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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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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

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 E. Nunn Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1062
Abstract

Diary of this Mooresville, Limestone County, Alabama resident

Dates: 1854 - 1856

James Elisha Folsom, Sr. Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-012
Abstract

Collection consists of sixteen portraits of Governor James Elisha Folsom, Sr.

Dates: 1950 - 1959

James Harry Cowan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-006
Scope and Contents Collection consists of one photographic album with sixty-two photographs of James Harry Cowan, a University of Alabama student from 1915 - 1918. Scenes include University athletes and sporting events, pre-game activities in front of Woods Hall, in Birmingham and Rickwood Park. Also contains newspaper clippings and memorabilia. The collection contains one card printed on one side with The University of Alabama Alma Mater and on the reverse side the song "God Save, Keep, and Hold Our Men," a...
Dates: 1915 - 1918

James Hillhouse Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0673
Abstract

A letter from the minister of the Greensboro Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Alabama, to an unidentified recipient discussing Hillhouse's wishes for the Presbyterians to reform the Catholic Church.

Dates: 1835-04

James Jackson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0737
Abstract

This collection contains accounts of a cotton plantation; records of a farm's cotton crop, including the number of hands employed and the amount picked; and recipes.

Dates: 1814 - 1884

Perry B. James papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0743
Abstract

Collection includes a letter from James, president of Athens College, Athens, Alabama, to William Stanley Hoole, head of the University of Alabama Libraries, about a paper James had written, "The Counties North of the Tennessee River," and a manuscript of the paper.

Dates: 1959

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

James Strother Caller Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0263
Abstract

Letter written by Caller, dated 2 August 1852, from Gosport, Clarke County, Alabama, to Messrs. Jno. A. Winston &c, commission merchants of Mobile, Alabama, asking for a correction on the account of W. McConnell

Dates: 1852-08-02

James Taylor Jones Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2021
Abstract

Four letters written by James Taylor Jones of Demopolis, Alabama, dated from 1877 to 1884, while he was serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives, concerning his biographical entries in the Congressional Directory.

Dates: 1877 - 1884

James Thomas Heflin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0659
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, press releases, biographical notes, campaign literature, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia of this member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senator from Alabama.

Dates: 1895 - 1951

James Thomas Murfee Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1031
Abstract

Letters to L. C. Garland, President of the University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

James W. Horner Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-212
Abstract

This collection consists of one photograph of the University of Alabama Marching Band on the steps of the Amelia Gorgas Library.

Dates: 1943

James William Oakley Jr. Photographs

 Collection — Box: 38034.001
Identifier: 2010-020
Abstract

Photographs taken by James William Oakley Jr. during the week that Autherine Lucy, the first African American student at The University of Alabama, enrolled in February 1956.

Dates: 1956 February

James Woodrow Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1572
Abstract

A letter dated 22 September 1852, from LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama, requesting a subscription to a journal titled the Presbyterian.

Dates: 1852-09-22

Janet Fuller Poll Tax Receipt

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0752
Abstract

Receipt dated 1 February 1963 for poll tax paid by Janet Fuller.

Dates: 1963-02-01

Jasons scrapbook, 1961-1963

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0747
Abstract

This collection contains a scrapbook.

Dates: 1961-1963

Jeanette F. Yackle paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1593
Abstract

A 1980 "Bibliography of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1826-46," “prepared at the request and with the support of Dean Thomas Christopher of the University of Alabama School of Law. It is an attempt to bring together all the primary and secondary material dealing with Tuscaloosa while it was Alabama’s state capital." (p. 2)

Dates: 1980

Jeff Sessions Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1744
Abstract

A letter from Jeff Sessions, US Senator for Alabama, to Earl Hinson, mayor of Union Springs, Alabama, thanking him for securing a copy of Wade hall's Conecuh People, 5 September 2003.

