Williams, A. S., III
Person
Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:
A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Collection
Identifier: W-0083
Overview
Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.
Dates:
1929
A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book
Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Overview
Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Dates:
1861-1869
A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's small Civil War manuscript collections
Collection
Identifier: W-0150
Overview
A variety of individual items and small collections that relate to the Civil War
Dates:
1860 - 2007
A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's small manuscript collections
Collection
Identifier: W-0129
Overview
A wide variety of individual and small collections consisting of letters, financial materials, and business records, all of which relate to Alabama or the South.
Dates:
1800 - 1970
A. S. Williams III Cartes de Visite Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-001
Overview
The collection contains approximately 3,400 cartes de visite, small photographs mounted on thin pieces of cardboard popular in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The images primarily depict portraits of individuals, many of which are not identified.
Dates:
circa 1854-1910
A. S. Williams III Civil Rights Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-016
Overview
This collection consists of photographs and manuscripts related to the United States Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). The images depict major events, key figures, and opposition from hate groups. While the collection focuses heavily on Alabama, there are additional events and locations represented.
Dates:
1920 - 1985
A. S. Williams III Collection Aquisition Paperwork
Collection
Identifier: W-0116
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, cost estimates, brochures, plans, notes, and various other documents regarding the A.S. Williams III Americana Collection and the University of Alabama Libraries' acquisition of the collection from Mr. A.S. Williams III. Correspondence is primarily between the University of Alabama's Dean of Libraries, Louis A. Pitschmann, and various university offices and personnel, Mr. Williams, and Stephen Rowe (curator and archivist of the Eufaula Athenaeum). Also included are...
Dates:
2008 - 2010
A. S. Williams III Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: WP-002
Overview
The collection consists of both black-and-white and color twentieth century postcards collected by Mr. A.S. Williams III. The postcards represent many subjects, including states, foreign countries, civil war battle sites, Confederate monuments, and other Americana.
Dates:
1900 - 1960
Adam H. Whetstone diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0080
Overview
Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Alabama Anthropological Society records
Collection
Identifier: W-0059
Overview
Records of this early Alabama society, including correspondence, reports, newsletters, and photographs.
Dates:
1920-1922, 1958; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1922
A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's Alabama authors collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0064
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, signed book pages, publication announcements, catalogs, and newspaper clippings related to the careers of several Alabama authors as well as the Alabama Writers Conclave and the Birmingham Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
Dates:
1868-1989
Alabama Coal and Iron records
Collection
Identifier: W-0062
Overview
Correspondence, annual reports and audits, maps, and other material related to coal and iron production in Alabama.
Dates:
1874 - 1943
Alabama hotels and resorts of the past collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0041
Overview
Letters, receipts, and transcribed copies of newspaper articles pertaining to notable Alabama hotels, including the Exchange Hotel (Montgomery), the Morris Hotel (Birmingham), the Battle House (Mobile), the DeKalb Hotel (Fort Payne), Fruithurst Inn (Fruithurst), the Alabama Inn (Livingston), Mansion House (Mobile), the Green Bottom Inn (Huntsville), and the Point Clear Hotel (Point Clear).
Dates:
1830-1836
Alabama railroads of the past collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0042
Overview
Stock certificates, shipping receipts, and correspondence related to the operation and history of seven Alabama railroads: the Mobile & Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad Company, the Alabama & Mississippi Rivers Railroad, the Mobile & Girard Railroad Company, the Montgomery Southern Railway, the Tennessee & Alabama Railroad, the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, and the Montgomery Traction Company.
Dates:
1855-1945
Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes
Collection
Identifier: W-0037
Overview
Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Dates:
1916
Alfred Morris diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0115
Overview
Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.
Dates:
1862 - 1863
Alfred Parmenter papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0153
Overview
Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents
Dates:
1861 - 1862
Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Alison Johansen papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0058
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, typescripts, and galley proofs of sisters and Alabama authors Alice Alison Lide and Margaret Allison Johnson.
Dates:
1917-1959
American Settlement Company letter and constitution
Collection
Identifier: W-0135
Overview
Constitution of the American Settlement Company (a subscription company which sold plots of land to Kansas settlers) and a letter written by a company representative
Dates:
1855-06-11
Andrew Jackson Riddle papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0162
Overview
Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.
Dates:
1864 - 1956
Andrew McClure Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0070
Overview
Patent documents, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Andrew McClure Jones.
Dates:
1879 - 1892
Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book
Collection
Identifier: W-0015
Overview
Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.
Dates:
1861-1903
B. L. Holt correspondence on the 1908 Confederate Veterans Reunion
Collection
Identifier: W-0044
Overview
Holt's correspondence between May and June 1908, relating to his duties as quartermaster general in securing hotels accommodations and horses for Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and members of his staff who participated in the veteran's parade and other reunion events.
