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Box SC1900-1949.008

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Papers and index cards

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains four reel-to-reel tapes made by University of Alabama professors I. Willis Russell and James B. McMillan, as part of a UA Research Grant in 1940-1941. The purpose of the grant was to study the different speech patterns and intonations of Alabamians from each county in the state. Each participant read the same two scripts that included most of the variable speech sounds and features of American English and Southern American English. Also included are copies of the...
Dates: 1940 - 1941

Paper

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4058.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains documents pertaining to the history of the Shotwell and Bradford families including genealogical material.

Dates: after 1900

Paper

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4059.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains Woolsey Finnell's responses to some of John Little reminiscences written in 1947.

Dates: after 1947

Diary

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4065.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains the diary of a young woman in Cordova, Alabama, in 1918.

Dates: 1918

Diary

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4066.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains the diary of Edward V. Hall detailing his entrance and journey through Officers' and Flight Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, just days after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Habor, Hawaii, in December 1942.

Dates: 1941-1943

Diary

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4067.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a five-year diary of a young woman in Alabama. In it she tells of her friendships, dating, church and work life.

Dates: 1933-1937

Letters - March 27-June 15, 1945

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4118.01
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters from Paul Gilbert Stroud Jr., a U.S. Air Force serviceman in World War II, to his family in New Hampshire while he was stationed at Gunter Field in Alabama during the spring and summer of 1945. He describes his various duties and events during his four-month tour at Gunter. One of the letters describes the crash of a B-25 "with a crew of 8 negroes... during a take-off from this field. It happened shortly after midnight. They all were killed...
Dates: 1945 March - July

Letters - July 1945

 File — Box: SC1900-1949.008, Folder: 4118.02
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters from Paul Gilbert Stroud Jr., a U.S. Air Force serviceman in World War II, to his family in New Hampshire while he was stationed at Gunter Field in Alabama during the spring and summer of 1945. He describes his various duties and events during his four-month tour at Gunter. One of the letters describes the crash of a B-25 "with a crew of 8 negroes... during a take-off from this field. It happened shortly after midnight. They all were killed...
Dates: 1945 March - July