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Five Certificates Attesting to the Service of African American Sailors during the Civil War

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4149
Abstract

The affidavits in this collection confirm the service of African American sailors during the Civil War

Dates: 1866-1869

Flag of the Union newspaper index

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3605
Abstract

Index to 1839-1841 issues of the "Flag of the Union" newspaper.

Dates: after 1950

Mrs. Bert Flanders Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2888
Abstract

A scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Mardi Gras in 1941 and other Louisiana topics.

Dates: 1941

H. P. and Elisa K. Fleischman Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0521
Abstract

Letters of a commission merchant in the Caribbean and on the Mississippi River, and his family.

Dates: 1827-1850

John M. Fleming U.S. Land Office Letters of Patent

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3579
Abstract

John M. Fleming Letters of Patent from the U.S. Land Office

Dates: 1825-1987

Fleta McWhorter Dowling and Gwen McWhorter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1643
Abstract

This collection consists of letters between Fleta McWhorter Dowling and her sister Gwen McWhorter, 1943-46, chiefly concerning the latter’s doctoral dissertation subject, some letters from others to Gwen McWhorter, and two Gwen McWhorter problem statements on the use of participation in the development of school health programs.

Dates: 1943 - 1949

John C. Fletcher paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0522
Abstract

Transcript of a presentation by John C. Fletcher at the Alabama Clergy Conference, 1970, on the impact of industrial society and the post-industrial revolution on the youth of America

Dates: 1970 May 14

Fletcher Moore Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-017
Abstract

This collection depicts photographs of the University of Alabama and men in Ku Klux Klan clothes.

Dates: 1935

Robert Court Fletcher World War I Correspondence and Dog Tags

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4151
Abstract

Sixteen letters and postcards from this World War I soldier to his sister in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1918-1919

Flight of Doodle! broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3710
Abstract

Small broadside of the 14-verse poem, Flight of Doodle! about the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas), with each Confederate state's performance in the battle making up a stanza.

Dates: 1862

Elizabeth Finklea Florey Research Collection on Richard Henry Stone

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4098
Abstract

Research papers on Richard Henry Stone, author of In Afric's Forest and Jungle

Dates: 1858-2001

Stewart Flowers collection of 19th century photographs, letters, journals, and artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3708
Abstract

Collection of 19th century photographs, letters, journals, and artifacts

Dates: 1860-1920

William Baker Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers University of Alabama materials

 Collection — Box: 2339
Identifier: MSS-0523
Abstract

Items relating to Walter Flowers and Jennie Shaw Flowers as students at the University of Alabama, including commencement programs, SGA and WSGA ribbons, Triangle ribbon, library card, and invitation to a dance

Dates: 1943-1946

Edith Floyd Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2768
Abstract

This collection contains one letter from Edith Floyd to Eloise Jackson, possibly her sister. The letter concerns Charles Floyd, Edith's husband, who is missing following the fall of the Philippines in 1942.

Dates: 1942 May 13

The Forgotten United Textile Workers of America Strike: Labor Revolt in Alabama, 1934

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4199
Abstract

Unpublished, bound manuscript about the nationwide United Textile Workers of America strike in 1934.

Dates: 2016

Former Prisoners of War Benefits Act of 1981

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3458
Abstract

Framed copy of the Former Prisoners of War Benefits Act of 1981, inscribed to Jeremiah Denton, Senator from Alabama who had been a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese for seven years and seven months during the Vietnam War

Dates: 1981 January 5

Alexander Brevard Forney diploma

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3641
Abstract

1840 University of Alabama diploma

Dates: 1840

Forrest Hood "Fob" James Speech Text

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0741
Abstract

Handwritten original draft of a speech written enroute to Tuscaloosa and delivered by James on the occasion of the University of Alabama's 150th anniversary celebration.

Dates: 1981-04-12

William George Forsyth collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3697
Abstract

Forsyth's United States Army Air Corps World War II era dress uniform and an article about his dog.

Dates: circa 1941

Fort Dix Military Base Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-008
Abstract

Thirteen color prints of the Fort Dix Military Base in New Jersey.

Dates: 1960 - 1961

Fort McClellan Internment Camp Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-002
Abstract

This collection consists of one photographic album containing 129 silver gelatin prints portraying life at Fort McClellan, Alabama—one of four major prisoner of war camps in the state—in June 1943. Private Charles W. Christopher of the Military Police Escort Guard, a branch of the United States Army, collected and arranged the images into the album.

Dates: 1943

"Origin of Fort Toulouse" essay

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0528
Abstract

An essay on the history of Fort Toulouse, constructed in 1717 near Wetumpka, Alabama

Dates: after 1900

Forty-fifth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, Worship Bulletins and other Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4060
Abstract

Archive of programs for a variety of programs related to the 45th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, from 1949 to 1979

Dates: 1949-1978

Virginia Oden Foscue Alabama place-name essay collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0529
Abstract

Twenty-four essays (including one doctoral dissertation and three master’s theses) on Alabama place-names written by students of Virginia O. Foscue, who was a Professor of English at the University of Alabama from 1963 to 1993.

