Williams, A. S., III
Person
Found in 150 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas McAdory Owen correspondence on A Bibliography of Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0093
Overview
Contains correspondence between Thomas McAdory Owen and Mississippi authors and scholars regarding Owen's A Bibliography of Mississippi.
Dates:
1896-1909
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
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 April 18
Pickett Springs, Alabama, city records
Collection
Identifier: W-0027
Overview
Ballots, voting lists, city council minutes, oaths of office, and correspondence related to elections in the town of Pickett Springs, Alabama, and a map of the area.
Dates:
1888-1920
Cameron McRae Plummer book list
Collection
Identifier: W-0087
Overview
Contains a list of books compiled by Haunted House Book Shop owner Cameron McRae Plummer.
Dates:
1950-1961
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833-1905
A. S. Williams III Presidential Collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0165
Overview
The collection includes letters, ephemeral, and other non-published materials created by or for all forty-four presidents of the United States.
Dates:
circa 1780 - 2014
Oliver T. Reilly papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0158
Overview
Papers and guidebook covering the Battle of Antietam, created by this childhood witness
Dates:
1906-1930
Reuben Oscar Reynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0163
Overview
Correspondence and records of military service (photocopies) of Reuben O. Reynolds of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
Dates:
1861-1887
Rice, Chilton, and Jones, attorneys, letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0049
Overview
Letterbook containing copies of correspondence written by Montgomery, Alabama, lawyers Samuel F. Rice, John M. Chilton, Thomas G. Jones, and Ariosto A. Wiley, between 1871-1873.
Dates:
1871-1873
Andrew Jackson Riddle papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0162
Overview
Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.
Dates:
1864-1956
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
Rosenstihl Jewelry store records
Collection
Identifier: W-0053
Overview
Ledger recording sales between 1888 and 1904 at the Rosenstihl Jewelry Store in Union Springs, Alabama.
Dates:
1888-1904
T. B. Rush general store daybook
Collection
Identifier: W-0107
Overview
Contains almost daily entries written between April 1835 and July 1836, recording daily sales at a general store in Mount Willing, Alabama.
Dates:
1835-1836
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
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: W-0071
Overview
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Dates:
1863-1865
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
James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0145
Overview
Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."
Dates:
1872 April - May
Robert H. Smith legal notebook
Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Overview
Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.
Dates:
circa 1870
Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Overview
Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.
Dates:
1897
Emma Gelders Sterne papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0099
Overview
Contracts and business correspondence related to the publication of books written by Alabama author Emma Gelders Sterne.
Dates:
1934-1953
T. J. Scott and Sons letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0130
Overview
Two letters written by farmers in Hayneville, Alabama, to Montgomery merchants T. J. Scott and Sons. The 1904 letters describe the sale of mules and ask for refunds from the company, which provided defective livestock.
Dates:
1904
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Records
Collection
Identifier: W-0104
Overview
Two letterbooks, containing copies of letters written by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Assistant General Manager G. B. McCormack from 1893 to 1898. Also includes a ledger documenting the company's tax returns from 1894 to 1895, and photographs depicting TCI industrial complexes.
Dates:
1893-1901
Tentative register of Robert E. Lee books in Lexington, Virginia : typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0126
Overview
Seventy-one page typescript identifies books in Lexington, Virginia, that were once part of Robert E. Lee's personal library
Dates:
1978
George H. Thompson plantation records
Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Overview
Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
Dates:
1855-1874
"To Arms in the Valley" program and script
Collection
Identifier: W-0152
Overview
Program, cast list, and script of To Arms in the Valley, an historical play about the Civil War set in northern Alabama and presented by the Tennessee Valley Historical Society and the Colbert-Lauderdale Civil War Centennial Commemoration Committee in 1961.
Dates:
1961
Mrs. Charles P. McGuire research material on William B. Travis
Collection
Identifier: W-0029
Overview
Correspondence compiled by Mrs. C. P. McGuire in her attempts to trace the genealogy of William B. Travis, who died defending the Alamo in 1836.
Dates:
1921-1958
Henry Tutwiler papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Overview
Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.
Dates:
1862-1884
United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, No. 39, Birmingham, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: W-0048
Overview
Records of the United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, in Birmingham, Alabama, between 1906 and 1919.
Dates:
1906-1919
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
USS Winnebago medical log
Collection
Identifier: W-0108
Overview
The medical log of the USS Winnebago, a Union river monitor stationed in Mobile Bay from 1864 to 1865.
Dates:
1864-1865
Valley Creek Canal, West Jefferson County, Alabama, reports
Collection
Identifier: W-0065
Overview
Two reports on a proposed canal project on the Valley and Warrior Rivers in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Dates:
1917-1943
"Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0151
Overview
Typescript copy of B. L. Roberson's unpublished "Valor on the Eastern Shore."
Dates:
1965
Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Collection
Identifier: W-0157
Overview
Papers documenting the history of Co. F of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including Company demographics and rosters, obituaries, and hand-drawn maps of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863.
Dates:
1883-1918
George Platt Waller papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0085
Overview
Contains photographs, correspondence, and typescript speeches written by diplomat George Platt Waller. Also contains a small journal and receipts related to his father's medical practice.
Dates:
1894-1895, 1952-1961
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 November 1
Howard Weeden papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0008
Overview
Three composition books filled with collections of quotations and illustrations and one book of devotions.
Dates:
between 1735 and 1905
Adam H. Whetstone diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0080
Overview
Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Dates:
1864-1865
James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers
Collection
Identifier: W-0111
Overview
Notebook containing a roster and brief history of Company I of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a regiment formed by students enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University).
Dates:
circa 1860s
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
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
William A. Stickney diary
Collection
Identifier: W-0057
Overview
Diary of Episcopal minister William A. Stickney contains entries dated from 1841-1847. The diary documents Stickney's life as a college student at LaGrange College in Franklin County, Alabama, the University of Alabama, and the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Entries provide information about Stickney's daily life, as well as descriptions of religious services he attended and led, and a description of his personal devotions.
Dates:
1841-1847
A. S. Williams III Collection of Photographic Albums
Collection
Identifier: WP-003
Overview
Collection contains sixty-one photographic albums of various subjects collected by A. S. Williams III
Dates:
1840 - 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
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
J. T. Wiswall papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0011
Overview
Two notebooks, containing mathematical equations and scientific essays, as well as the handwritten manuscripts of J. T. Wiswall's works "The African" and "Iliad of the Family," neither of which were ever published.
Dates:
circa 1860
Collection on women in Alabama
Collection
Identifier: W-0005
Overview
A variety of materials related to several Alabama women, some of whom are well-known in Alabama and the nation, while others were simple women going about their daily lives. This is also the affirmative side of a debate speech presented by Benjamin F. Eborn at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, on the question "Is Woman Really Better Than Man?"
Dates:
1853-1957
Woodward Iron Company records
Collection
Identifier: W-0061
Overview
Correspondence, financial and legal records, annual reports, and employee newsletters produced by the Woodward Iron Company and members of the Woodward Voting Trust, from 1945-1977.
Dates:
1945-1977
J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties
Collection
Identifier: W-0082
Overview
One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.
Dates:
1899