Box 3434

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of six reports written by Mattie B. Rowe of Alabama as the Supreme Juvenile Matron between 1943 and 1952 – five reports to the biennial sessions of the Supreme Court of the Order of Calanthe and one annual report for the Grand Court of the Order of the Calanthe of the state of Alabama. In these reports she describes the size and status of the various Juvenile Departments across the United States and in Alabama.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists of five documents on Collective Protection probably produced by the “civil defense” type authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, and Birmingham, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. A comment in one of the documents which helps date these articles, states that “Recent experience in England has shown that air raid casualties among the civilian population are in almost direct proportions to the extent to which the people fail to take cover and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter dated 28 June 1850 from the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, appointing Gibson to a four-year term as Marshal of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains a final inspection report and blueprints for Segco Mine Number One in Walker County, Alabama.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains brochures for the Steel Furniture Company of Cullman, Alabama, selling children's steel gym sets.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains brochures for Arlington House wrought iron furniture sets that were sold by Steel Furniture Company in Cullman, Alabama.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: A miscellany of materials relating to the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railway Company's Fairfield Steelworks, later a part of the United States Steel Company's industrial empire. These include a copy of an employees dressing card, for treatment of injuries by physician (1921); a "Plan of Fairfield Steelworks, Tennessee Coal, Iron & R.R. Co, Birmingham, Alabama" (1931); "Specifications for a Tar Distillation and Naphthalene Refining Plant for Tennessee Iron and Coal Division, United States...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: A paper written by Stephanie O. Staten on the history of the Robinshon family from Birmingham, Alabama. Includes a certificate for "Robinson Family Reunion Day"

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Two political broadsides relating to John M. Miller's campaign for the office of mayor of Cordova, Alabama, possibly in 1947.

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.