Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of twenty-four essays on Alabama place-names written between 1959 and 1984 by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Dates
- 1959-1984
Creator
- Foscue, Virginia O. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Biographical / Historical
Virginia Oden Foscue was born on 23 June 1933. She graduated with a B.A. degree in 1955 and then in 1959 with a Master’s degree, both from the University of Alabama. She was on the faculty of the Department of English at the University from 1963 until 1993. Foscue died on 27 June 2002 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
Extent
0.8 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.
Provenance
Gift of Virginia Foscue, 1989
General
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Procesed by
Martha Bace, 2008; updated by S. Braden, 2009; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
- Alabama
- Autauga County (Ala.)
- Baldwin County (Ala.)
- Barbour County (Ala.)
- Calhoun County (Ala.)
- Coffee County (Ala.)
- Community and Place
- Coosa County (Ala.)
- Cullman County (Ala.)
- DeKalb County (Ala.)
- Education
- Essays
- Fayette County (Ala.)
- Franklin County (Ala.)
- Hale County (Ala.)
- Jackson County (Ala.)
- Jefferson County (Ala.)
- Limestone County (Ala.)
- Marengo County (Ala.)
- Montgomery County (Ala.)
- Morgan County (Ala.)
- Pickens County (Ala.)
- Saint Clair County (Ala.)
- Shelby County (Ala.)
- Students
- Universities and colleges -- Curricula
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama -- Faculty/Staff
- Walker County (Ala.)
Creator
- Foscue, Virginia O. (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- January 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository