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Bessemer Civic Music Club records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0144
Abstract

Collection of items relating to this club from Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, including programs, press releases, clippings, etc.

Dates: 1949-1954

Bessemer Coal, Iron, and Land Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0145
Abstract

This collection contains much of the business correspondence and records of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Company, including lists of stock holders, minutes of meetings, maps of mine sites, and correspondence with government entities.

Dates: 1886-1982

Beta Phi Mu, Beta Kappa Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0147
Abstract

Correspondence, bank records, scrapbooks, meeting agendas, and minutes, of the University of Alabama chapter of the National Library and Information Studies honorary.

Dates: 1975-1990

Bethany Baptist Church, Buhl, Alabama, records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0149
Abstract

Contains original and photocopies of the church records books of Bethany Baptist Church of Buhl (now at Coker), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, dating from 1832 to 1981, including the Articles of Faith, Rules of Decorum, members names, pastor’s salary, and the constitution of the Bethany Baptist Church.

Dates: 1832 - 1981

Bethel Presbyterian Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0151
Abstract

Contains “Historical Sketch of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Bullock County, East Alabama Presbytery.” It is dated June 12, 1958, and is six pages in length. Includes a list the tenure of pastors, texts of building dedications, and description of the Presbyterian Church hierarchy.

Dates: 1850-1958; Majority of material found in 1900 - 1900

Peyton B. Bibb papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0153
Abstract

Documents, mainly letters written to or by Peyton B. Bibb. There are also receipts and minutes from unidentified meetings. There is also a copy of the “Complete Rudiments of Music” by A.J. Showalter (©1906) with the name “George Bibb” written on the front cover and on the first page.

Dates: 1886–1906

Hugo F. Biedermann papers

 Collection — Box: 5041
Identifier: MSS-0155
Abstract

The collection includes copies of patents granted Biedermann, as well as contracts and some scattered miscellaneous papers. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of projects worked on by the firm of Skinner and Biedermann, including the Anniston Army Depot and many buildings on the University of Alabama campus, including the Engineering building, Lloyd Hall, Denny Chimes, Denny Stadium, Doster Hall, Graves Hall, and others.

Dates: circa 1940s

Big Creek Baptist Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0156
Abstract

Deed for land, lists of members, and monthly meeting minutes of this Baptist church in Coker, Alabama.

Dates: 1821 - 1913

Bill and Doris Leapard Collection of Nelle Harper Lee Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4210
Abstract

The collection consists of two notecards from Nelle Harper Lee, the book John Singer Sargent by Carter Ratcliff, and a pair of Airoldi earrings in the shape of leopard heads with the original Brighton jewelry bag in which they were sent. The materials were gifts to the Leapards from Nelle Harper Lee.

Dates: circa 1980s

Bill of Sale for Enslaved Man Named Zeke

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0012
Abstract

Bill of sale and warrantee for an enslaved person, Zeke, sold by W. S. Adkins of Lowndes County, Alabama, for $1600. The buyer's name is illegible.

Dates: 1860-02-16

Billie Jean Young Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3417
Abstract

The collection contains materials related to Billie Jean Young's one-woman show Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light… and other materials produced and gathered by Young.

Dates: 1983 - 2002

Walter P. Billings newspaper clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0157
Abstract

Several newspaper clippings relating to the trial of several white men for the murder of Walter P. Billings, an African-America resident of Sumter County, Alabama, on 1 August 1874, and also a lengthy jury charge by U.S. Circuit Court Judge Ballard decrying violence used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations against African-Americans.

Dates: 1873

Birmingham Coal and Coke Company shipping records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0160
Abstract

Ledger of shipping records including destinations, prices and kinds of coal, dates, etc.

Dates: 1920-1923

Birmingham Dental College minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0161
Abstract

A collection of board minutes, including some organizational information.

Dates: 1893-1899

Birmingham Examiner financial records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0162
Abstract

Financial records ledger and checkbook from this Birmingham, Alabama, newspaper

Dates: 1963-1964

Birmingham News Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-007
Abstract

This collection consists of photographs depicting the Alabama football, basketball, and civil rights movement in the 1950s.

Dates: 1835 - 1974

Birmingham Printing Pressman's Union minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0163
Abstract

One ledger that records the association's meetings from 1913-1916.

Dates: 1913-1916

Birmingham Real Estate Board banquet program

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0164
Abstract

Part of the program and text of the 1940 annual banquet of the Birmingham Real Estate Board, held on 16 January 1941.

Dates: 1941 January 16

Charlie J. Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Abstract

Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.

Dates: 1985-1987

John Blackwell deed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0168
Abstract

A deed recording a transfer of land in Montgomery County, Alabama, dated 25 September 1828, from John Blackwell to Thomas Mastin.

Dates: 1828 September 25

Henry Conrad Blanford papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0171
Abstract

Bound prayer book and related materials dealing with this Lay Reader of the Episcopal Church's healing missions in Anniston and Ensley, Alabama.

Dates: 1920-1922

George H. Blelock letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0173
Abstract

A letter dated 21 June 1865 to Capt. J. M. Cary of Chunnenuggee, Alabama. Blelock, a publisher in New York, offered "the most liberal terms" for the future literary productions of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) (1835-1909), an immensely popular sentimental novelist.

Dates: 1865 June 21

John H. Blitz report

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0174
Abstract

A Cultural Resources Report by Blitz on the archaeological significance of the proposed site for a poultry processing plant in Cullman County, Alabama.

