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Daniel Geary scrapbook on the history of the Mobile Volunteer Fire Companies
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, illustrations, and handwritten notes related to the history of volunteer firefighter companies in Mobile, Alabama, compiled by Daniel Geary.
Dauphin Island, Alabama, public development papers
Papers and plat maps of real estate developments in Dauphin Island, Alabama, in 1953, 1958, and 1961.
Edward R. Norville diary
Diary of Edward R. Norville, a Mobile, Alabama, river pilot.
Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Papers documenting the history of Co. F of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including Company demographics and rosters, obituaries, and hand-drawn maps of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863.
Ephraim Madison Henry papers
Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate
Ethel Armes letters
Letter to Robert Jemison Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama, about uncredited copying of material from her book, The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama, and a letter to her brother about a promotion.
Ferdinand Masendorff financial notebook
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.
Francis L. Constantine ledger and letter book
Journal includes ledger entries, transcriptions of letters, and recipes, as well as a few letters and newspaper clippings
Francois Ludger Diard poetry notebook and Mobile scrapbook
Notebook of this Mobile, Alabama, native's poetry and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters relating to his work.
Gaillard and Hurtel families papers
Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.
Garner family letters
Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.
George H. Thompson plantation records
Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.
George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers
Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.
George Platt Waller papers
Contains photographs, correspondence, and typescript speeches written by diplomat George Platt Waller. Also contains a small journal and receipts related to his father's medical practice.
George Woodard and Gene Smith letters
Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.
James Lockhart Goodloe letterbook
Contains one letterbook, which includes the autobiography of James Lockhart Goodloe, a Tennessee lawyer.
Goodloe W. Malone account book
Ledger documenting the sale of materials such as molasses, coffee, and sugar, as well as the sale of slaves.
Collection of Alabama governors materials
Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.
Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter
Contains copies of four speeches written by Talladega educator Joseph B. Graham and presented to various civic and social clubs; also contains one letter signed by Selma politician Edmund Pettus
Harriet Anna Kennedy papers
Notebook of poems written by Harriet Anna Kennedy between 1863-1864. A letter and a small collection of later poems written by Kennedy and members of her extended family are also included.
"Harwell G. Davis: Alabama Statesman and Baptist Leader": typescript
Typescript of Susan Hunt Ingram Ray's master's thesis on Harwell G. Davis.
Townsend Heaton letters
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Henry DeBardeleben business records
Official meeting minutes, stockholder letters, stock certificates, and legal documents produced by the DeBardeleben Coal Corporation, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company.
Henry Tutwiler papers
Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.
"The Home of the Brownings"
Handwritten notes Octavia Walton Le Vert used during her lecture, "Home of the Brownings," which described her 1855 visit to the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Howard Weeden papers
Three composition books filled with collections of quotations and illustrations and one book of devotions.
J. A. Montgomery business records
Correspondence, time book, and ledger of Birmingham, Alabama, industrialist J. A. Montgomery.
J. O. Campbell diary
Diary of J. O. Campbell, a young man employed as a stenographer and typist in Montgomery, Alabama
J. T. Wiswall papers
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.
J. W. Worthington report on furnace properties
One report notebook containing correspondence, maps, and reports on coal fields and iron furnaces located in Alabama and Tennessee.
J. Zelinski Camp O'Neal sketchbook
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.
Jack D. L. Holmes papers
Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.
James Hall and Myra Hall papers
Two copies of Hall's "The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Alabama Prior to 1826" and a notebook detailing his sermons and revival participation from September 1886 through May 1887; a large portion of the notebook contains Myra Hall's writings
James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers
Notebook containing a roster and brief history of Company I of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a regiment formed by students enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University).
James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers
Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."
Jennie C. Lee Papers
Contains photographs, letters, programs, and other materials created and collected by Lee, who was director of the Tuskegee Choir for twenty-five years (1903-1928).
John Forbes and Company land records
Three journals recording land sales and transfers in southern Alabama, as well as memoranda and notes concerning the partners of this mercantile firm.
John Mason Dill Archive: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Photographic Collection
This collection consists of photographs, drawings and graphic materials depicting John Mason Dill and his coworkers at the end of his working career as one of the draftsman at the engineering office at the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company in Birmingham and Fairfield, Alabama.
John Temple Graves II papers
Manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings written by and related to Birmingham newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II.
John Tyler Morgan letter
An undated letter from Senator John Tyler Morgan to Alabama governor Joseph F. Johnston regarding the transfer of Major Barnard Goldsmith West from the Birmingham state troops to the staff of General Wheeler.
John Witherspoon DuBose papers
Contains newspaper serialization of John Witherspoon DuBose's Chronicles of the Canebreak, as well as photographs, correspondence, biographical sketches and newspaper clippings related to this Alabama historian.
Joseph Murrell letterbook
Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.
Joseph Zebulon Hearst letters
Typescript transcriptions of twenty-one letters written by Confederate soldier Joseph Zebulon Hearst between May 1862 and December 1864.
Lavinia Hetherling Leinau commonplace book
Tennessee resident Lavinia Heatherling Leinau's commonplace book, containing poetry and notes from friends
Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman
Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman of Athens, Alabama, from her husband and sisters between 1834 and 1843.
Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums
This collection consists of two personal albums with photographs of teachers, administrators, and students at the Lincoln Normal School, an early African-American school in Marion, Alabama. The albums include formal group portraits, informal photographs from everyday life, and images of the school's surroundings.
Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama
Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.
"Mammy stories"
Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."
Marie Brink memory book, Sidney Lanier High School, 1922
Memory book of high school senior Marie Brink, documenting her experiences at Sidney Lanier High school in 1922
Mary C. Kelly scrapbook
Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.