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Ku Klux Klan pamphlet

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3892
Abstract

Pamphlet lists the names of residents who "signed the petition sent to Governor [George] Wallace," and the names of the employers of the signers.

Dates: 1963 May 29

Labor relations papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3454
Abstract

Miscellaneous labor relations documents

Dates: 1930s-1960s

John S. Lackey papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1780
Abstract

Five legal documents, dated 1821-67, from or about Lawrence County, Alabama, three of which pertain to John. S. Lackey.

Dates: 1821 - 1867

Lamar McCarty Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-196
Abstract

This collection consists of twelve photographs of homecoming festivities at the University of Alabama, probably taken by Lamar McCarty, University of Alabama Graduate (1938).

Dates: 1937 - 1938

Lamkin Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3901
Abstract

Deed and survey from 1843 for land in North Carolina, correspondence covering family news and daily life, two family Bibles, as well as three books written by family friends

Dates: 1843 - 1990

Private W. N. Landrun papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3467
Abstract

Military charges and specifications against Private W. N. Landrun of the Tenth Alabama Regulars, 1863

Dates: 1863-03-17

Lawrence County, Alabama Tavern License

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0847
Scope and Contents

A license dated 23 September 1835, granted to Alexander M. Brooks, Edward Jones, and M. Seuris to operate a tavern in Lawrence County, Alabama.

Dates: 1835-09-23

William Patrick Lay paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0849
Abstract

Typescript copy of a paper titled, "The Water Ways of Alabama."

Dates: unknown

Lecture notes on John W. Abercrombie

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0002
Abstract

Notes for a class lecture on Abercrombie, president of the University of Alabama. Includes information on the construction of University buildings during his tenure, as well as his conflicts with former acting president and Latin professor William S. Wyman.

Dates: not dated

Letter from an Indiana Soldier Stationed in Mobile, Alabama Just After the End of the Civil War

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4714
Scope and Contents This manuscript letter, dated May 4, 1865, was written by a Union soldier identified only as "Dick" while stationed in Mobile, Alabama, shortly after the end of the Civil War. Addressed to his sister in Indiana, the letter provides a detailed firsthand account of his experiences. Dick describes his arrival in Mobile on May 2, his regiment’s encampment in a pine grove, and his preference for remaining there rather than returning to New Orleans. He also reflects on the abundant provisions and...
Dates: 1865-05-04

Letter from A.T. Goodwyn, Johnson's Island POW, to Mrs. S.D. Oliver

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4884
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter from Albert T. Goodwyn to his sister Elizabeth Goodwyn Oliver, written while he was imprisoned at Johnson's Island in 1864. The letter offers insight into the life and morale of a Confederate officer in captivity and is fairly positive, discussing Goodwyn's relief to hear that Elizabeth's husband, Sam, was not wounded as he had been informed. Goodwyn expresses resignation about the duration of his imprisonment, noting his only hope for early release would be...
Dates: 1864-10-24

Letter from Charles Pollard to George Winston

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4914
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letter dated May 27, 1850, from Charles Teed Pollard to George H. Winston. It offers Winston a position as an agent of the West Point Company and notes the terms of employment, including a salary of four hundred dollars per year. The document ends with a statement of Pollard's authority to offer the job to Winston through a majority of the West Point shareholders.

Dates: 1850-05-27

Letter from Reuben Chapman to Septimus D. Cabaniss

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4716
Scope and Contents This signed letter by former Congressman and Confederate diplomat Reuben Chapman, is addressed to Alabama lawyer and former Confederate officer Septimus Douglass Cabaniss. Written on February 5, 1869, from Sumter County, Alabama, the letter discusses Chapman's interactions with freedmen sharecroppers, his concerns about cotton prices, and various business dealings. Chapman describes purchasing the freedmen's share of the cotton crop amid concerns over price fluctuations and their growing...
Dates: 1869-02-05

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

Letters to Laura Pullen

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2125
Abstract

Letters to Laura Pullen in Leighton, Alabama, from her husband R.B. Pullen in Tennessee and from Dora, a friend or family member. The letters discuss travel and family.

Dates: 1895

Lewis May Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0934
Abstract

November 1808 letter to Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. agent to the Creek Indians in Alabama and Georgia, regarding a claim for compensation for a stolen horse.

Dates: 1808-11

Lewis Parrish Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1104
Abstract

A letter dated 26 July 1850, to J. R. Koogler, which discusses the people, countryside, and business prospects of Livingston, Alabama.

