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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

Dauphin Island, Alabama, public development papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0148
Abstract

Papers and plat maps of real estate developments in Dauphin Island, Alabama, in 1953, 1958, and 1961.

Dates: 1953 - 1961

Edward R. Norville diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0105
Abstract

Diary of Edward R. Norville, a Mobile, Alabama, river pilot.

Dates: 1873 - 1891

Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

 Collection
Identifier: W-0157
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1883 - 1918

Ephraim Madison Henry papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0114
Abstract

Correspondence, concert programs, and other documents from this Tuskegee Institute graduate

Dates: 1930 - 1947

Ethel Armes letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0146
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1921 - 1944

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

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

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

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

Garner family letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0030
Abstract

Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.

Dates: 1832-1886

George H. Thompson plantation records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0073
Abstract

Ledger documenting the expenses of Russell County, Alabama, planter George H. Thompson.

Dates: 1855 - 1874

George O. Baker and Joseph M. Baker papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0066
Abstract

Correspondence, ledgers, and other papers of Selma, Alabama, businessmen, George O. Baker, his son, Joseph M. Baker, and their various companies and businesses.

Dates: 1886 - 1898

George Platt Waller papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0085
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1894 - 1895; 1952 - 1961

George Woodard and Gene Smith letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0112
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

James Lockhart Goodloe letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0089
Abstract

Contains one letterbook, which includes the autobiography of James Lockhart Goodloe, a Tennessee lawyer.

Dates: 1876

Goodloe W. Malone account book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0020
Abstract

Ledger documenting the sale of materials such as molasses, coffee, and sugar, as well as the sale of slaves.

Dates: 1834-1839

Collection of Alabama governors materials

 Collection
Identifier: W-0054
Abstract

Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.

Dates: 1820-1970

Joseph B. Graham speeches and letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0095
Abstract

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

Dates: 1884-1902

Harriet Anna Kennedy papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0117
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1863 - 1903

"Harwell G. Davis: Alabama Statesman and Baptist Leader": typescript

 Collection
Identifier: W-0004
Abstract

Typescript of Susan Hunt Ingram Ray's master's thesis on Harwell G. Davis.

Dates: 1996

Townsend Heaton letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Abstract

Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War

Dates: 1861-1864

Henry DeBardeleben business records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0052
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1886 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1886 - 1905

Henry Tutwiler papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0081
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

"The Home of the Brownings"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0092
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1870

Howard Weeden papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0008
Abstract

Three composition books filled with collections of quotations and illustrations and one book of devotions.

Dates: between 1735 and 1905

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. 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. 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

James Hall and Myra Hall papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0023
Abstract

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

Dates: 1886-1904

James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0111
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1860

James Smith U.S. Army discharge papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0145
Abstract

Military discharge forms for James Smith, a member of the United States Army's Tenth Cavalry Regiment, also known as "Buffalo Soldiers."

Dates: 1872-04 - 1872-05

Jennie C. Lee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0113
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1891 - 1938

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

John Mason Dill Archive: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WP-006
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1911 - 1951

John Temple Graves II papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0109
Abstract

Manuscripts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings written by and related to Birmingham newspaper columnist John Temple Graves II.

Dates: 1910 - 1967

John Tyler Morgan letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0131
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1896 - 1900

John Witherspoon DuBose papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0086
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1893 - 1918

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

Joseph Zebulon Hearst letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0123
Abstract

Typescript transcriptions of twenty-one letters written by Confederate soldier Joseph Zebulon Hearst between May 1862 and December 1864.

Dates: 1931

Lavinia Hetherling Leinau commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: W-0124
Abstract

Tennessee resident Lavinia Heatherling Leinau's commonplace book, containing poetry and notes from friends

Dates: 1831 - 1879; Majority of material found within 1831 - 1836

Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman

 Collection
Identifier: W-0047
Abstract

Letters to Elizabeth J. Coman of Athens, Alabama, from her husband and sisters between 1834 and 1843.

Dates: 1834-1843

Lincoln Normal School Photographic Albums

 Collection
Identifier: WP-2013001
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1909 - 1924

Lola Higginbotham memory book, McAdory High School, McCalla, Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: W-0033
Abstract

Memory book documenting the senior year of Lola Higginbotham, a 1924 graduate of McAdory High School.

Dates: 1924

"Mammy stories"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0026
Abstract

Handwritten manuscript by Birmingham author Julia Neely Finch describing "an old-time Southern Mammy."

Dates: between 1900 and 1920

Marie Brink memory book, Sidney Lanier High School, 1922

 Collection
Identifier: W-0017
Abstract

Memory book of high school senior Marie Brink, documenting her experiences at Sidney Lanier High school in 1922

Dates: 1922

Mary C. Kelly scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0036
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1855 - 1866

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