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Alabama Alumni Association, Cornerstone Committee

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0018
Overview This collection includes a committee report; a list of donors to the Crimson Pride membership drive, 1986-1987; histories of the national alumni association and local chapters; information on the rededication of Denny Chimes in 1987; newspaper clippings about coaches Ray Perkins and Paul "Bear" Bryant; and other information on the history and alumni of the University of Alabama.
Dates: 1888 - 1987

Alabama Homes Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-001
Overview 219 color photographs depicting Alabama homes.
Dates: 1970 - 1979

American railroad station plans

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Identifier: MSS-3747
Overview Over 140 original plans of train stations from the late nineteen and early twentieth centuries, primarily on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Most are in ink on waxed architect's paper and are variously sized.
Dates: 1881-1942

Audubon Place (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) Historic District collection

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Identifier: MSS-0094
Overview A collection of information compiled in 1981 in the process of applying for historic designation for this Tuscaloosa, Alabama district. It includes historical data, newspaper clippings about houses, lists of previous owners, special features of houses, floor plans, and an historical inventory of various homes.
Dates: 1981-1985

Bert Neville collection of steamboat documents

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Identifier: MSS-1342
Abstract A collection of bills of lading and receipts for freight costs, passage, storage, and other documents, relating to steamboat lines, mostly within Alabama, plus some receipts from stagecoaches, warehouse and storage companies, and railroads.
Dates: 1820-1945

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

Roy E. Blair reports

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Identifier: MSS-0170
Abstract Reports assessing the archeological and cultural significance of various sites in Alabama.
Dates: 1978-1979

Bluff Park United Methodist Church records

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Identifier: MSS-0178
Overview A collection of financial records, membership rolls, church directories, and the floor plan of this Methodist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates: 1978-1981

Byrd LeRoy Architectural Rendering, Health Sciences Research Building, University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama

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Identifier: MSS-4222
Overview Large architectural rendering of the new Health Sciences Research Building at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama (now the University of Alabama in Birmingham).
Dates: 1957

C. Robert Churchill Collection Photographs

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Identifier: 2008-001
Overview In 1938, the University of Alabama acquired the personal library of Thomas Payne Thomson, a New Orleans businessman and bibliophile: Houses in Louisiana circa 1915.
Dates: 1913 - 1915

John H. Caldwell papers

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Identifier: MSS-0258
Overview Business correspondence, legal papers, and reports of land agent for state of Alabama. Does not cover his entire term, 1879-1902.
Dates: 1886-1902

Capehart-Rains Project Photographs

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Identifier: 2012-016
Abstract This collection of five color photographs showing different types of airman’s residence in Tennessee, Texas, and Florida. This is a part of the Caiphart-Rains project.
Dates: Unknown

Commercial and Vernacular Photographs of Mexico City and Its Environs

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Identifier: 2020-003
Overview One photographic album containing 124 silver gelatin prints depicting a trip to Mexico City and the surrounding area by an unknown photographer.
Dates: circa 1900

Alabama Hall of Fame collection on the nomination of Clarence William Daugette

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Identifier: MSS-0035
Overview Materials relating to the nomination of Clarence William Daugette (1873-1942) to the Alabama Hall of Fame. Daugette served for forty-three years as president of Jacksonville State Teachers' College.
Dates: 1954

Denny Chimes Renovation papers

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Identifier: MSS-0429
Abstract Materials relating to the 1986 renovation of the University of Alabama bell tower and the fund drive to purchase a new 25-bell carillon, kept by Sandee Gibson. The collection includes a fund drive notebook, photographs of the restoration and rededication, and an information pack for fundraisers.
Dates: undated

Dr. James Anderson Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-002
Overview This collection consists of seven photographs of the University of Alabama Centennial Pageant at the Denny Stadium.
Dates: 1931-05-11

Eugene Allen Smith Glass Negatives

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Identifier: 2007-005
Overview This collection consists of glass plate negatives depicting Eugene Allen Smith's geological survey trips; various scenes from the University of Alabama campus, building the Smith Hall, Central Iron & Coal in Holt, Alabama, and mining sites, museum artifacts, maps, pages from books, and his family.
Dates: 1861 - 1932