Dates: 1850-07-26

Lewis Sewall Court Document

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4392
Scope and Contents This 1817 court document, issued by Lewis Sewall in the Mississippi Territory (present-day Alabama), orders the seizure of property belonging to minors identified as orphans. The document provides insight into early territorial legal proceedings, property rights, and the judicial system's role in managing estates of minors. It serves as a resource for researchers studying legal history, guardianship laws, and the administration of orphaned individuals' assets in the early ninteenth-century...
Dates: 1817

Lillian Graves Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4316
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of twelve letters written by governess Lillian Graves from October 1885 through February 1886 as Graves cared for the Woodward family children in post-Civil War Alabama. Graves describes daily and holiday activities in late nineteenth-century Alabama, visiting the Woodward Iron Company mine, and makes extensive and problematic remarks about African Americans living in the Woodward home and in the area.

Dates: 1885-10 - 1886-02

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

Lister Hill papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0670
Abstract

Subject files, correspondence, reports, and other materials by, to, and about this Alabama senator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1923- 1938 and the U. S. Senate from 1938-1969.

Dates: 1921-1968

Lena E. Lockhart papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0871
Abstract

Autobiographical sketch, inspirational materials, the papers "Woman's Part in Making Alabama History - the Past" presented to the Thomaston, Marengo County, Alabama Study Club, which focuses on female educators, and "History of The Thomaston Parent-Teacher Association", as well as a history of Thomaston, Alabama, by Alma Jean Compton, and materials relating to teaching.

Dates: 1951-1963

S. D. Logan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0873
Abstract

A handmade book celebrating the 25th wedding anniversary of S. D. Logan and his wife Ivey and a Centreville, Alabama, newspaper from 1936

Dates: 1898-1936

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

Longview Agricultural Club Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0876
Abstract

A collection containing meeting minutes of this Russell County, Alabama farmers' organizatipn, 1890-92, including the attendance roll and information on crop production and exhibitions.

Dates: 1890 - 1892

Lorraine Standish Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1636
Abstract

Columns, poems, songs, and other materials of this Lillian, Alabama, poet and songwriter.

Dates: 1970 - 2010

Lou Walls Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1519
Abstract

A collection of materials, including many photographs, on the University of Alabama dancers, 1964-86.

Dates: 1964 - 1986

Louis D. Corson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0360
Abstract

Papers of the former University of Alabama Dean of Men.

Dates: 1956-02-03 - 1956-09-14

William M. Lowe and John A. Logan newspaper clippings scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2767
Abstract

This collection contains newspaper clippings concerning a feud between Representative William M. Lowe of Alabama and Senator John A. Logan of Illinois.

Dates: 1866 November - 1879 May

Loyalty Oath of C.R.W. Glover

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5025
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a single, completed Loyalty Oath taken by C.R.W. Glover in Madison County, Alabama, dated November 5, 1872. The document affirms Glover's renewed loyalty to the United States following the Civil War. The text includes Glover’s oath to support the U.S. Constitution, the Union, and emancipation laws and proclamations. This document offers valuable insight into the early Reconstruction period and the reintegration of former Confederate citizens into the political and...
Dates: 1872-11-05

Lucien Owen Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1085
Abstract

A letter dated 8 October 1857, from a student at the University of Alabama to his father, which dicusses student life.

Dates: 1857-10-08

Autherine Lucy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0881
Abstract

Court documents dealing with a suit brought by Autherine Lucy and Polly Anne Myers against The University of Alabama, as well as an invitation to her 1956 wedding and a newspaper clipping written when she graduated from UA with her master's degree in elementary education.

Dates: 1953 - 1957

Cabot Lull papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0884
Abstract

Correspondence, financial records, legal documents and to a lesser extent newspaper clippings, photographs and various miscellaneous material relating to personal, business, political, and official matters of this former blockade runner and Elmore County merchant and probate judge.

Dates: 1816 - 1935; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1912

Lumsden's Battery battle flag, Alabama Light Artillery, Confederate States Army

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3719
Abstract

Battle flag of Lumsden's Battery, Company "F", 2nd Light Artillery Battalion.

Dates: between 1861 and 1865

Presidents Nathaniel T. Lupton, Josiah Gorgas, and William S. Wyman Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-249
Abstract

This record group contains a letterbook with correspondence to and from three Unversity of Alabama presidents, Nathaniel T. Lupton, Josiah Gorgas, and William S. Wyman, from 1871 to 1879.

Dates: 1871 - 1879

Luther Maxwell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0932
Abstract

Personal and business papers of this Tuscaloosa merchant, 1921-31.

Dates: 1921 - 1931

Marjorie W. Lynch papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0888
Abstract

Contains health care and hospital records, along with speeches, chronological files, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: unknown

M. Carolyn Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1292
Abstract

The collection contains material created and gathered as research for "A North Alabama Country Boy's Journey into the World of Nuclear Technology." Written for Professor Gary Mills at the University of Alabama, the paper is about Lester Elkin Burkhart, who worked in the United States atomic energy program.

