Box 1111
Container
Contains 20 Collections and/or Records:
Receipt, 1862-04-01
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 12
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From the Collection:
A receipt dated 1 April 1862 for freight costs on one horse from J. S. Smith.
Dates:
1862-04-01
Letter, 1831-05-31
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 2
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From the Collection:
A letter dated 31 May 1831, from Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama, to M. P. Collins of Collins and Company, Hartford, Connecticut. It reports on businesses in various towns along the Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers and the axes they stock, noting which sell Collins and Company's goods and which do not.
Dates:
1831-05-31
Letters, 1862
unspecified — Box: 1111, Folder: 15
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From the Collection:
Typescript and illustrations for the book, "Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell," edited by his grandson, William C. Etherton. The letters were written to Mitchell's wife, Rachel Caroline Mitchell, while he was serving in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and north Alabama. The original letters are at the University of Illinois, Carbondale.
Dates:
1862
Testimony, 1878-03-18
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 16
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From the Collection:
Statement dated 18 March 1878 concerning the actions of General John T. Croxton's Union Army forces in seizing Tuscaloosa, Alabama, April 1865.
Dates:
1878-03-18
Papers, 1855 - 1882
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 10
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From the Collection:
This collection contains documents relating to land owned by Josiah Nott in Mobile, one letter from Nott to an unidentified woman named Mary, and letters concerning Sarah Deas Nott's family estate.
Dates:
1855 - 1882
Script, 1933
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 4
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From the Collection:
Typed carbon copy of a film script titled "Napoleon: A Picture in Six Parts." The script is in English, interleaved occasionally with pages of German translation. It is contained in two folders dated 13 October 1933 and 15 October 1933.
Dates:
1933
Writings about General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, list of preparations made
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 13
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From the Collection:
Typescript copy of an article on General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, subsequently published in the Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 1955), pp. 33-77. The collection also contains carbon copies of the author's transcripts of original documents relating to Lafayette's visit.Collected by McCall, these daybooks of an unknown firm with locations in Lower Peach Tree, Wilcox County, Alabama, and Sunny South, Alabama, and list daily transactions. The...
Dates:
1955
Writings about General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, list of preparations made
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Typescript copy of an article on General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, subsequently published in the Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 1955), pp. 33-77. The collection also contains carbon copies of the author's transcripts of original documents relating to Lafayette's visit.Collected by McCall, these daybooks of an unknown firm with locations in Lower Peach Tree, Wilcox County, Alabama, and Sunny South, Alabama, and list daily transactions. The...
Dates:
1955
Writings about General Lafayette's visit to Alabama
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Typescript copy of an article on General Lafayette's visit to Alabama, subsequently published in the Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 17, nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 1955), pp. 33-77. The collection also contains carbon copies of the author's transcripts of original documents relating to Lafayette's visit.Collected by McCall, these daybooks of an unknown firm with locations in Lower Peach Tree, Wilcox County, Alabama, and Sunny South, Alabama, and list daily transactions. The...
Dates:
1955
Receipt, 1833-01-12
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 11
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From the Collection:
A receipt for slave named Anderson, aged about 8 years, sold to Jonathan Orr of Morgan County, Alabama.
Dates:
1833-01-12
Letter, 1857-10-08
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 18
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From the Collection:
A letter dated 8 October 1857, from a student at the University of Alabama to his father, which dicusses student life.
Dates:
1857-10-08
Letter, 1865-06-29
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 21
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From the Collection:
A letter dated 29 June 1865, from St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana to his brother, in an attempt to reconcile, they having parted over this issue of slavery. Addresses the war's effect on him and his family, his reduction to poverty, and his present circumstances.
Dates:
1865-06-29
Petition, 1898-03-23
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 1
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From the Collection:
Petition dated 23 March 1898 from citizens of "Beat 15," which included Montgomery and Crenshaw Counties, to the Board of Revenue, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. The petition requests the construction of a road to be called the "Grady Road."
Dates:
1898-03-23
Documents, 1866
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 5
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From the Collection:
This collection consists of a letter regarding lands due the Wills Valley Railroad Company (part of the Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad) upon completion of 20 miles of track, also an offer to purchase mineral rights to the same from Governor (military?) R. M. Patton, who was also President of the Board of Directors of the Central Mining and Petroleum Company of Alabama. The collection also contains a copy of some legislation.
Dates:
1866
Letter, 1847-06-24
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 19
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From the Collection:
A letter dated 24 June 1847, to British Foreign Secretary Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), concerning the situation in Ireland.
Dates:
1847-06-24
Pencil sketch "On the Alabama" (unknown artist and date)
Item — Box: 1111, Folder: 9
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a variety of prints including: "The First Battle Between 'Iron' Ships of War"; C.S, among others.A. Submarine "H.L. Hunley"; "Famous Tuscaloosa Landmarks" by Richard Brough; the Union Furniture Company Historic Buildings of Tuscaloosa and Northport"; and "C.S.S. 'Alabama' model" built by Raymondy Hunt.
Dates:
1900-
Letter
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 6
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a printed transcript of a letter from Neel to the U.S. Secretary of War, describing a battle with Creek Indians near the Black Warrior River.
Dates:
1818 September 22
Letter
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 8
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From the Collection:
A letter dated 16 July 1918 to a Mr. Owen on the differences between Ku Klux Klan's original prescript and the revised prescript.
Dates:
1916 July 18
Letter
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 17
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From the Collection:
The collection comsists of an official document in French; possibly a copy of an official document signed by King Louis XV.
Dates:
1729 Janvier 19
Letters, 1863 - 1864
File — Box: 1111, Folder: 3
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From the Collection:
Letters to L. C. Garland, President of The University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.
Dates:
1863 - 1864