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I. A. King letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0819
Abstract

A letter dated 21 March 1862, from the Marine Hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his brother. It requests money for tobacco and other necessaries. Printed on patriotic stationery; the last page has the song "Run , Yank, or Die," composed by T.W. Crowson of the Alabama Hickories, printed on it.

Dates: 1862 March 21

I. A. Winter's Canoe Trip Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-002
Abstract

This collection consists of one photographic album with forty-three images recording the canoe trip through Alabama and Tennessee, by I. A. Winter in 1914.

Dates: 1914

"I Love Tuscaloosa" bumper stickers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3721
Abstract

Bumper stickers proclaiming I [heart icon] Tuscaloosa

Dates: after 1977

Ian Brown Cemeteries Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3155
Abstract

Papers submitted by students for credit in the Blount Program's seminar "Marking Graves: Self and Society in Death" and ANT 444/544 "Anthropology and Cemeteries" at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The papers consider how individuals and society are reflected in burial practices and the differences between Anglo-American and African-American graveyards. The papers may examine burial patterns, customs, ornamentation, or simply be lists of interments.

Dates: 2001 - 2005

"In Honor of the Cadets who Loyally and Courageously defended Tuscaloosa during Croxton's raid April 4th, 1865, and all those University Students who served" Print

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4193
Abstract

Framed print listing the names of the University of Alabama Cadets who were part of the defense of Tuscaloosa in 1865.

Dates: unknown

Indigenous Census in 1670 Colombia Decree

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4330
Scope and Contents

This broadside from Boyacá, New Granada, (present day Colombia) describes a 1670 follow up visit concerning an Indigenous man living with his mother originally reported in a census conducted thirty- four years prior. The broadside is signed by the magistrate Rodrigo Zapata who certified the details. Written in Spanish.

Dates: 1670-06-25

Inge Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0726
Abstract

A copy of the will of Richard Inge, Sr., 1883; a copy of a letter from W.S. Wyman to a Mr. Inge, 1906, regarding Inge family genealogy; and correspondence between the University of Alabama library and Mrs. Z. M. P. Inge regarding the family's papers.

Dates: 1833 - 1968

George B. Inge papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0728
Abstract

Research material for the book, The Herndon and Inge Families: Genealogical, Historical, Biographical.

Dates: 1862 - 1975

Alexander Ingram papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2406
Abstract

Papers and documents about the Panama Canal treaties and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

Dates: 1965-1987

Inquirer collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0730
Abstract

This collection contains a photocopy of two letters regarding the adoption of a baby born out of wedlock in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1864

Integration

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-030
Abstract

Material related to the 1963 integration of The University of Alabama by Vivian Malone and James Hood.

Dates: 1963

Ira Stark Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-023
Abstract

Sixteen black and white photographs of University of Alabama scenes, including students, football parade, ROTC functions and Governor Bibb Graves. Photographs were probably taken by Ira Stark, a University of Alabama student and graduate of 1940.

Dates: 1930 - 1947

Isaac D. Landis Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4344
Scope and Contents The Isaac D. Landis collection contains 31 items including casualty reports, rosters, equipment return forms and other military documentation concerning the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry. It also has a farewell address given on July 26, 1865, two copies of a portrait of Landis taken in 1865, and some other papers. Created between November 1864 and September 1865, this collection captures information about the final years of the United States Civil War in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and...
Dates: 1864-11-14 - 1865-09-25

Letter from Isabel to Minnie

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3200
Abstract

One letter from Isabel to her sister Minnie in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She discussed her new job at the post office and life at her boarding house.

Dates: 1915 April 29

Isaiah Garrett Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4231
Abstract

A business ledger belonging to Isaiah Garrett (1812-1874)--a lawyer, politician, and plantation owner in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. The ledger contains entries on 326 pages, in which both Mr. Garrett’s legal practice and his plantation are covered.

Dates: 1838 - 1861

Italian Agricultural Community, Lambert, Alabama, Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0734
Abstract

Biographical sketches of the Italian settlers of Lambert, Mobile County, Alabama, a photocopy of Sadie Hattenstein's obituary, and a compilation of information on Italians in Alabama from 1890 to 1920.

Dates: 1907 - 1983

J. A. Montgomery business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0068
Abstract

Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.

Dates: 1889 - 1898

J. Alfred Swatkins Sketchbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3911
Abstract

Four bound sketchbooks filled with drawings by Swatkins, a World War I era permit book, issued in England to John Alfred Swatkins, and a letter from noted British author Marie Corelli in Stratford-on-Avon, to Swatkins, complimenting his work and inquiring if it was ever used in the London press or by publishers.

Dates: 1912-1947

J. B. D. Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4119
Abstract

Journal of the daily activities of a machinist on board the Gulf Oil Tanker Gulfmaid, going into a great deal of detail including detailed drawings of some of the parts he makes or repairs.

Dates: 1929-1930

J. C. Tyson III Stamp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1455
Abstract

This collection consists chiefly of three stamp albums plus first issue commemorative envelopes. It also contains some correspondence.

Dates: 1938 - 1977

J. E. Mulkin Collection of African American Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-027
Abstract

This collection consists of 151 photographs and glass plate negatives of African Americans.