Eugene Allen Smith papers

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Identifier: MSS-1286
Overview Contains field notes, correspondence letters, receipts, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorandum, notebooks, copy of the Crimson White (Commencement edition), and dinner guest list for E.A. Smith's 70th birthday party.
Dates: 1837-1921

Eugene Allen Smith Photographs

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Identifier: 2008-024
Abstract This collection consist of two hundred and sixty nine photographs depicting buildings around The University of Alabama campus; Tombigbee and other river's in Alabama; trains; Eugene Allen Smith house on campus and his family; Alabama State Capitol; steamboats; University of Alabama baseball team; scene's from University of Mississippi; and scene's from Wetumka Penitentiary.
Dates: 1813 - 1927

James M. Faircloth papers

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Identifier: MSS-0500
Overview Includes student papers and personal papers of J. M. Faircloth, a professor of civil engineering at The University of Alabama during the years 1961 through 1969.
Dates: 1961-1969

"Origin of Fort Toulouse" essay

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Identifier: MSS-0528
Overview An essay on the history of Fort Toulouse, constructed in 1717 near Wetumpka, Alabama
Dates: after 1900

Geological Survey of Alabama Photographs

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Identifier: 2007-002
Overview This collection consists of 531 photographs documenting Alabama Geological Survey field trips and the growth of the University of Alabama campus from the 1880s through 1930s.
Dates: 1885 - 1938; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1930

Gorgas Family Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-014
Abstract Collection consists of forty-nine photographs of William Crawford Gorgas (1854 - 1920) family, son of Josiah and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. Collection includes formal portraits of William Crawford Gorgas from infancy to adulthood, wife Marie, daughter Aileen and her children, Amelia Gayle Gorgas, friends of the Gorgas family, and interior and exterior scenes of the Gorgas homes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Cuba and Panama. Collection also includes a portrait photograph entitled "Hood's Children" that...
Dates: 1854 - 1920

Wade Hall Collection of Stereocards

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Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Dates: 1874 - 1950

Ralph Hammond Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0614
Abstract Ralph Hammond was the author of numerous books, press secretary to Alabama governor James ("Big Jim") Folsom, and poet laureate of Alabama from 1992 to 1995. This collection contains clippings, correspondence, legislative documents, recordings, photographs, negatives, poetry, memorabilia, and other items related to his activities, including a large number of materials about the Folsom administration and about antebellum mansions in Alabama.
Dates: 1815-2008

Harold M. McLemore Photographic Album

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Identifier: 2012-012
Abstract Scrapbook compiled by Harold McLemore (UA, BA 1980) of nineteenth-century Alabama courthouses in Lee, St. Clair, Talladega, Perry, Coosa, Wilcox, Bullock, Greene, Lowndes, Chambers, Colbert and Pickens counties. Photographs are accompanied by stories and newspaper clippings regarding various courthouses.
Dates: 1890

Harry Neal Eddins Family Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-010
Abstract Collection consists of eighty-seven photographs of Eddins family of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Largely portraits of family members, snapshots of family and friends, and the Eddins home. Includes photographs of a young Hudson Strode and an architectural drawing of the Hendricks's home on the University of Alabama.
Dates: 1890 - 1960

W. E. Hobson, Jr. papers

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Identifier: MSS-0684
Abstract A large collection of scrapbooks, containing twenty-nine volumes of information on the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area, one volume on historic Tuscaloosa homes, one volume of political information and two volumes on local history.
Dates: 1938-1966

J.D. Hughes papers

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Identifier: MSS-3541
Overview Floor plans with some detailed drawings, foundation plans, and elevations for approximately 400 house designs by this Birmingham, Alabama, designer
Dates: unknown

Marie Ball Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-003
Overview This collection consists of twenty-seven photographs of Tuscaloosa area scenes, including the Washington Moody House before and after restoration, the Homan Home, and Alvin Hudson's photographs of Tuscaloosa trolleys.
Dates: 1934 - 1977

The Molton Apartments, Birmingham, Alabama, Year 1913

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Identifier: MSS-3717
Overview Booklet about the Molton Apartments in Birmingham, Alabama, built in 1913, describing the apartments and their conveniences.
Dates: 1913

