Box 3577

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of information compiled in 1981 during the process of applying for historic designation for this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, district. It includes historical data, newspaper clippings about houses, lists of previous owners, special features of houses, floor plans, and an historical inventory of various homes.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

This collection contains materials on floriculture in Alabama, including papers on roses and on old English boxwoods, a plant inventory of Fendall Hall, Eufaula, Alabama, and indexes of plants mentioned in books on Alabama and Georgia plantations and homes, plus photos, garden plans, and written descriptions from Stitikus's traveling exhibit, "Alabama : Her People, Houses and Gardens," (1986).

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists primarily of lists of dues owed and paid by individuals for the upkeep of Oak Hill cemetery in Talladega, Alabama.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The collection contains typed transcripts of a description of prison life by Alonzo Van Vlack, a Union soldier captured near Athens, Alabama, on September 24, 1864. Besides the five typed copies of letters to his parents in Michigan, written from the parole camp near Vicksburg, there is also one handwritten letter dated December 16, 1864, while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama. [The originals of the typed transcriptions are held by Bentley Library,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains materials such as a Centreville, Alabama, newspaper from 1936 and a handmade book celebrating the 25th wedding anniversary of S. D. Logan and his wife Ivey.