Dates: 1982

Mable B. Murphy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1032
Abstract

This collections contains two letters to Murphy, agendas for guidance committee meetings and teacher in-service programs, a bibliography of guidance literature for African-American students, and a 1961 club schedule for Cobb Avenue High School.

Dates: 1953 - 1969

Macon and Miles Abernathy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0003
Abstract

This collection consists Abernathy family correspondence discussing the outbreak of the Civil War and the return of Macon, a University of Alabama student, to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, to enlist in a local company. Also contains an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles W. Abernathy.

Dates: 1861 - 1878

Hugh Mallory Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2649
Abstract

Letter written by Hugh Mallory of Selma, Alabama, on August 15, 1932 to an unidentified person asking for names of others in the recipient's community whom Mallory could contact regarding the use of the highways by busses and trucks being operated for personal profit. Also included is a letter to the State Legistlature requesting that body to regulate such usage.

Dates: 1932

"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

Manly Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0900
Abstract

Includes the papers of Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, 1837-1855, and a founder of Furman University, which reflect the history of the period as well as his life as theologian and educator. It also contains materials created and gathered by other Manly family members, including his sons Basil and Charles, president of Furman University, 1881-1897.

Dates: 1818 - 1930

Mrs. Robert A. Mann paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0902
Abstract

Typescript paper titled, "Historical Sketch of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Bullock County, East Alabama Presbytery," covering the history of the church from 1837 to 1929, and letter from John Rankin McLure regarding the paper.

Dates: unknown

Joseph C. Manning letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3818
Abstract

Letters showing Manning's efforts to stop the disenfranchisement of African American voters in Alabama in early twentieth century.

Dates: 1902 - 1912; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1906

Marie Ball Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3472
Abstract

Newspaper clipping from 1954, a letter from 1894, and an unpublished manuscript about the early history of Tuscaloosa from 1874-1897

Dates: 1950

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

Marion, Alabama, Democratic Party Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3896
Abstract

One Tally Sheet and one Certificate of Results for the offices of Mayor, Councilmen, and members of the City Democratic Executive Committee

Dates: 1932 May 31

Marion and Cahaba Railroad Company Receipt

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0910
Abstract

A receipt dated 1 April 1862 for freight costs on one horse from J. S. Smith.

Dates: 1862-04-01

Marion L. Oakley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3625
Abstract

Photographs, dance cards, letters, reports for grades, and a reunion paper

Dates: 1912 - 1966

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Lee, Nelle Harper (1926-2016) 6
Alabama Historical Association 5
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University of Alabama. Board of Trustees 5
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Alabama. Army National Guard 4
Cather, James Patrick 4
Confederate States of America. Army 4
Freemasons 4
Gallalee, John M. 4
Garland, Landon C. (Landon Cabell) (1810-1895) 4
Hoole, William Stanley 4
Jemison, Robert, Jr. 4
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 4
Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry) 4
Shorter, John Gill 4
Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company 4
Tutwiler, Julia 4
University of Alabama. "Million Dollar Band" 4
University of Alabama. Department of Music 4
University of Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research 4
William Reese Company (Vendor) 4
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Bibb, William Wyatt 3
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Bryce, Peter 3
Clay, Clement Comer 3
Davis, Jefferson 3
Denny, George Hutcheson 3
Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray) 3
Episcopal Church 3
Geological Survey of Alabama 3
Hargrove, Andrew Coleman 3
Howard, Elizabeth 3
Howard, Ronald 3
Johnston, Joseph Forney 3
Jones, Thomas Goode (1844-1914) 3
Manly, Basil 3
McCorvey, Thomas Chalmers 3
Pickens, Israel 3
Robinson, Jimmy 3
Rose, Frank Anthony 3
Smith, Eugene Allen 3
Strode, Hudson 3
Tuscaloosa Public LIbrary 3
United Confederate Veterans 3
United Daughters of the Confederacy 3
United Klans of America 3
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 3
University of Alabama. Army ROTC 3
University of Alabama. National Alumni Association 3
University of Alabama. School of Law 3
Van de Graaff, Adrian Sebastian 3
Wyman, William Stokes 3
Abercrombie, John William, 1866-1940 2
Adams, Oscar W. 2
Alabama A & M University 2
Alabama Central Female College (Tuscaloosa, Ala) 2
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company 2
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame 2
American Red Cross 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
Birmingham News 2
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Brandon, William Woodward 2
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Collier, H. W. (Henry Watkins) 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 1st 2
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