University of Alabama, Frank M. Moody Music Building articles

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Identifier: MSS-3702
Overview Articles covering the construction and dedication of the Frank M. Moody Music Building on the University of Alabama campus in 1987 and 1988.
Dates: 1987-1988

Myrtis Parker Handley Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-016
Abstract Collection consists of thirty-eight photographs of students and teachers at Mt. Olive School in Mt. Olive, Alabama, where Handley was a teacher.
Dates: 1947 - 1963

Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Alabama Photographs

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Identifier: 2007-003
Abstract This collection consists of one thousand seventy five photographs depicting street scenes in Tuscaloosa, Selma, and other cities in Alabama; portraits of famous people: Will Chambers, Augusta Evans Wilson, Margaret Zehmer Searcy, Roger Lee, Booker T. Washington, Samuel M. Stafford, George C. Wallace, Carl Elliot, Sr., Winton M. Blount, Jefferson Davis, and many others. Also collection consists of numerous images of Alabama rivers steam boats, Joe Sewell and Lou Gehrig in 1933 World Series;...
Dates: 1823 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1945

OAR Building Reports

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Identifier: MSS-3923
Overview Contains reports on and photographs of UA campus buildings that were slated for destruction.
Dates: 2012

Oscar D. Cully Jr. Photographs

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Identifier: 2010-008
Overview This collection consists of sixty-seven photographs of the University of Alabama campus and buildings, a scene of the downtown Tuscaloosa parade, and Nitrate Plant No. 2 with Wilson Dam in the background.
Dates: 1935 - 1936

Partlow House Restoration Photographs

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Identifier: 2013-031
Abstract Twenty photographs of Partlow house restoration.
Dates: 1900

Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers

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Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates: 1833-1889

J. D. Sutter papers

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Identifier: MSS-1372
Overview Contains the plans, letters, lists of supplies needed, and other personal notes of J.D. Sutter, a landscape contractor in Birmingham, Alabama, from the late 1920s through the 1950s.
Dates: 1928-1961

Sydnia Keene Smyth Antebellum Architecture of Tuscaloosa Photographs

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Identifier: 2007-006
Overview This collection consists of thirty-two photographs of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, antebellum architecture, taken by Sydnia Keene Smyth for her thesis in 1929.
Dates: 1929

United States Capitol collection

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Identifier: MSS-1474
Overview Books, letters, articles, and descriptions about the architecture, art, and location of the United States Capitol from the 1950's.
Dates: 1950-1960's

University of Alabama Souvenir Photographic Albums

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Identifier: 2012-028
Abstract Contains two souvenir photograph albums from University of Alabama showing the campus and buildings, including Garland-Clark-Manly, Morgan, Comer, Smith (interior and exterior), Woods, President's Mansion, and fraternity houses. Twenty-six photographs (five color, twenty-one black and white) of students and campus buildings throughout the 1910s, 1930s, and 1968, including: Bibb Graves Hall, Morgan Hall, Tutwiler Dorm, Gorgas House, President’s Mansion, Bryce entrance, Union building, Quad and...
Dates: 1910 - 1968

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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Identifier: 2009-144
Abstract This collection consists of ninety-four photographs depicting scenes from Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Massachusetts and Canada.
Dates: 1940 - 1949

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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Identifier: 2009-013
Abstract This collection consists of ten black and white photographs depicting unidentified people and places as well as scenes of Daytona Speedway, Peace Bridge at the United State and Canada border, and scenes from Wyoming.
Dates: 1920 - 1940

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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Identifier: 2009-016
Scope and Contents This collection consists of three black and white photographs depicting unidentified people.
Dates: 1900 - 1909

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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Identifier: 2009-017
Scope and Contents This collection consists of seven black and white photographs depicting unidentified people outside of City Hall building in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Dates: 1917

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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Identifier: 2009-053
Abstract Collection consists of twenty-five images depicting New York City, New York in 1913.
Dates: 1913

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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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

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Identifier: 2009-026
Abstract This collection consists of seventy-seven black and white photographs depicting scenes, mostly from Tampa, Florida; from Louisville, Kentucky, Litchfield, Illinois, Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan. Most of the people are unidentified, some are identified.
Dates: 1900 - 1923

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

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Identifier: 2009-047
Abstract This collection consists of thirty-eight black and white photographs depicting scenes from Panama.
Dates: 1935 - 1937