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Trip through the Deep South Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2020-001
Abstract

The collection includes one photographic album documenting a trip through the Deep South. The album includes eighty black-and-white silver gelatin photographs from a trip through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas in 1935 and 1936. Of particular interest are approximately twenty images depicting African Americans in the rural South.

Dates: 1935 - 1936

Tuscaloosa Cotton Gin and Sawmill Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-026
Abstract

Photographs of Tuscaloosa cotton gin and sawmill, as well as African-American women carrying baskets on their heads.

Dates: 1938

Tuskegee Airmen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1446
Abstract

Photocopied articles, clippings, press releases, programs, membership rosters, and memoirs relating to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of men who participated in the first pilot training program for African-Americans during World War II.

Dates: 1983 - 1989

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute traveling program advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2110
Abstract

An advertisement for the traveling program, "Negro Education in Black Belt of the South," featuring the Tuskegee Quintette.

Dates: circa 1900

Ulysses S. Grant to Edward O. C. Ord Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4779
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter signed by General Ulysses S. Grant, written in the form of a telegram to Major General Edward O. C. Ord. The document is dated March 19, 1865, and sent from City Point, Virginia, during the final weeks of the American Civil War. In the message, Grant discusses the arrival of two to three thousand African American individuals accompanying General Philip H. Sheridan and issues orders regarding their transfer to Fort Monroe in Virigina for further processing...
Dates: 1965 March 19

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents

 Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Abstract

Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.

Dates: 1848-1941

University of Alabama Reel to Reel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-038
Abstract Reel to Reels of events on the University of Alabama campus, such as: Alumni recordings; Board of Trustees; Bear Bryant Show; Senator Jim Allen; Congressman Hale Boggs; Governor John Love; Leftenant Governor Jere Beasley; Leftenant Governor Albert Brewer; Winton Blount; Hilaritas 1971 - 1974; 1960s Honors Days; Interview with Vivian Malone, Robert Kennedy's visit to University of Alabama; Jane Fonda's visit to University of Alabama; interview with Yitzak Rabin; Maintenance strike; Capstone...
Dates: 1960 - 1979

Victor Hugo Friedman Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-020
Abstract

Collection consists of one photo album with ninety-nine photographs depicting Victor Hugo Friedman, a native of Tuscaloosa and local philanthropist, and his friends.

Dates: 1890 - 1899

Virginia J. Hanson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0018
Abstract

Contains a memory book documenting the senior year of Virginia J. Hanson, a 1912 graduate of Birmingham High School. Also contains research notes, correspondence and manuscripts related to Hanson's thesis, "Alabama in Legend and Lore."

Dates: 1912-1937

Wade Hall Collection of African American Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4274
Abstract

Materials created by or about African Americans, collected by Wade Hall

Dates: 1800 - 1999

Wade Hall Collection of Korean War Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-003
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from urban, everyday life in South Korea through the eyes of American soldiers during or after the Korean War. Some photographs depict American soldiers.

Dates: 1951 - 1953

Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4250
Abstract

The Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States contains receipts, correspondence, and other materials that document the presence of enslaved African Americans in the US South.

Dates: 1796-2005

Wade Hall Entertainment Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-030
Abstract

This collection contains two hundred and thirty eight photographs depicting people from different forms of entertainment: music, radio, television, and film.

Dates: 1900 - 1999

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-025
Abstract

This collection consists of sixteen black and white photographs depicting various scenes from Jacksonville, Florida.

Dates: 1920 - 1929

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-036
Abstract

This collection consists of one hundred and eighty black and white photographs depicting unidentified people from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.

Dates: 1900 - 1910; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1909

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.013
Identifier: 2009-054
Abstract

Collection consists of thirty-eight portraits of mainly African Americans.

Dates: 1870 - 1890

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.035
Identifier: 2009-176
Abstract

This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people in Winchester, Kentucky.

Dates: 1896

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.017
Identifier: 2009-076
Abstract

This collection consists of five photographs depicting African American's picking cotton in Mississippi.

Dates: 1941

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.016
Identifier: 2009-065
Abstract

Three images of African American children.

Dates: 1970

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.020
Identifier: 2009-096
Abstract

This collection of 155 photographs of unidentified people, and various scenes of New Zealand and United States, navy ship and sailors, people fishing, and other activities.

Dates: 1890 - 1959

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract

This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.

Dates: 1909 - 1910

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.014
Identifier: 2009-055
Abstract

Seventy-nine images of mainly African Americans from late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

Dates: 1870 - 1950

Wade Hall Vietnam War Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-184
Abstract

This collection consists of three photographs of Vietnam War.

Dates: 1959 - 1975

Wade Hall World War Il Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-189
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting scenes from World War II, portraits of the soldiers, and scenes with their families.

Dates: 1939 - 1960

Dinah Washington Stamp and Event Program

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2775
Abstract

This collection consists of a stamp and program commemorating the issuing of a Dinah Washington stamp.

Dates: 1993 June 16

What the South Means to the Nation Report

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4735
Scope and Contents

A Communist Party report on the South, which describes its natural resources, the poverty and exploitation of its farmers, sharecroppers and tenants, and the root if its "backwardness": the "national oppression of the Negro people in the Black Belt." The report concludes with the Communist Party's commitment to fighting white chauvinism and in uniting mass organizations in the struggle against the oppression of African Americans.

Dates: 1949

White Man Or Mulatto?: Beyond Human Belief Pamphlet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4403
Scope and Contents

One pamphlet containing speeches from The Clansman andThe Leopard's Spots, which were two Thomas Dixon Jr. novels popularized by Southern segregationists. Dixon's raisonneurs expound on the "inability of Blacks to rise above primitiveness" and their increasing "threat" to White civilization following their emancipation.

Dates: 1956

White Supremacy Now and Forever Broadside by E.C. Barnard

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4754
Scope and Contents This broadside contains excerpts from a 1957 speech by E.C. Barnard, a Mobile City Commission candidate and a leader in the local Ku Klux Klan. The document reflects the segregationist rhetoric of the period and serves as a historical artifact of the mid-twentieth-century struggle for civil rights in the American South.The 1957 local election in Mobile was a pivotal moment, with Joseph Langan, a moderate with progressive views on race, running against Barnard. The election also...
Dates: 1957

Wilhelmina Simpson Robinson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1203
Abstract

This collection contains materials relating to Simpson's participation in the Rural Project, a 1930s "program of supervised student teaching in selected crowded rural Negro schools of Montgomery County [Alabama]." It includes photographs of Tankersley, Peoples Village, Ramer, Little Zion, Jericho, and Pine Grove schools, and information about students' activities.

Dates: 1937 - 1938

William B. Shirdan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1266
Abstract

Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dates: 1944 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1945

Williams Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4278
Abstract

Papers related to the Williams family of Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest are two notebooks belonging to Barabara Adeline Williams, one of which she kept while in nursing school and the other while she was attaining her high school diploma.

Dates: 1891 - 1999

World War II Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4091
Abstract

Photograph album containing mainly 2.5" x 2.5" snapshots of an unidentified African American soldier during the 1940s

Dates: between 1941 and 1950

Frances Virginia McLin Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4191
Abstract

Papers of a Sheffield, Alabama, elementary school teacher, her family, and allied families.

Dates: 1879-1974

Wylheme H. Ragland Collection of Funeral Bulletins

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3763
Abstract

Funeral and memorial service worship bulletins primarily featuring African Americans from northern Alabama area.

Dates: 1930s-2016

Wylheme H. Ragland Collection of Genealogical Research

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4186
Abstract

Genealogical research material on several successful families of North Alabama in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dates: Unknown

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