Dates: 2003-09-05

Jefferson Jackson Coleman Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-002
Abstract

This collection consists of fifty-five photographs of the former Director of Alumni Affairs at the University of Alabama. He was closely involved in athletics at the University of Alabama. The photographs show various aspects of his life from 1918 through 1989.

Dates: 1918 - 1989

Jerome T. Fuller Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0546
Abstract

Letter to J. G. Oakley written in 1934 in support of Frank M. Dixon for Governor of Alabama.

Dates: 1934 May 25

Jerry A. Davis, Jr. Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-200
Abstract

This collection consists of eighty-five photographs of Jerry A. Davis, Jr. (UA, MA, 1991), his friends and family, school pictures of Tuscaloosa Academy students, University of Alabama Sigma Chi fraternity parties, and vacation scenes.

Dates: 1979 - 1989

Jerusha Hemphill DIploma

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0660
Abstract

A diploma for having completed the course of study at Tuscaloosa Female Academy, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Dates: 1865

Jesse B. Hearin Paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1265
Abstract

Text of a speech or paper on William Tecumseh Sherman.

Dates: unknown

Jesse Griffin letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Abstract

A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.

Dates: 1813 September 5

Jimmy Lee Sudduth Slides

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2013-013
Abstract

This collection consist of color slides depicting folk artist Jimmy Lee Sudduth at his home, gathering clay, and his art work.

Dates: 1977

Jo Tartt Jr. and Judith Tartt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4303
Abstract Collection consists of a variety of materials related to the life of Jo Cowin Tartt Jr. and his wife, Judith Watkins Tartt. The materials are predominately focused on Mr. Tartt's childhood and various careers throughout his life. Of notable interest are his photographs of the Alabama Black Belt during the 1960s through the early 1980s, which depict life and living conditions in small-town Alabama after the Civil Rights movement. In addition to his photographs, other materials include...
Dates: 1890 - 2019

Joanne H. Smith Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1288
Abstract

A letter dated 11 October 1835, from Boston to Miss Susan C. Farley, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Smith, a former pupil of Farley's, discusses the latter's intention to go to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to teach at the Tuscaloosa Female Institute.

Dates: 1835-10-11

John and Mary Wellborn Cochran Diaries, Letterbook, and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0326
Abstract

Three bound volumes of this Alabama attorney and politician and his wife: John Cochran's diary; Mary Wellborn Cochran's journal; and a miscellany of copies of some of John Cochran's outgoing correspondence, journal entries of his, and copies of some freedman contracts to which he was party. Also includes two unidentified photographs that appear to be from the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1839-1915

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Hoole, William Stanley 4
Jemison, Robert, Jr. 4
Tutwiler, Julia 4
University of Alabama. "Million Dollar Band" 4
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Bryce, Peter 3
Clay, Clement Comer 3
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Geological Survey of Alabama 3
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Rose, Frank Anthony 3
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Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company 3
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United Confederate Veterans 3
United Daughters of the Confederacy 3
University of Alabama. Army ROTC 3
University of Alabama. National Alumni Association 3
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Van de Graaff, Adrian Sebastian 3
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Alabama Central Female College (Tuscaloosa, Ala) 2
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company 2
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame 2
Anderson, James Austin 2
Armes, Edmund 2
Armes, Ethel 2
Arnoldy, Gray Humphries 2
Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company 2
Bagby, Arthur P. (Arthur Pendleton) 2
Banks, Athelyne Celest 2
Bass, Sterling, Sr. 2
Battle, Junius K. 2
Bibb, William Wyatt 2
Birmingham News 2
Bishop/Tanglewood 2
Blackburn, John L. 2
Brandon, William Woodward 2
Brantley, William H. (William Henderson) 2
Bryant, Paul W. 2
Bryce Hospital (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 2
Carmer, Carl 2
Carmichael, Oliver C. (Oliver Cromwell) 2
Clayton, Henry De Lamar 2
Coleman, Jefferson Jackson 2
Collier, H. W. (Henry Watkins) 2
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