Box SC0087
Container
Contains 13 Collections and/or Records:
Autobiography
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 167.01
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From the Collection:
This collection consists of a typescript copy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” copyrighted 1985-86. It covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. It was subsequently published in 1987 by the Washington Provider. The collection also contains several clippings of Black’s column “Upward Mobility,” from the ...
Dates:
1985-1987
Correspondence and newspaper clippings
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 167.02
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of a typescript copy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” copyrighted 1985-86. It covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. It was subsequently published in 1987 by the Washington Provider. The collection also contains several clippings of Black’s column “Upward Mobility,” from the ...
Dates:
1985-1987
Letterbook
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 3701.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a book of letters, bound and presented to Morley on his retirement from the University of Alabama in 1968. There is also a photograph of Morley and a newspaper clipping referring to his plans for retirement.
Dates:
1968
Articles
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 3702.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains articles from the Tuscaloosa News, covering the construction and dedication of the Frank M. Moody Music Building on the University of Alabama campus in 1987 and 1988.
Dates:
1987-1988
Letter
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 1177.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains the original, along with a typed transcript of a letter, from Radford in Norfolk, Virginia, to Lieutenant Commander T. C. Harris, commanding U.S.S. Yantic, relative to the security of Jefferson Davis, a prisoner at Fortress Monroe.
Dates:
1865 July 15
Veterans Hospital News article about "Bease"
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 3697.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains the U.S. Army Air Corps dress uniform worn by William George Forsyth during World War II. This uniform was a precursor to the uniforms developed by the military when the United States Army Air Corps morphed into the United States Air Force. The uniform in this collection consists of only the tunic and pants; there are no rank or unit insignia.The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the forerunner of the United States Air Force. Renamed from the Air...
Dates:
circa 1941
Letter and transcription
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 1163.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter dated 22 April 1864, from Head Quarters, Sub-district of the Pamlico, Washington, D.C., to Commander Renshaw, warning him of enemy troop movements. The collection also contains a typed transcript.
Dates:
1864 April 22
Receipts
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 3700.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains two receipts from Huntsville, Alabama, for groceries in 1916 and 1917. The receipts are possibly for the same person, but because the receipt from W.L. Wall Grocery Co. is made out to J.W. Smith (dated 17 February 1916) and the receipt from F.& O. Gudenrath Wholesale Groceries and Produce is made out to John Smith (dated 13 June 1917), it would be impossible to verify.
Dates:
1916-1917
Letter
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 1029.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter from Mullen to his family describng his troops' position in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the probability of a fight with the Union troops just across the river.
Dates:
1862 November 23
Papers
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 402.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains photocopies of the family history of an early northwest Alabama family, one member of whom became mayor of Birmingham in the 1890s. The collection includes personal recollections of the Union Army raid on Tuscaloosa led by John T. Croxton in April 1865, as well as a sketch of the same for a proposed movie script with notes by grandson Alexander Van Hoose Davies. There are also photocopies of memorials of various Van Hoose men, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1925-1980
Poems and song
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 627.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains several poems and one hymn written by Hardin between 1981 and 1986.
Dates:
1981-1986
Broadside
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 3710.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains the small broadside of the 14-verse poem, Flight of Doodle! about the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). Written after the first battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, the song (sung to the tune of Root Hog or Die!) tells how the troops of each Confederate state in the battle trounced the Yankee forces.
Dates:
1862
Letter
File — Box: SC0087, Folder: 68.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter, dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia, " to "Dear Uncle." It contains news of friends and of the war. A penciled annotation identifies Uncle John as John Allison.
Dates:
1862 March 6