Dates:
1908
Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860, volume 2, manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: W-0007
Overview
Includes a carbon copy of the manuscript Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860, volume 2, written by William H. Brantley Jr. The bound manuscript is 371 pages long and covers the history of banking in the state from 1837 to 1849; it is part of a two-volume work that covers the years 1816-1860.
Dates:
1967
J. D. Barron research material on Native Americans
Collection
Identifier: W-0088
Overview
Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.
Dates:
1887-1906
Battle family papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0010
Overview
Letters, calling cards, scripture cards, and a small journal of this Tuskegee, Alabama, family.
Dates:
1855-1871
Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0160
Overview
A variety of reprinted and clipped articles from various journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as bibliographical and general notes, discussing the Civil War from many angles, including medical, literary, restitution, and even specific battles and generals.
Dates:
1859 - 1979
Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs
Collection
Identifier: W-0077
Overview
Record book of Chaplain Benjamin Franklin Whittemore of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts, describing the military service of its members
Dates:
1863 - 1887
Benjamin Rice Holt Papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0159
Overview
Letters and papers of this Confederate soldier and his family during the Civil War and afterwards.
Dates:
1860 - 1939
Benton Bell Seat memoirs
Collection
Identifier: W-0013
Overview
This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is approximately 200 pages long. Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, and it was typed and produced in 1939 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1916, 1939
Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary minutes
Collection
Identifier: W-0076
Overview
Ledger contains minutes of the Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary. Through the years the members discussed issues such as visiting hours, expanding the operating room, controlling patient behavior, and finding a resident physician to work nights and therefore assist with patients in the maternity ward.
Dates:
1888 - 1896
Booker T. Washington letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0136
Overview
Letter from Booker T. Washington asking for financial support for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The letter is dated November 12, 1915, two days before Washington's death.
Dates:
1915-11-01
Brewster and Conley sales records
Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Overview
Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.
Dates:
1838 - 1846
C. I. B. DeLage letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Overview
A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.
Dates:
1865
C. S. Phillips letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Overview
Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.
Dates:
1865-04-18
Charles Edgeworth Jones congressional autograph journal
Collection
Identifier: W-0128
Overview
Autograph book containing signatures of representatives who served as members of the 28th United States Congress during the 1844-1845 legislative session.
Dates:
1844 - 1845
Charles Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0161
Overview
Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Charles W. Edwards research notes on Coffee County, Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0106
Overview
This collection contains research notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials compiled by Charles W. Edwards and related to his study of Coffee County. The collection also includes two drafts of his completed report, County Government and County Affairs in Coffee County Alabama.
Dates:
1925 - 1928
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II : typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0120
Overview
Unbound typescript of China Marine, written by Eugene Bondurant Sledge. The manuscript is 107 pages long and contains typed publisher's notations about formatting.
Dates:
2002
Coleman and Coleman mercantile records
Collection
Identifier: W-0051
Overview
Two ledgers documenting sales made at the Coleman, Hearst, and Company mercantile, also named Coleman and Coleman, located in Richmond, Alabama, in the 1860s.
Dates:
1861-1862
Coleman and Truss family letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0103
Overview
Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama
Dates:
1860 - 1868
Columbus L. Hadaway memoir
Collection
Identifier: W-0118
Overview
Typescript of Confederate soldier Columbus L. Hadaway's military memoir.
Dates:
1913
Commonplace book on Christianity and slavery
Collection
Identifier: W-0032
Overview
Commonplace book with entries addressing a number of topics, including church politics, theological concerns, childrearing practices, and slavery.
Dates:
between 1840 and 1851
"Confederate memoirs," volumes II and III
Collection
Identifier: W-0012
Overview
Unpublished typescript of the memoirs of twenty Confederate soldiers
Dates:
1861-1865
Confederate Military History of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0056
Overview
Manuscript of General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Military History of Alabama.
Dates:
1899
Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0014
Overview
A handwritten ledger documenting the collection and distribution of foraged and purchased materials by Confederate officers at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi.
Dates:
1862-1864
Cowbellion de Rakin Society initiation ceremony script
Collection
Identifier: W-0035
Overview
Handwritten script outlining an 1847 initiation ceremony conducted by Mobile, Alabama's earliest mystic society, the Cowbellian de Rakin Society.
Dates:
1847
Curtis R. Burke journal
Collection
Identifier: W-0063
Overview
Typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal which includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include descriptions of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863, and accounts of conditions in prison camps in Indiana and Illinois.
Dates:
1971
Dallas Iron Works letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0097
Overview
Contains the Reconstruction-era letterbook of the Dallas Iron Works in Selma, Alabama.
Dates:
1866-1879
Daniel Geary scrapbook on the history of the Mobile Volunteer Fire Companies
Collection
Identifier: W-0024
Overview
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, illustrations, and handwritten notes related to the history of volunteer firefighter companies in Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Daniel Geary.
Dates:
1830-1924