Dates: 1978

Blocton, Alabama Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-004
Abstract

This collection consists of nine photographs of Italian - Americans living in Blocton, Alabama. Photographs were used in the fall 1986 Alabama Heritage article.

Dates: 1900 - 1938

Winton M. Blount papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0176
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of this Montgomery, Alabama, business leader, during his term as United States Postmaster General (1969-1971).

Dates: 1956-2004

Sarah Blue collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0177
Abstract

A collection of items, most of them relative to the 1915 high school graduation of Sarah Blue of Union Springs, Alabama, including a keepsake book, “My Golden School Days.”

Dates: 1894-circa 1915

Bluff Park United Methodist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0178
Abstract

A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1978-1981

Janette Goldstein Blum Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3913
Abstract

Scrapbooks, print materials, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Blum and her time at the University of Alabama

Dates: circa 1930s

Erline Bodine papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0179
Abstract

An amalgam of genealogical research done by Bodine into the Bodine and Pate families, and a copy of a letter to Alabama Governor Guy Hunt, dated 21 March 1987, claiming damages of “about 160 A[cres] and one billion dollars” owing to a “stragedy” [sic] concocted by “Big Jim” [Fulsom?] and Franklin Roosevelt “to help the nation with my family’s resources.”

Dates: undated

Bogy and Smith Families genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract

A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.

Dates: undated

Boling Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0181
Abstract

Correspondence, receipts, mortgages, wills, indentures, and other materials concerning the property and affairs of the Boling and Saffold families of Hayneville, Lowndes County, Alabama.

Dates: 1833-1870

Bone Camp Methodist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0184
Abstract

This collection contains the constitution, membership lists, articles of faith, rules of decorum, records of church activities 1843-1904, and church register, 1862-1935, giving lists of members and of pastors of this Methodist church in Northport, Alabama.

Dates: 1843-1935

Dr. Bonner letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0185
Abstract

Thermo-fax copy of letter dated 19 October 1958 by Dr. Bonner to Professor James H. Newman, executive vice-president University of Alabama, summarizing Bonner's trip to England, also a brief letter dated 21 October by Newman to W.S. Hoole, to whom he forwarded Bonner's letter.

Dates: 1958

Bonney and Bush and Bush and Lobdell collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0186
Abstract

Letters to the machinery manufactures Booney and Bush, and Bush and Lobdell, both of Wilmington, Delaware, concerning machinery, cotton gins, and business conditions in Alabama, 1836-1843.

Dates: 1836-1843

Buford Boone papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract

Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968

Bootlegging Court records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0188
Abstract

One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.

Dates: 1871-1881

Franklin Welsh Bowdon letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0191
Abstract

A letter dated 24 October 1835, from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa to the editor of the Weekly Globe requesting a six-month subscription to the newspaper.

Dates: 1835 October 24

Boyd family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0194
Abstract

Photocopies of various documents and letters relating to Alfred Boyd (1814-82) and his descendants as well as a typescript history of the family of Joel Willis, Sr., and a typescript paper by Bruce L. Bennett of Ohio State University titled, "Sports and Physical Education in Colonial Times."

Dates: 1816-1943; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1859

L.O. Brackeen paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0451
Abstract

Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.

Dates: 1962 April 26

J. M. Bradshaw Farm Journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3693
Abstract

The journals of this Luverne, Alabama, farmer.

Dates: 1912-1916

Walter Lawrence Bragg letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0200
Abstract

Copies of incoming letters dated 1881-1882, from the Alabama state archives.

Dates: 1881-1882

Gerard C. Brandon letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0204
Abstract

Letter from the Governor of Mississippi to Alabama Governor John Murphy regarding an unsettled financial transaction between the two states.

Dates: 1828 October 29

Brandon Memorial United Methodist Church records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0202
Abstract

Lists of members, pastors, marriages, baptisms, and deceased members, as well as church directories of this Methodist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1911-1991

William Woodward Brandon papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0203
Abstract

Documents concerning Alabama governor William Woodward Brandon, including letters, news clippings, postcards, and transcripts of speeches.

Dates: 1920-1935

Branscomb Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4017
Abstract

Letters, land grants, diplomas, certificates, scrapbook, daguerreotype, and other miscellaneous documents, as well as quilts and other textiles (including a wedding dress from the early 20th century)

Dates: after 1865

Brant Crawley Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-206
Abstract

Collection consists of twenty-nine photographs of Sardis Cemetery in Bullock County, Alabama.

Dates: 1993

Charity Sophia Rutland Brett commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0206
Abstract

Mid-nineteenth-century combination cookbook and scrapbook that includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," and a "remedy for cholera," among others.

Dates: 1851-1856

George E. Brewer letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0207
Abstract

Two typescript copies of a 1919 letter describing Bird H. Young who was the model for nineteenth century author Johnson J. Hooper's (1815-62) character Simon Suggs.

Dates: 1919 October 15

Glenda Brewer research paper

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0208
Abstract

Research paper titled "Integration at the University of Alabama," submitted for seminar in African American history at the University of Alabama in 1975.

Dates: 1975

Brewster and Conley sales records

 Collection
Identifier: W-0075
Abstract

Contains the sales records from 1838 to 1846 of Brewster and Conley, a buggy and carriage manufacturing company located in antebellum Mobile, Alabama.

Dates: 1838 - 1846

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University of Alabama. "Million Dollar Band" 4
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United Confederate Veterans 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
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Blackburn, John L. 2
Brandon, William Woodward 2
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Carmichael, Oliver C. (Oliver Cromwell) 2
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