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A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0006
Abstract

Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.

Dates: 1861-1869

Alabama hotels and resorts of the past collection

 Collection
Identifier: W-0041
Abstract

Letters, receipts, and transcribed copies of newspaper articles pertaining to notable Alabama hotels, including the Exchange Hotel (Montgomery), the Morris Hotel (Birmingham), the Battle House (Mobile), the DeKalb Hotel (Fort Payne), Fruithurst Inn (Fruithurst), the Alabama Inn (Livingston), Mansion House (Mobile), the Green Bottom Inn (Huntsville), and the Point Clear Hotel (Point Clear).

Dates: 1830-1836

Brewster and Conley sales records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Abstract

Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1838 - 1846

C. I. B. DeLage letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Abstract

A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865

C. S. Phillips letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Abstract

Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.

Dates: 1865-04-18

Cowbellion de Rakin Society initiation ceremony script

 Collection
Identifier: W-0035
Abstract

Handwritten script outlining an 1847 initiation ceremony conducted by Mobile, Alabama's earliest mystic society, the Cowbellian de Rakin Society.

Dates: 1847

Daniel Geary scrapbook on the history of the Mobile Volunteer Fire Companies

 Collection
Identifier: W-0024
Abstract

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, illustrations, and handwritten notes related to the history of volunteer firefighter companies in Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Daniel Geary.

Dates: 1830-1924

Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0039
Abstract

Financial notebook includes lists of prices and shipping rates for items such as cotton, sugar, coffee and corn, as well as lists of currency exchange rates, United States cotton production rates, and Mobile cotton brokers.

Dates: 1849-1861

Gaillard and Hurtel families papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Abstract

Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.

Dates: 1838-1885

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. 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

John Forbes and Company land records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0074
Abstract

Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memoranda and notes concerning the partners of this mercantile firm.

Dates: 1799 - 1849

Joseph Murrell letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Abstract

Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

Dates: 1861

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0050
Abstract

Scrapbook of newspaper articles from Confederate newspapers (probably in Mobile, Alabama) documenting Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Lexington, and the Battle of Leesburg.

Dates: 1861-1862

Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Abstract

Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.

Dates: 1821-1838

Peter Brannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

Dates: 1900-1966

Cameron McRae Plummer book list

 Collection
Identifier: W-0087
Abstract

Contains a list of books compiled by Haunted House Book Shop owner Cameron McRae Plummer.

Dates: 1950-1961

Robert H. Smith legal notebook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0016
Abstract

Handwritten definitions and summaries of legal cases tried between 1869 and 1877, relating primarily to railroad interests and personal property law.

Dates: circa 1870

Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Abstract

Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1897

"Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript

 Collection
Identifier: W-0151
Abstract

Typescript copy of B. L. Roberson's unpublished "Valor on the Eastern Shore."

Dates: 1965

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

 Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Abstract

Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace

Dates: 1947 - 1948

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Brannon, Peter A. (Peter Alexander) 2
Alabama Inn (Livingston, Ala.) 1
Bass, Allen G. 1
Bass, Elizabeth 1
Bass, Mattie 1
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Bass, Sterling, Sr. 1
Battle House Hotel (Mobile, Ala.) 1
Bowers, William R. 1
Brannon, Carolyn E. 1
Brannon, Frances Frazier 1
Brannon, George Thomas 1
Brannon, John M. 1
Brannon, Thomas A. (Thomas Aloysius) 1
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell) 1
Brewster and Conley 1
Camp O'Neal 1
DeKalb Hotel (Fort Payne, Ala.) 1
DeLage, C. I. B. 1
Exchange Hotel (Montgomery, Ala.) 1
Forbes, John 1
Forbes, Thomas 1
Frascati Park (Mobile, Ala.) 1
Fruithurst Inn (Fruithurst, Ala.) 1
Gaillard, Catherine 1
Gaillard, Edmund 1
Gaillard, Henrietta Porcher 1
Gaillard, John 1
Gaillard, Marianne Gendron Palmer 1
Gaillard, Martha Rebecca 1
Gaillard, Thomas 1
Geary, Daniel 1
Green Bottom Inn (Huntsville, Ala.) 1
Green, John M. 1
Greene, Peter Alexander 1
Hoyt, William Henry 1
Hurtel, Alphonse John 1
Hurtel, Gordon Noel 1
Hurtel, Odaline Leclaire 1
Innerarity, James 1
Innerarity, John 1
John Forbes and Company 1
Lanier, Clifford Anderson 1
Luciani, Pasqual 1
Mansion House (Mobile, Ala.) 1
Marshall, Wallace 1
Masendorff, Ferdinand 1
Mobile Volunteer Fire Dept. (Mobile, Ala.) 1
Montgomery Glass Collectors 1
Montgomery Hotel Company 1
Morris Hotel (Birmingham, Ala.) 1
Murrell, Joseph E. 1
Ney, Michel, duc d'Elchingen 1
Ney, Peter Stuart 1
Nott, Josiah Clark 1
Panton, Leslie and Company 1
Panton, William 1
Perry, George A. 1
Perry, Hartwell Bass 1
Perry, Joseph 1
Perry, Lizzie 1
Perry, Patrick H. 1
Phillips, C. S. 1
Plummer, Cameron McRae 1
Point Clear Hotel (Point Clear, Ala.) 1
Raiford, J. C. 1
Roberson, B. L. 1
Scott, Charles R. 1
Scott, Thomas J. 1
Silsby, Enoch 1
Smith, Robert H. 1
Smoot, J. Edward 1
Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company 1
Stoddard, Lavinia Stone 1
Stoddard, William 1
Summers, E.A. 1
Thomas J. Scott and Sons 1
Tyler, C. S. 1
Willoughby, A. L. 1
Wiswall, J. T. 1
Zelinski, J. 1
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