Dates: 1910 - 1920

J. G. Lewis Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0856
Abstract

Ledger containing accounts relating to the settlement of Lewis' estate, including accounts of customers at his Forkland, Alabama store. Previously misidentified as Thornhill Commissary ledger.

Dates: 1891 - 1898

J. H. Lakin Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-009
Abstract

This collection consists of eleven cartes de visite, taken by J. H. Lakin, Montgomery photographer.

Dates: 1860 - 1880

J. J. Magee diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3764
Abstract

Civil War diary of Captain J. J. Magee of Company D, Eighth Alabama Infantry.

Dates: 1861

J. K. Wright Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1584
Abstract

A letter dated 26 January 1865, to a friend, B. F. Brown, in Nashville, written by a soldier in the 4th Alabama Cavalry while in prison hospital in Delaware. Discusses taking the loyalty oath to end his imprisonment.

Dates: 1865-01-26

J. O. Campbell diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0139
Abstract

Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama

Dates: 1895-01 - 1895-05

J. P. McQueen Letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0969
Abstract

A letterbook containing copies of the correspondence of attorney J. P. McQueen to legal clients and others.

Dates: 1887 - 1888

J. R. John Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0756
Abstract

Typescript copies of 1863 letters, written from Selma to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, concerning John's efforts to stop cadets from leaving the University to fight in the Civil War, and on preparations for the defense of Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1863

J. R. Odom store ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1066
Abstract

Ledger from a small general store in Nauvoo, Walker County, Alabama, showing sales and expenses of this family business, 1920-37. The ledger includes notations for jury duty and union dues.

Dates: 1920-1937

J. Robert Kennedy Autograph Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1835
Abstract

Contains one journal of autographs, belonging to J. Robert Kennedy, a University of Alabama graduate. Some of the autographs belong to those who fought in the Civil War.

Dates: 1859 - 1885

J. T. Broadnax and Company Accounts Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0735
Abstract

A journal recording individual accounts, although it does not detail specific purchases.

Dates: 1867 - 1868

J. T. Wiswall papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0011
Abstract

Two notebooks, containing mathematical equations and scientific essays, as well as the handwritten manuscripts of J. T. Wiswall's works "The African" and "Iliad of the Family," neither of which were ever published.

Dates: circa 1860

J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties

 Collection
Identifier: W-0082
Abstract

One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.

Dates: 1899

J. Zelinski Camp O'Neal sketchbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0038
Abstract

This sketchbook contains nineteen pen and ink drawings that depict training drills, camp life, and social events held at Camp O'Neal, a training base located in Frascati Park in Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1883 June

Jack D. L. Holmes papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0001
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.

Dates: 1963-1988

Jefferson Franklin Jackson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0736
Abstract

This collection contains the letters of correspondence, financial papers, and a Phi Beta Kappa invitation.

Dates: 1847 - 1921

Linda Jackson scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3546
Abstract

Scrapbook of the historical places on the University of Alabama campus

Dates: after 1950

Miss T. Jackson Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4068
Abstract

Primitive diary of a young lady of Gainesville, Alabama.

Dates: circa 1860

Thomas K. Jackson letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3814
Abstract

Letters written during his career in the Confederate Army as well as a letter of amnesty on his behalf from J. Longstreet to Ulysses S. Grant

Dates: 1844-1865

Jacob Faser letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0506
Abstract

Letters written from Mobile, Alabama, where Faser was working as a sword maker, to his wife in Macon, Mississippi, dealing mainly with personal news and information on the prices of available goods.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Jacob Frederic Goossen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0579
Abstract

Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1940-1995

James A. Goble diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Abstract

Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1862-1863

James A. Henderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0662
Abstract

Writings of James A. Henderson of the Twelveth Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment while stationed at Centre, Alabama, in December 1865.

Dates: 1865-12-1 - 1865-12-4

James A. Seddon Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1240
Abstract

A letter dated 16 March 1864 to General Joel Briggs, Adjutant and Inspector General of Alabama, declining to detail George Breitenbach as shoemaker for the cadets of the University of Alabama.

Dates: 1864-03-16

James Abercrombie Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2005
Abstract

Letter of recommendation written on March 8, 1849 by James Abercrombie, then serving as Senator in the Alabama Senate, to the Honorable William B Preston, Secretary of the Navy under President Zachary Taylor.

Dates: 1849-10-08

James Austin Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Abstract

A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.

Dates: 1898-1941

James Bowron papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0193
Abstract

A substantial collection of papers and materials relating to James Bowron, one of the nineteenth century iron and mining pioneers in the Deep South. It includes Bowron's 1632-page, unpublished autobiography, as well as his daily journals, letters, and pictures.

Dates: 1861-1928

James Boykin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract

Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.

Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870

James Chamberlin letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0294
Abstract

Letters written to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition

Dates: 1861-1898; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863

James D. Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1561
Abstract

A collection of publications, pamphlets, reports and legal papers dealing with environmentalists' opposition to the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers during the 1970s. It includes newspaper and magazine articles, Corps of Engineers reports, records of lawsuits filed, National Wildlife Federation publications, various environmental groups' newsletters, and etc.

Dates: 1969 - 1974

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United Daughters of the Confederacy 5
University of Alabama. "Million Dollar Band" 5
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Geological Survey of Alabama 3
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Kappa Alpha Order 3
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