Dates: 1959-1984

Ann and Robert Selvidge Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0531
Abstract Primarily receipts and statements but the collection also includes Robert S. Foster’s will and a deed for 1,274 acres of land from the heirs of Robert S. Foster to Edmond L. Prince in 1859 for the sum of $19,110.00. Most of the statements are for the freight, wharfage, drayage, weighing and storage of cotton shipped by steamboats, and are listed for either Mrs. Ann Foster or the Estate of Robert S. Foster. Other receipts are for the purchase of clothing, books and magazine...
Dates: 1833-1859

Edwin Hardy Foster papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0532
Abstract Letters written by and to Foster between 1907 and 1938, as well as some miscellaneous correspondence written by Foster’s family members and members of the United States House of Representatives concerning his application to the Consular Services. There is also a small collection of letters written in German; Foster’s report cards from Male High School (1875-1881) and his first semester grades from The University of Alabama in 1882; reports cards for his brothers, Sumner B., Thomas J., Henry...
Dates: 1872-1938

Henry B. Foster deed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0534
Abstract

Warranty deed for property in Alabama given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Foster to Mrs. Sallie H. Hester

Dates: 1901 February 28

James Collier Foster documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4205
Abstract

Five documents relating to James Collier Foster

Dates: 1842-1865

Foster Mark Kirksey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0827
Abstract

An extensive collection of business and personal papers and correspondence of this Greene County, Alabama planter, commission merchant, sheriff, and Confederate commissary agent, and his extended family.

Dates: 1795 - 1953

Mary M. Foster fire insurance policy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0291
Abstract

A fire insurance policy dated 22 December 1881, taken out by Mary M. Foster of Clayton, Alabama, on her "frame dwelling house part one & half story & part one story, & dining room & kitchen attached, occupied by her. . . . "

Dates: 1881 December 22

President Richard C. Foster Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-008
Abstract

This record group contains the presidential records of Dr. Richard C. Foster, University of Alabama president from 1937 to 1941.

Dates: 1923-1948

Richard Clarke Foster scrapbooks and papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0537
Abstract

Scrapbook and folder containing newspaper and magazine articles as well as tributes to Foster, who died four years after becoming president of the University of Alabama.

Dates: circa 1941

William Lovelace Foster letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0538
Abstract

Typescript copies of a lengthy and detailed letter from Foster during the siege of Vicksburg, to his wife, begun before communications were cut off and continued at intervals throughout the siege (June 1863) until the city's surrender to Union forces on 4 July 1863.

Dates: 1863 June 20

Four Minute Men, Women's Division, Birmingham, Alabama, scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0539
Abstract

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and other materials about this organization, whose members gave speeches in support of World War I.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Fourth Alabama Regiment Newspaper Article Transcriptions

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1189
Abstract

Typewritten transcriptions of articles about the 4th Alabama Regiment. Original articles were in unnamed Huntsville, Alabama, newspapers

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Ray Benson Fowler UA ROTC Uniform

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4271
Abstract

Pants, jacket, garrison cap, and ties of the University of Alabama ROTC uniform

Dates: 1935-1945

Frances Glisson World War II Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-008
Abstract

Two photographs of Company D, 167th Infantry Regiment, Thirty-first Division at Camp Blanding, Florida, on April 24, 1941.

Dates: 1941

Francis Bugbee papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Abstract

Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.

Dates: 1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820

Francis Johnson Keene Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0798
Abstract

Ledger sheets of accounts recording the sale of lumber, flour, corn, and other commodities. The collection also contains poems written by and arithmetic exercises done by Frances Johnson Keene.

Dates: 1843 - 1855

Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0045
Abstract

Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings

Dates: 1866-1889

Francis S. Lyon papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2051
Abstract

A letter written by Francis S. Lyon, dated March 3, 1837, to M. Dickerson, Secretary of the United States Navy, and an 1858 bill of sale with Lyon's signature as witness.

Dates: 1837-1858

Francis Scott Key Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0812
Abstract

A letter dated 4 February 1834, to Alabama Governor John Gayle, thanking him for a nice visit to Tuscaloosa, probably during Key's mission to resolve a dispute between the U.S. government and Alabama over the dispostion of lands taken from the Creek Indians. Key's letter also discusses congressional debates on the Bank of the United States.

Dates: 1834-02-04

Francois Ludger Diard poetry notebook and Mobile scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0025
Abstract

Notebook of this Mobile, Alabama, native's poetry and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters relating to his work.

Dates: 1917-1929

Frank E. Nevins Civil War Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4380

Frank Everard Ardrey, Jr. Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-022
Abstract

This collection consists chiefly of photographs relating to the railroads, trolleys, and railroad stations throughout Alabama.

Dates: 1912 - 1974

Frank Jones Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-213
Abstract

This collection consists of eight black and white photographs of Shelby Iron Company, Shelby, Alabama, also photographs of the workers, a store, and a hotel.

Dates: 1900 - 1909

Frank Ragan King Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0818
Abstract

Two letters to King, one from Burwell Boykin Lewis, the other from Richard C. Jones.

Dates: 1854 - 1859

Frank Walter letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1522
Abstract

A letter dated 5 April 1935, to James A. Anderson regarding the raid on Tuscaloosa, Alabama by Union Army forces under the command of General John Croxton in April 1865. The author, at the time seven years old, witnessed the incident.

Dates: 1935 April 5

Will Franke paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0540
Abstract

A paper titled "Jefferson County 1850," written by this Birmingham, Alabama, native at the request of the Birmingham Historical Society and includes a detailed listing of the county's merchants and political leaders circa 1850.

Dates: 1950

Franklin Collier Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-033
Abstract

This collection consists of 176 photographs depicting road construction in Alabama.

Dates: 1940 - 1959

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United Daughters of the Confederacy 5
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Kappa Alpha Order 3
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