Cather & Brown Books

Overview Letters, poll lists, and ephemera relating to the Democratic Party of Alabama.

Abstract This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.

Abstract Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Abstract One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.

Overview A copy of the Lawyers Common-Place Book, profusely annotated by Crenshaw with notes on Alabama statute and case law through 1886, and miscellaneous additional items.

Overview A collection of records of Crumpler's general store in Sylacauga, Alabama, and of his activities as justice of the peace.

Overview A letter to Henry Holman Mize discussing Judge James J. Mayfield of Tuscaloosa.

Overview Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.