Showing Collections: 1 - 50 of 68
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
Collection
Identifier: 2010-001
Overview
219 color photographs depicting Alabama homes.
Dates:
1970 - 1979
American railroad station plans
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
Identifier: 2014-004
Abstract
Collection consists of 1708 stereocards depicting scenes from all over the world.
Dates:
1874 - 1950
Ralph Hammond Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
Identifier: 2013-031
Abstract
Twenty photographs of Partlow house restoration.
Dates:
1900
Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
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: 2009-026
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
Collection
Identifier: 2009-047
Abstract
This collection consists of thirty-eight black and white photographs depicting scenes from Panama.
Dates:
1935 - 1937
Filtered By
- Subject: Architecture X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Names
- Hall, Wade 23
- University of Alabama 13
- Cather & Brown Books 2
- Smith, Eugene Allen 2
- Alabama Hall of Fame 1
- Audubon Place Historic District (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1
- Biedermann, Hugo F. 1
- Blair, Roy E. 1
- Bluff Park United Methodist Church (Birmingham, Ala.) 1
- Bryant, Paul W. 1
- Caldwell, John H. (John Henry) 1
- Coffee, John 1
- Crawford, Sarah Ann Gayle 1
- Crawford, William Bones 1
- Daugette, Clarence William 1
- F. A. Bernett, Inc. 1
- Faircloth, James M. (James Manning) 1
- Folsom, James Elisha 1
- Ford, Gene 1
- Geological Survey of Alabama 1
- Gorgas family 1
- Gorgas, Amelia Gayle 1
- Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883 1
- Hammond, Ralph 1
- Handley, Myrtis Parker 1
- Hobson, W. E., Jr. 1
- J. D. Hughes Designers 1
- LeRoy, Byrd 1
- Lee, Nelle Harper (1926-2016) 1
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company 1
- Madison, Dolley 1
- Molton Hotel (Birmingham, Ala.) 1
- Moody, Frank M. 1
- Perkins, Ray 1
- Smith, Eugene A. 1
- Smyth, Sydnia Keene 1
- Taylor, Zachary 1
- Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1
- United Methodist Church (U.S.) 1
- United States Capitol Collection 1
- University of Alabama. Alumni Association. Cornerstone Committee 1
- University of Alabama. Medical Center 1
- University of Alabama. National Alumni Association 1
- University of Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research 1
- Van Keuren, Davis & Company 1
- Walls, Sara 1
- Walls, Sarah Louise 1
- Wheeler, E. Todd (Edward Todd), 1906- 1 ∧ less
∨ more