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Williams, A. S., III

 Person

Found in 150 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0095
Overview Contains copies of four speeches written by Talladega educator Joseph B. Graham and presented to various civic and social clubs; also contains one letter signed by Selma politician Edmund Pettus
Dates: 1884-1902

John Temple Graves II papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0109
Overview Manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings written by and related to Birmingham newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II.
Dates: 1910-1967

Columbus L. Hadaway memoir

 Collection
Identifier: W-0118
Overview Typescript of Confederate soldier Columbus L. Hadaway's military memoir.
Dates: 1913

James Hall and Myra Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0023
Overview Two copies of Hall's "The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Alabama Prior to 1826" and a notebook detailing his sermons and revival participation from September 1886 through May 1887; a large portion of the notebook contains Myra Hall's writings
Dates: 1886-1904

Virginia J. Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Overview Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."
Dates: 1912-1937

Joseph Zebulon Hearst letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0123
Overview Typescript transcriptions of twenty-one letters written by Confederate soldier Joseph Zebulon Hearst between May 1862 and December 1864.
Dates: 1931

Townsend Heaton letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Overview Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Dates: 1861-1864

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

"The Home of the Brownings"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0092
Overview Handwritten notes Octavia Walton Le Vert used during her lecture, "Home of the Brownings," which described her 1855 visit to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Dates: circa 1870

Sarah Shorter Hunter commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0019
Overview Commonplace book of Eufaula, Alabama, resident containing handwritten recipes, poems, quotations, and notes. In addition, the book includes a small number of newspaper clippings.
Dates: approximately 1835-1894

J. Zelinski Camp O'Neal sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0038
Overview This sketchbook contains nineteen pen and ink drawings that depict training drills, camp life, and social events held at Camp O'Neal, a training base located in Frascati Park in Mobile, Alabama.
Dates: 1883 June

Jack D. L. Holmes papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0001
Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.
Dates: 1963-1988

Thomas K. Jackson journals

 Collection
Identifier: W-0021
Overview Four journals documenting the daily life of Thomas K. Jackson.
Dates: 1866-1873

Jennie C. Lee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0113
Overview Contains photographs, letters, programs, and other materials created and collected by Lee, who was director of the Tuskegee Choir for twenty-five years (1903-1928).
Dates: 1891 - 1938

John Forbes and Company land records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0074
Overview Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memoranda and notes concerning the partners of this mercantile firm.
Dates: 1799-1849

John Mason Dill Archive: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WP-006
Overview This collection consists of photographs, drawings and graphic materials depicting John Mason Dill and his coworkers at the end of his working career as one of the draftsman at the engineering office at the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company in Birmingham and Fairfield, Alabama.
Dates: 1911 - 1951

Andrew McClure Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0070
Overview Patent documents, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Andrew McClure Jones.
Dates: 1879-1892

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

Walter Burgwyn Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0110
Overview Speeches, pamphlets, correspondence, and other materials related to the life and career of Alabama circuit court judge Walter Burgwyn Jones.
Dates: 1877 - 1981

Mary C. Kelly scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0036
Overview Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.
Dates: 1855 - 1866

Harriet Anna Kennedy papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0117
Overview Notebook of poems written by Harriet Anna Kennedy between 1863-1864. A letter and a small collection of later poems written by Kennedy and members of her extended family are also included.
Dates: 1863-1903

R. Landesberger letter and music

 Collection
Identifier: W-0121
Overview Handwritten letter and sheet of music from Geneva (Switzerland) professor Dr. R. Landesberger to President Woodrow Wilson, dated January 7, 1919. A typed transcript of the letter is also included.
Dates: 1919 January 7

Lavinia Hetherling Leinau commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0124
Overview Tennessee resident Lavinia Heatherling Leinau's commonplace book, containing poetry and notes from friends
Dates: 1831 - 1879; Majority of material found within 1831 - 1836

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

Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

 Collection
Identifier: WP-2013001
Overview This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Dates: 1909 - 1924

Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: W-0033
Overview Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.
Dates: 1924

State of Louisiana troop expenses ledger

 Collection
Identifier: W-0067
Overview Expenses ledger for Louisiana state troops from 1862 to 1863.
Dates: 1862-1863

"Mammy stories"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0026
Overview Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Dates: between 1900 and 1920

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Overview Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace
Dates: 1947 - 1948

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Overview Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.
Dates: 1849-1861

McAdory and Huey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0069
Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama
Dates: 1863-1929

Aurora Pryor McClellan commonplace and autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0015
Overview Sketches, quotations, brief journal entries, and several letters.
Dates: 1861-1903

"Tall Shadows: Origins and Operations of McGriff, Seibels, and Williams, Inc., Insurance Brokers"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0028
Overview Unpublished corporate history of McGriff, Seibels and Williams Inc., one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates: 1985

Robert H. McKenzie dissertation, correspondence, and notes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0072
Overview Copy of Robert H. McKenzie's dissertation, "A History of the Shelby Iron Company, 1865-1881," and a small collection of correspondence and research notes related to the dissertation.
Dates: 1971

Midway, Alabama, city records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0046
Overview Handwritten copy of the town charter with all ordinances from 1882 to 1937, court records, and town council minutes for the town of Midway, Alabama.
Dates: 1882-1937

Milner Coal and Railroad Company meeting minutes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0101
Overview Minutes of directors and stockholders' meetings between 1900 and 1910
Dates: 1900-1910

Early Huntsville, Alabama, letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0100
Overview Two unrelated letters, dated from 1822 and 1831, containing information about Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates: 1822, 1831

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0050
Overview Scrapbook of newspaper articles from Confederate newspapers (probably in Mobile, Alabama) documenting Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Lexington, and the Battle of Leesburg.
Dates: 1861-1862

Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Overview Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
Dates: 1821-1838

Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger

 Collection
Identifier: W-0031
Overview Ledger documenting expenses, admittances, and discharges at a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital from 1 April to 4 November 1861.
Dates: 1861

Montgomery and West Point Railroad minute books

 Collection
Identifier: W-0102
Overview Contains two minute books, with entries from directors' and stockholders' meetings of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad from March 1846 to June 1870.
Dates: 1846-1870

J. A. Montgomery business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Overview Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
Dates: 1889-1898

Mechanics' Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 (Montgomery, Ala.) records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0096
Overview Contains records of the Montgomery Mechanics' Hook and Ladder Company.
Dates: 1867-1899

John Tyler Morgan letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0131
Overview An undated letter from Senator John Tyler Morgan to Alabama governor Joseph F. Johnston regarding the transfer of Major Barnard Goldsmith West from the Birmingham state troops to the staff of General Wheeler.
Dates: circa 1896-1900

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

Morris E. Boss letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0078
Overview Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.
Dates: 1861-1865

Collection on the Murder of Father Coyle

 Collection
Identifier: W-0094
Overview Contains an affidavit, newspaper clipping and the research notes compiled by lawyer John C. Morrow related to the 1921 murder of Birmingham priest Father James Coyle and the subsequent trial of Edwin Stephenson.
Dates: 1921

Joseph Murrell letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Overview Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.
Dates: 1861

Philip P. Neely scrapbook of fugitive fiction

 Collection
Identifier: W-0022
Overview Scrapbook containing handwritten notes and newspaper clippings related to Philip P. Neely's writings
Dates: 1851-1856

Edward R. Norville diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0105
Overview Diary of Edward R. Norville, a Mobile, Alabama, river pilot.
Dates: 1873-1891