Box 2826
Contains 16 Results:
General Order
General Order No. 107 from Chief Surgeon S. Cooper's office in Richmond, Virginia, modifies an earlier order delineating medical officers' reasons for issuing medical furloughs for soldiers. Chief Surgeon A. S. Mason added a note that approved the message.
Scrapbook Materials
This collection consists of seven pages of material, mostly photocopied, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama. The signature "Douthitt" is discernable in the bottom corner of the page. Several of the photocopied pages contain articles relating to the death of Major John L. M. Pelham of Calhoun County, Alabama, during the Civil War in March 1863.
Papers
Miscellaneous financial documents and copy of General Order No. 38-A, American Expeditionary Forces, February 28, 1919 (letter from General John J. Pershing to soldiers at the end of World War I).
Papers
The collection contains a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming the president of the University of Alabama. There is also a folder of photocopied correspondence, tributes, and newspaper clippings.
Harold Dunn
The collection contains a research paper written by Harold Dunn for an American Studies class (AMS 251 - American Folklore) written in 1991 and titled "The Annual Miss Winterboro High School Beauty Pageant and Its Significance to the Community." Dunn received an "A" for the paper from Professor Bealle.
Statement
The collection contains a joint statement made by Jack Drake, Ralph Knowles and George Dean, relating to an alleged undercover informant/agent provocateur during student unrest in 1971(?).
Paper
The collection contains an essay about folk dancing at the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, a school founded in 1907 in Fairhope, Alabama. Marietta Johnson was a well-known progressive educator who founded this school in south Alabama that allows children to learn without examinations or grades.
Paper
The collection contains an essay by Ashley Liles on deer hunting, ghost tales, Tom Haney, dipping, pranks, the hunter, and vocabulary
Church ledger, 1850 - 1895
Records of this Baptist church in Elmore County, Alabama, including lists of members and monthly meeting minutes.
Papers
This collection contains a letter by Reece to a Mrs. Tuomey, describing his arrival in Vicksburg; a letter from William Garrard to H. F. Reese about his brother Henry; and a paper written by H. F. Reese about his brother's life.
Notebook
This notebook contains Meek's lecture notes for his English literature classes for 1872 and 1873, as well as poem by A. J. Ryan. Printed schedules for essays and orations of the senior class of 1872-1873 and printed copies of senior class examinations in English Literature, February 1873, and in English Philology, June 1873, are pasted inside the covers.
Promissory note
Promissory note dated January 1, 1858, in which The University of Alabama agreed to pay $150 to W. J. Hays for the use of a slave named Paul for one year. The note is signed by George Benagh, a professor acting on behalf of the University.
Abstract of title for Lot 33, Capleswood Terrace in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1921-1929
The collection contains a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming the president of the University of Alabama. There is also a folder of photocopied correspondence, tributes, and newspaper clippings.
Two studio photographs of Richard Clarke Foster as a baby and a young boy
The collection contains a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming the president of the University of Alabama. There is also a folder of photocopied correspondence, tributes, and newspaper clippings.
Papers
A collection of documents relating to the bankruptcy case of Thomas B. Strong of Madison County, Alabama.