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Box 3434

 Container

Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:

Papers

 Item — 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.
Dates: 1943–1952

Documents

 Item — Box: 3434
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...
Dates: 1941-1945

Letter

 File — Box: 3434
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.
Dates: 1850 June 28