Box 2646

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains material created and gathered as research for "A North Alabama Country Boy's Journey into the World of Nuclear Technology," a paper written for Professor Gary Mills, the University of Alabama, 1982. The materials include the completed paper, rough draft, a photocopy of the paper, research notes, and cassette tapes. The paper is about Lester Elkin Burkhart, who worked in the United States atomic energy program. The cassette tapes contain interviews with Burkhart,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of several items from Curry's tenure at the University of Alabama, among them season tickets for the Alabama baseball team's 1913, 1915, and 1916 seasons, and about twenty-eight invitations to social events and organizations. The larger portion of the collection is a bound collection of correspondence relating to reunions of the University of Alabama class of 1916, beginning with a commencement program, continuing through the earliest reunion in 1921, and concluding...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of several items from Curry's tenure at the University of Alabama, among them season tickets for the Alabama baseball team's 1913, 1915, and 1916 seasons, and about twenty-eight invitations to social events and organizations. The larger portion of the collection is a bound collection of correspondence relating to reunions of the University of Alabama class of 1916, beginning with a commencement program, continuing through the earliest reunion in 1921, and concluding...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The collection contains a miscellany of University of Alabama materials, including an 1893 Society of the Alumni Reunion and Banquet Program; an 1896 special insert to the student newspaper, the Crimson White; a 1910 commencement program; four of Rose Wallace Turner’s grade reports from 1927-1928; and a letter from University President George H. Denny dated July 3, 1928, containing words of praise and encouragement.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Photocopy of a typescript paper on the history of a Colt pistol carried by Henry Preston Rosser in the Civil War as a member of Shockley’s Independant Escort Company from Alabama.