Cather & Brown Books
Organization
Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
History of the Alabama Democratic Party Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3025
Overview
Letters, poll lists, and ephemera relating to the Democratic Party of Alabama.
Dates:
1896-1946
Alabama ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3677
Overview
Items relating to Alabama places, politics and segregation.
Dates:
unknown
Edmund Armes papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0086
Overview
Typed correspondence and telegrams from Armes in his capacity as Birmingham, Alabama chairman of the Sewanee (University of the South) endowment campaign to area Episcopalians, seeking donations for the institution. The collection also contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the campaign, and information on fundraising events.
Dates:
1919
Bessemer Civic Music Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0144
Abstract
Collection of items relating to this club from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, including programs, press releases, clippings, etc.
Dates:
1949-1954
Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
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.
Dates:
1886-1982
Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
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.
Dates:
1873
Birmingham Coal and Coke Company shipping records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0160
Abstract
Ledger of shipping records including destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.
Dates:
1920-1923
Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0163
Overview
One ledger that records the association's meetings from 1913-1916.
Dates:
1913-1916
Birmingham Real Estate Board banquet program
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0164
Abstract
Part of the program and text of the 1940 annual banquet of the Birmingham Real Estate Board, held on 16 January 1941.
Dates:
1941 January 16
Henry Conrad Blanford papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0171
Abstract
Bound prayer book and related materials dealing with this Lay Reader of the Episcopal Church's healing missions in Anniston and Ensley, Alabama.
Dates:
1920-1922
Sarah Blue collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0177
Abstract
A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, “My Golden School Days.”
Dates:
1894-circa 1915
Bluff Park United Methodist Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0178
Overview
A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1978-1981
Bootlegging Court records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0188
Abstract
One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.
Dates:
1871-1881
Walter Henry Crenshaw commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0373
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.
Dates:
circa 1835-1886
Creole Social Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0374
Overview
Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.
Dates:
1878-1902
L. H. Crumpler records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0380
Overview
A collection of records of Crumpler's general store in Sylacauga, Alabama, and of his activities as justice of the peace.
Dates:
1892-1909
Daphne Cunningham Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0385
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.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
Ezell Store ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0498
Abstract
Record book for store located in either Grove Hill, Clarke County, Alabama, or Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1879-1910
S. D. Logan papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0873
Overview
A handmade book celebrating the 25th wedding anniversary of S. D. Logan and his wife Ivey and a Centreville, Alabama, newspaper from 1936
Dates:
1898-1936
Modern Woodmen of America, Lim Rock, Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1007
Overview
Ledger from the Lim Rock, Alabama, chapter of the Modern Woodmen of America
Dates:
unknown
E.D. Nixon article reprints
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2963
Overview
A collection of reproductions of articles concerning E.D. Dixon, the organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Dates:
1955-1982
Oak Hill Memorial Association papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2964
Overview
Correspondence and documents from the Oak Hill Memorial Association, caretakers of Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1913-1953
Oscar W. Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0010
Abstract
Correspondence of this Birmingham, Alabama, minister of the A.M.E. Zion Church, principally concerning the struggle to remain solvent during the Great Depression. Also includes budget sheets, receipts, reports, and legal documents for this and other A.M.E churches throughout the South.
Dates:
1909 - 1952
Phillips-Lester Manufacturing Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1140
Overview
Contains the records of this clothing company including: papers on the correct measurement styles and clothing type for menswear, safety manual, audit records, and transaction booklet.
Dates:
unknown
Walter H. Powers letterbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1779
Abstract
A single letterbook containing copies of Gurley, Alabama businessman Walter H. Powers's outgoing correspondence, March-October 1938
Dates:
1938
Charles H. Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3060
Overview
Letters written to Charles H. Scott and others concerning Republican party politics in Alabama.
Dates:
1889-1906
Selma and Meridian Railroad ledger and journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1778
Abstract
Two corporate account books for the Selma and Meridian Railroad, 1885: the ledger, which details payments and receipts by date, and the journal, which records them by firm or individual.
Dates:
1880-1885
W. C. Strong letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0132
Abstract
A January 1927 letter by W. C. Strong of Mobile, Alabama, recounting the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert F. Bell, Jr., an employee of the Munson Steam Ship Company docks who died on the job in late 1926.
Dates:
1927
Taylor versus Robinson bill of complaint
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1384
Abstract
Bill of complaint with appended exhibits in the case of Taylor vs. Robinson, involving the alleged misuse or misappropriation of monies and property by the administrator of the estate of Byrd Brandon.
Dates:
Undated; post 1865
Louis W. Turpin plantation store ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1431
Overview
Two sales ledgers for a plantation store belonging to Louis W. Turpin of New Berne, Alabama. Contains daily listings by person, listing what they purchased and how much each item cost. One book is from April 21-July 17 1879, and the other is January 1 - March 9, 1880.
Dates:
1879-1880
Uniontown Methodist Church Women's Missionary Society records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1465
Abstract
This collection consists of a ledger containing meeting minutes, membership rolls, dues, and etc., for the early 1880s. It also contains a copy of an inspirational talk on missions and a photocopy of a history of the Women's Missionary Society.
Dates:
1880-1940; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1885
George Corley Wallace Presidential Campaign Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1511
Overview
An information pack from Wallace's 1972 presidential campaign.
Dates:
1968
Carrie Watkins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1531
Overview
Letters, recipes, and love poems, as well as her diary, written between 1857 and 1864 in Huntsville, Alabama, with her daily thoughts, favorite excerpts from literature and history, math problems, drawings of architecture, and problem solving.
Dates:
1857-1864