autherine Lucy and Polly Anne Myers against The University of Alabama, as well as an invitation to her 1956 wedding and a newspaper clipping written when she graduated from UA with her master's degree in elementary education.
Dates:
1953 - 1957
Presidents Nathaniel T. Lupton, Josiah Gorgas, and William S. Wyman Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-249
Overview
This record group contains a letterbook with correspondence to and from three Unversity of Alabama presidents, Nathaniel T. Lupton, Josiah Gorgas, and William S. Wyman, from 1871 to 1879.
Dates:
1871 - 1879
Manly Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0900
Abstract
Includes the papers of Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, 1837-1855, and a founder of Furman University, which reflect the history of the period as well as his life as theologian and educator. It also contains materials created and gathered by other Manly family members, including his sons Basil and Charles, president of Furman University, 1881-1897.
Dates:
1818 - 1930
Daniel Thompson McCall, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0393
Overview
Three photographs of U. of A. students between 1884-1887 and an article by McCall about Alabamians who went to California during the 1849 "Gold Rush."
Dates:
1849-1887
University of Alabama, Frank M. Moody Music Building articles
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3702
Overview
Articles covering the construction and dedication of the Frank M. Moody Music Building on the University of Alabama campus in 1987 and 1988.
Dates:
1987-1988